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[RFC,5/5] rcu: Remove rcu_dereference_raw_notrace since no users

Message ID 20190524234933.5133-6-joel@joelfernandes.org
State RFC
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Series Remove some notrace RCU APIs | expand

Commit Message

Joel Fernandes May 24, 2019, 11:49 p.m. UTC
The series removes all users of the API and with this patch, the API
itself. Also fix documentation.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
---
 Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 6 +++---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h                                | 9 ---------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
index 5a9238a2883c..9727278893e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
@@ -2512,9 +2512,9 @@  disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section.
 <p>
 It is possible to use tracing on RCU code, but tracing itself
 uses RCU.
-For this reason, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw_notrace()</tt>
-is provided for use by tracing, which avoids the destructive
-recursion that could otherwise ensue.
+This is the other reason for using, <tt>rcu_dereference_raw()</tt>,
+for use by tracing, which avoids the destructive recursion that could
+otherwise ensue.
 This API is also used by virtualization in some architectures,
 where RCU readers execute in environments in which tracing
 cannot be used.
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 922bb6848813..f917a27fc115 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -472,15 +472,6 @@  static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) { }
 	__rcu_dereference_check((p), (c) || rcu_read_lock_sched_held(), \
 				__rcu)
 
-/*
- * The tracing infrastructure traces RCU (we want that), but unfortunately
- * some of the RCU checks causes tracing to lock up the system.
- *
- * The no-tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
- * rcu_read_lock_held().
- */
-#define rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(p) __rcu_dereference_check((p), 1, __rcu)
-
 /**
  * rcu_dereference_protected() - fetch RCU pointer when updates prevented
  * @p: The pointer to read, prior to dereferencing