Gabriele Monaco <[email protected]> writes:
> The opid monitor validates that wakeup and need_resched events only
> occur with interrupts and preemption disabled by following the
> preemptirq tracepoints.
> As reported in [1], those tracepoints might be inaccurate in some
> situations (e.g. NMIs).
>
> Since the monitor doesn't validate other ordering properties, remove the
> dependency on preemptirq tracepoints and convert the monitor to a hybrid
> automaton to validate the constraint during event handling.
> This makes the monitor more robust by also removing the workaround for
> interrupts missing the preemption tracepoints, which was working on
> PREEMPT_RT only and allows the monitor to be built on kernels without
> the preemptirqs tracepoints.
>
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <[email protected]>

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