On Mon, 22 May 2023 10:07:42 +0800
Ze Gao [off-list ref] wrote:

Oops, I missed that. Thanks for pointing that out, which I thought is
conditional use of rcu_is_watching before.

One last point, I think we should double check on this
     "fentry does not filter with !rcu_is_watching"
as quoted from Yonghong and argue whether it needs
the same check for fentry as well.

rcu_is_watching() comment says;

 * if the current CPU is not in its idle loop or is in an interrupt or
 * NMI handler, return true.

Thus it returns *fault* if the current CPU is in the idle loop and not
any interrupt(including NMI) context. This means if any tracable function
is called from idle loop, it can be !rcu_is_watching(). I meant, this is
'context' based check, thus fentry can not filter out that some commonly
used functions is called from that context but it can be detected.

Thank you,

Regards,
Ze

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [off-list ref]