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    tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions · 0d5c6e1c
    Steven Rostedt authored
    Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
    wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
    was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
    time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
    be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
    will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
    to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).
    
    With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
    the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
    by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
    normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.
    
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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