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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2015-11-03 01:42:42 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2015-11-03 01:52:49 +0300
commita15920bea0428cd22291637f6c72542b1843e65f (patch)
treec57eb631dec58bbe449d7f55b58b717919463dd0 /include/linux/tracepoint.h
parentc6650b2e57725abaa2e36e620d06fa576d26c21c (diff)
downloadlinux-a15920bea0428cd22291637f6c72542b1843e65f.tar.xz
tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks
The documentation on top of __DECLARE_TRACE() does not match its implementation since the condition check has been added to the RCU lockdep checks. Update the documentation to match its implementation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446504164-21563-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com CC: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Fixes: a05d59a56733 "tracing: Add condition check to RCU lockdep checks" Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tracepoint.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tracepoint.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index 6b79537a42b1..696a339c592c 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -184,10 +184,11 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
* structure. Force alignment to the same alignment as the section start.
*
* When lockdep is enabled, we make sure to always do the RCU portions of
- * the tracepoint code, regardless of whether tracing is on or we match the
- * condition. This lets us find RCU issues triggered with tracepoints even
- * when this tracepoint is off. This code has no purpose other than poking
- * RCU a bit.
+ * the tracepoint code, regardless of whether tracing is on. However,
+ * don't check if the condition is false, due to interaction with idle
+ * instrumentation. This lets us find RCU issues triggered with tracepoints
+ * even when this tracepoint is off. This code has no purpose other than
+ * poking RCU a bit.
*/
#define __DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args, cond, data_proto, data_args) \
extern struct tracepoint __tracepoint_##name; \