From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org, linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] user_events: Optimize writing events by only copying data once
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 18:20:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211108182006.7b09a630@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211108231710.GA1521@kbox>
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 15:17:10 -0800
Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > Which reminds me that trace_event_buffer_reserve() expects to be called
> > with preemption disabled. And I'm guessing that may not be the case for you.
> >   
> 
> Thanks, should be good there:
> I have rcu_read_lock_sched() held, which will have preemption disabled
> during the various probe calls.
Ah, that's right. Thanks for the reminder.
> 
> > I'll change this so that it always disables preemption even if it uses the
> > filter buffer, and *always* disables preemption on return.
Even so, I think it's better to have it consistently disable/enable
preemption than expect the caller to do so.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-08 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-04 17:04 [PATCH v4 00/10] user_events: Enable user processes to create and write to trace events Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] user_events: Add UABI header for user access to user_events Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 21:34   ` kernel test robot
2021-11-08  2:32     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-11-08 16:59       ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-07 14:31   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-11-08 17:13     ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 18:16       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 20:25         ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 21:00           ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 22:09             ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 22:30               ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 22:59                 ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-09  4:58               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-11-09  2:56           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-11-09 19:08             ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-09 19:25               ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-09 20:14                 ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-09 20:45                   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-09 21:27                     ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-09 21:39                       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-10 13:56               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-11-11 17:33                 ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-12 13:40                   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2021-11-07 18:18   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 19:56     ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 20:53       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 21:15         ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] user_events: Add print_fmt generation support for basic types Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 22:03   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] user_events: Handle matching arguments from dyn_events Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 22:05   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] user_events: Add basic perf and eBPF support Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] user_events: Add self-test for ftrace integration Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] user_events: Add self-test for dynamic_events integration Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] user_events: Add self-test for perf_event integration Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] user_events: Optimize writing events by only copying data once Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 22:45   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 23:00     ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 23:04       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-11-08 23:17         ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-08 23:20           ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2021-11-04 17:04 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] user_events: Add documentation file Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 19:05   ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-11-04 21:08     ` Beau Belgrave
2021-11-04 21:18       ` Jonathan Corbet
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