tracing: Make tracepoint lockdep check actually test something
authorSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:28:56 +0000 (17:28 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:31:33 +0000 (13:31 +0100)
commit9b9a118cc428b0c598e30fa0213ede4221cd0ec5
tree39f2f3791ab202aab8d2ed24c4c7cabf4ff24e19
parent2846bf67cd2416093413fe2e01483e5191d0f320
tracing: Make tracepoint lockdep check actually test something

commit c2679254b9c9980d9045f0f722cf093a2b1f7590 upstream.

A while ago where the trace events had the following:

   rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();
   rcu_dereference_sched(...);
   rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace();

If the tracepoint is enabled, it could trigger RCU issues if called in
the wrong place. And this warning was only triggered if lockdep was
enabled. If the tracepoint was never enabled with lockdep, the bug would
not be caught. To handle this, the above sequence was done when lockdep
was enabled regardless if the tracepoint was enabled or not (although the
always enabled code really didn't do anything, it would still trigger a
warning).

But a lot has changed since that lockdep code was added. One is, that
sequence no longer triggers any warning. Another is, the tracepoint when
enabled doesn't even do that sequence anymore.

The main check we care about today is whether RCU is "watching" or not.
So if lockdep is enabled, always check if rcu_is_watching() which will
trigger a warning if it is not (tracepoints require RCU to be watching).

Note, that old sequence did add a bit of overhead when lockdep was enabled,
and with the latest kernel updates, would cause the system to slow down
enough to trigger kernel "stalled" warnings.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20140806181801.GA4605@redhat.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20140807175204.C257CAC5@viggo.jf.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230307184645.521db5c9@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230310172856.77406446@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fixes: e6753f23d961 ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/tracepoint.h