Joel Fernandes is using SRCU to protect from-idle tracepoints, which requires notrace variants of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() in order to avoid problems with tracepoints in lockdep. This commit therefore adds srcu_read_lock_notrace() and srcu_read_unlock_notrace().
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> Intermittently-reported-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> --- include/linux/srcu.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h index 91494d7e8e41..3e72a291c401 100644 --- a/include/linux/srcu.h +++ b/include/linux/srcu.h @@ -195,6 +195,16 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp) return retval; } +/* Used by tracing, cannot be traced and cannot invoke lockdep. */ +static inline notrace int +srcu_read_lock_notrace(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp) +{ + int retval; + + retval = __srcu_read_lock(sp); + return retval; +} + /** * srcu_read_unlock - unregister a old reader from an SRCU-protected structure. * @sp: srcu_struct in which to unregister the old reader. @@ -209,6 +219,13 @@ static inline void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) __srcu_read_unlock(sp, idx); } +/* Used by tracing, cannot be traced and cannot call lockdep. */ +static inline notrace void +srcu_read_unlock_notrace(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) __releases(sp) +{ + __srcu_read_unlock(sp, idx); +} + /** * smp_mb__after_srcu_read_unlock - ensure full ordering after srcu_read_unlock * -- 2.17.1
