[PATCH RFC 0/5] Remove some notrace RCU APIs

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Sat May 25 13:24:58 AEST 2019


On Fri, 24 May 2019 19:49:28 -0400
"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel at joelfernandes.org> wrote:

> The series removes users of the following APIs, and the APIs themselves, since
> the regular non - _notrace variants don't do any tracing anyway.
>  * hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace
>  * rcu_dereference_raw_notrace
> 

I guess the difference between the _raw_notrace and just _raw variants
is that _notrace ones do a rcu_check_sparse(). Don't we want to keep
that check?

-- Steve


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