Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked

From: 王贇
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 23:09:41 EST




On 2021/10/27 上午10:55, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 10:34:13 +0800
> 王贇 <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> +/*
>> + * Preemption will be enabled (if it was previously enabled).
>> + */
>> static __always_inline void trace_clear_recursion(int bit)
>> {
>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(bit < 0);
>
> Can you send a v7 without the WARN_ON.
>
> This is an extremely hot path, and this will cause noticeable overhead.
>
> If something were to call this with bit < 0, then it would crash and
> burn rather quickly.

I see, if the problem will be notified anyway then it's fine, v7 on the way.

Regards,
Michael Wang

>
> -- Steve
>
>
>> +
>> + preempt_enable_notrace();
>> barrier();
>> trace_recursion_clear(bit);
>> }