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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-10 19:07:44 -0700 |
commit | 97d052ea3fa853b9aabcc4baca1a605cb1188611 (patch) | |
tree | 48901cbccafdc5870c7dad9cce98e9338065f8a3 /Documentation | |
parent | 086ba2ec163b638abd2a90ef3e8bab0238d02e56 (diff) | |
parent | 0cd39f4600ed4de859383018eb10f0f724900e1b (diff) |
Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of locking fixes and updates:
- Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.
- The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
above fallout.
seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
cannot validate that the lock is held.
This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
the lock is held.
Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
been moved up.
Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
which have been addressed already independent of this.
While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.
- Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
initializers"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
locking, arch/ia64: Reduce <asm/smp.h> header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new <asm/xtp.h> header
x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from <asm/smp.h>
seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst | 52 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst b/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst index 366dd368d90a..62c5ad98c11c 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst @@ -87,6 +87,58 @@ Read path:: } while (read_seqcount_retry(&foo_seqcount, seq)); +.. _seqcount_locktype_t: + +Sequence counters with associated locks (``seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t``) +----------------------------------------------------------------- + +As discussed at :ref:`seqcount_t`, sequence count write side critical +sections must be serialized and non-preemptible. This variant of +sequence counters associate the lock used for writer serialization at +initialization time, which enables lockdep to validate that the write +side critical sections are properly serialized. + +This lock association is a NOOP if lockdep is disabled and has neither +storage nor runtime overhead. If lockdep is enabled, the lock pointer is +stored in struct seqcount and lockdep's "lock is held" assertions are +injected at the beginning of the write side critical section to validate +that it is properly protected. + +For lock types which do not implicitly disable preemption, preemption +protection is enforced in the write side function. + +The following sequence counters with associated locks are defined: + + - ``seqcount_spinlock_t`` + - ``seqcount_raw_spinlock_t`` + - ``seqcount_rwlock_t`` + - ``seqcount_mutex_t`` + - ``seqcount_ww_mutex_t`` + +The plain seqcount read and write APIs branch out to the specific +seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t implementation at compile-time. This avoids kernel +API explosion per each new seqcount LOCKTYPE. + +Initialization (replace "LOCKTYPE" with one of the supported locks):: + + /* dynamic */ + seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t foo_seqcount; + seqcount_LOCKTYPE_init(&foo_seqcount, &lock); + + /* static */ + static seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t foo_seqcount = + SEQCNT_LOCKTYPE_ZERO(foo_seqcount, &lock); + + /* C99 struct init */ + struct { + .seq = SEQCNT_LOCKTYPE_ZERO(foo.seq, &lock), + } foo; + +Write path: same as in :ref:`seqcount_t`, while running from a context +with the associated LOCKTYPE lock acquired. + +Read path: same as in :ref:`seqcount_t`. + .. _seqlock_t: Sequential locks (``seqlock_t``) |