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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:35:28 +0000 (04:35 -0800)
commit6a652ed941aa3e31a645c4074ef2a80b2535f5b9
tree55955016d3f34831d9f0a53b0b656134620129d4
parentc9dc142b39a89e4bb29beaa92740413863fadca2
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded

[ Upstream commit 16052dd5bdfa16dbe18d8c1d4cde2ddab9d23177 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/trace/trace.h