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Recently we tried to make the preemptirqsoff tracer to use irqsoff tracepoint probes. However this causes issues as reported by Masami: [2.271078] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED! [2.381015] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/kernel/ trace/trace.c:1512 run_tracer_selftest+0xf3/0x154 This is due to the tracepoint code increasing the preempt nesting count by calling an additional preempt_disable before calling into the preemptoff tracer which messes up the preempt_count() check in tracer_hardirqs_off. To fix this, make the irqsoff tracer probes balance the additional outer preempt_disable with a preempt_enable_notrace. The other way to fix this is to just use SRCU for all tracepoints. However we can't do that because we can't use NMIs from RCU context. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180806034049.67949-1-joel@joelfernandes.org Fixes:c3bc8fd637("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") Fixes:e6753f23d9("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU") Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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