Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Jul 21 2023 - 12:30:33 EST


On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:06:07 +0200
Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Just because you disable interrupts does not mean you are in interrupt
> > context.
>
> Ah okay, thanks! IOW, if we want to check in some code that we're
> certainly have interrupts enabled and are not in the interrupt context,
> we must always do
>
> if (!(in_hardirq() || irqs_disabled()))
>

Yeah, probably.

> , nothing more elegant / already existing / ...?

It's not a common check. What would you call that?

irq_safe() ?

-- Steve