tracing/osnoise: Improve comments about barrier need for NMI callbacks

trace_osnoise_callback_enabled is used by ftrace_nmi_enter/exit()
to know when to call the NMI callback. The barrier is used to
avoid having callbacks enabled before the resetting date during
the start or to touch the values after stopping the tracer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a413b8f14aa9312fbd1ba99f96225a8aed831053.1635702894.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Clark Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: John Kacur <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index ceff407655a5..7d6be609d3dd 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -1930,8 +1930,10 @@ static int __osnoise_tracer_start(struct trace_array *tr)
 	retval = osnoise_hook_events();
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;
+
 	/*
-	 * Make sure NMIs see reseted values.
+	 * Make sure that ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() see reset values
+	 * before enabling trace_osnoise_callback_enabled.
 	 */
 	barrier();
 	trace_osnoise_callback_enabled = true;
@@ -1966,6 +1968,10 @@ static void osnoise_tracer_stop(struct trace_array *tr)
 		return;
 
 	trace_osnoise_callback_enabled = false;
+	/*
+	 * Make sure that ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() see
+	 * trace_osnoise_callback_enabled as false before continuing.
+	 */
 	barrier();
 
 	stop_per_cpu_kthreads();