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Date:   Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:58:13 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
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        Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 3/3] tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and
 unify their usage
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 04:50:44PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> One note, I have to check for lockdep recursion in the code that calls
> the trace events API and bail out if we're in lockdep recursion
> protection to prevent something like the following case: a spin_lock is
> taken. Then lockdep_acquired is called.  That does a raw_local_irq_save
> and then sets lockdep_recursion, and then calls __lockdep_acquired. In
> this function, a call to get_lock_stats happens which calls
> preempt_disable, which calls trace IRQS off somewhere which enters my
> tracepoint code and sets the tracing_irq_cpu flag to prevent recursion.
> This flag is then never cleared causing lockdep paths to never be
> entered and thus causing splats and other bad things.

That is now fixed, right?