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    trace: Allow idle-safe tracepoints to be called from irq · d6284099
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    
    
    __DECLARE_TRACE_RCU() currently creates an _rcuidle() tracepoint which
    may safely be invoked from what RCU considers to be an idle CPU.
    However, these _rcuidle() tracepoints may -not- be invoked from the
    handler of an irq taken from idle, because rcu_idle_enter() zeroes
    RCU's nesting-level counter, so that the rcu_irq_exit() returning to
    idle will trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE().
    
    This commit therefore substitutes rcu_irq_enter() for rcu_idle_exit()
    and rcu_irq_exit() for rcu_idle_enter() in order to make the _rcuidle()
    tracepoints usable from irq handlers as well as from process context.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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