[PATCH] powerpc: tracing: don't trace hcalls on offline CPUs

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 15:22 +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> On 11/3/15, Denis Kirjanov <kda at linux-powerpc.org> wrote:
> > On 11/3/15, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 22:10 +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> > > > ./drmgr -c cpu -a -r gives the following warning:
> > > > 
> > > > [ 2327.035563] RCU used illegally from offline CPU!
> > > > 
> > > > Make the hypervisor tracepoints conditional by introducing
> > > > TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND similar to TRACE_EVENT_FN
> > > 
> > > We've fixed other cases like this with RCU_NONIDLE(), but I assume that
> > > doesn't work here because we're actually offline?
> > 
> > Yes, in this case we're moving the complete core offline through dlpar...
> > 
> 
> Hi Michael,
> Could you pick this patch?

It's mostly a tracing patch, so I'd need an ACK from Steve at least.

It would probably be best if you split it into a "tracing: .. " patch which
adds the new macros and then a powerpc patch which uses them.

cheers