Tracepoints require having RCU "watching" as it uses RCU to do updates to
the tracepoints. There are some cases that would call a tracepoint when
RCU was not "watching". This was usually in the idle path where RCU has
"shutdown". For the few locations that had tracepoints without RCU
watching, there was an trace_*_rcuidle() variant that could be used. This
used SRCU for protection.
There are tracepoints that trace when interrupts and preemption are
enabled and disabled. In some architectures, these tracepoints are called
in a path where RCU is not watching. When x86 and arm64 removed these
locations, it was incorrectly assumed that it would be safe to remove the
trace_*_rcuidle() variant and also remove the SRCU logic, as it made the
code more complex and harder to implement new tracepoint features (like
faultable tracepoints and tracepoints in rust).
Instead of bringing back the trace_*_rcuidle(), as it will not be trivial
to do as new code has already been added depending on its removal, add a
workaround to the one file that still requires it (trace_preemptirq.c). If
the architecture does not define CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR, then check if
the code is in the idle path, and if so, call ct_irq_enter/exit() which
will enable RCU around the tracepoint.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241204100414.4d3e06d0@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Fixes: 48bcda6848 ("tracing: Remove definition of trace_*_rcuidle()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bddb02de-957a-4df5-8e77-829f55728ea2@roeck-us.net/
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Tested-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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