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Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
Joel Fernandes created a nice patch that cleaned up the duplicate hooks used
by lockdep and irqsoff latency tracer. It made both use tracepoints. But it
caused lockdep to trigger several false positives. We have not figured out
why yet, but removing lockdep from using the trace event hooks and just call
its helper functions directly (like it use to), makes the problem go away.

This is a partial revert of the clean up patch c3bc8fd6 ("tracing:
Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") that adds direct
calls for lockdep, but also keeps most of the clean up done to get rid of
the horrible preprocessor if statements.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180806155058.5ee875f4@gandalf.local.home



Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Fixes: c3bc8fd6 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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