From 3f379b03fbfddd20536389a85c6456f8233d1f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:03:25 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw() Replace the calls to read_barrier_depends() in ftrace_list_func() with rcu_dereference_raw() to improve readability. The reason that we use rcu_dereference_raw() here is that removed entries are never freed, instead they are simply leaked. This is one of a very few cases where use of rcu_dereference_raw() is the long-term right answer. And I don't yet know of any others. ;-) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1267830207-9474-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 8378357..8c5adc0 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include @@ -88,18 +89,22 @@ ftrace_func_t ftrace_pid_function __read_mostly = ftrace_stub; static int ftrace_set_func(unsigned long *array, int *idx, char *buffer); #endif +/* + * Traverse the ftrace_list, invoking all entries. The reason that we + * can use rcu_dereference_raw() is that elements removed from this list + * are simply leaked, so there is no need to interact with a grace-period + * mechanism. The rcu_dereference_raw() calls are needed to handle + * concurrent insertions into the ftrace_list. + * + * Silly Alpha and silly pointer-speculation compiler optimizations! + */ static void ftrace_list_func(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip) { - struct ftrace_ops *op = ftrace_list; - - /* in case someone actually ports this to alpha! */ - read_barrier_depends(); + struct ftrace_ops *op = rcu_dereference_raw(ftrace_list); /*see above*/ while (op != &ftrace_list_end) { - /* silly alpha */ - read_barrier_depends(); op->func(ip, parent_ip); - op = op->next; + op = rcu_dereference_raw(op->next); /*see above*/ }; } @@ -154,8 +159,7 @@ static int __register_ftrace_function(struct ftrace_ops *ops) * the ops->next pointer is valid before another CPU sees * the ops pointer included into the ftrace_list. */ - smp_wmb(); - ftrace_list = ops; + rcu_assign_pointer(ftrace_list, ops); if (ftrace_enabled) { ftrace_func_t func; -- 1.8.2.3