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ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 5 Feb 2020 07:17:57 +0000 (02:17 -0500)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 5 Feb 2020 22:15:57 +0000 (17:15 -0500)
commitdcfe5062c7f3ef9b8d6e011dd83081130a5583fa
tree1e1a0196c967b872befb00d64b839492bf77c54b
parent91e0c93d8eaa448237333dd4b9baaf924568a563
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded

Because the function graph tracer can execute in sections where RCU is not
"watching", the rcu_dereference_sched() for the has needs to be open coded.
This is fine because the RCU "flavor" of the ftrace hash is protected by
its own RCU handling (it does its own little synchronization on every CPU
and does not rely on RCU sched).

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace.h