Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] blktrace: switch trace spinlock to a raw spinlock

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:49:47 -0700
Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alright, fair enough, mistakes happen. I think the patch looks fine, my
> main dislike is that it's Yet Another things that needs special RT
> handling. But I guess that's how it is...

It's not really "yet another thing". That's because in general tracing
needs special RT handling (and a lot of other special handling, not
just RT). blktrace falls under the tracing category, and this just
falls under one more thing to make tracing work with RT.

-- Steve