Dave Jones reported that trinity would be able to trigger the following
back trace:
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[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
3.10.0-rc2+ #38 Not tainted
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include/linux/rcupdate.h:771 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
other info that might help us debug this:
Perf uses rcu_read_lock() but as the function tracer can trace functions
even when RCU is not currently active, this makes the rcu_read_lock()
used by perf ineffective.
As perf is currently the only user of the ftrace_ops_control_func() and
perf is also the only function callback that actively uses rcu_read_lock(),
the quick fix is to prevent the ftrace_ops_control_func() from calling
its callbacks if RCU is not active.
With Paul's new "rcu_is_watching()" we can tell if RCU is active or not.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>