Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: __update_max_tr: rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle! | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:45:02 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 08:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:56:23AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 10:51 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > > OK, I will bite. How about using something like RCU_NONIDLE(), either > > > > directly or open-coded, to make it a legal call site? > > > > > > OK, then something like: > > > > > > RCU_NONIDLE(max_data = task_uid(tsk)); > > > > > > would work when called normally or with idle? > > > > > > > The comment above RCU_NONIDLE() says: > > > > This macro may be used from process-level code only. > > > > Although I'm not sure what a 'level' is. Do you mean process-context? If > > so, then this will not work because it can be called from non process > > level code (return from interrupt), or any interrupt that enables > > interrupts. > > Yep, process context. It seems that I was naively expecting the > calls in interrupt context to be covered by rcu_irq_enter() and > rcu_irq_exit(). I take it that these calls are happening outside of > the rcu_irq_enter()-protected region?
Yep, it is called by the same hooks that lockdep uses. TRACE_IRQS_ON inside the irq handler in assembly.
-- Steve
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