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Date:   Tue, 1 May 2018 10:06:23 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v5 3/6] srcu: Add notrace variant of
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:42:01 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> wrote:

> In this series, we are making lockdep use an rcuidle tracepoint. For
> this reason we need a notrace variant of srcu_dereference since
> otherwise we get lockdep splats since lockdep hooks may not have run
> yet. This patch adds the needed variant.

This change log is rather confusing. Why would lockdep use an rcuidle
tracepoint? I think we need to explain more here.

-- Steve