Commit b3e7af60 authored by Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar Mathieu Desnoyers Committed by Kamal Mostafa

tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks

commit a15920be upstream.

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: a05d59a5 "tracing: Add condition check to RCU lockdep checks"
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent af544782
......@@ -167,10 +167,11 @@ 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; \
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