rcu: Do not trace rcu_is_watching() functions

As perf uses the rcu_read_lock() primitives for recording into its
ring buffer, perf tracing can not be called when RCU in inactive.
With the perf function tracing, there are functions that can be
traced when RCU is not active, and perf must not have its function
callback called when this is the case.

Luckily, Paul McKenney has created a way to detect when RCU is
active or not with the rcu_is_watching() function. Unfortunately,
this function can also be traced, and if that happens it can cause
a bit of overhead for the perf function calls that do the check.
Recursion protection prevents anything bad from happening, but
there is a bit of added overhead for every function being traced that
must detect that the rcu_is_watching() is also being traced.

As rcu_is_watching() is a helper routine and not part of the
critical logic in RCU, it does not need to be traced in order to
debug RCU itself. Add the "notrace" annotation to all the rcu_is_watching()
calls such that we never trace it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131104202736.72dd8e45@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutiny.c b/kernel/rcutiny.c
index 0fa061dfa55d..590c8a82aa00 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutiny.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutiny.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_irq_enter);
 /*
  * Test whether RCU thinks that the current CPU is idle.
  */
-bool __rcu_is_watching(void)
+bool notrace __rcu_is_watching(void)
 {
 	return rcu_dynticks_nesting;
 }