From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753396AbdHWGcB (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:32:01 -0400 Received: from LGEAMRELO11.lge.com ([156.147.23.51]:38341 "EHLO lgeamrelo11.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbdHWGcA (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:32:00 -0400 X-Original-SENDERIP: 156.147.1.126 X-Original-MAILFROM: byungchul.park@lge.com X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.222.33 X-Original-MAILFROM: byungchul.park@lge.com Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:31:57 +0900 From: Byungchul Park To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lge.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Dave Chinner , Tejun Heo , johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lockdep: Make LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE configs all part of PROVE_LOCKING Message-ID: <20170823063157.GE22976@X58A-UD3R> References: <1502960261-16206-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <20170821154600.asyzqs2zg6w6o4pg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170822051438.GD20323@X58A-UD3R> <20170822075238.uyfmhgxeal2bwcdg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170822085100.GH20323@X58A-UD3R> <20170822092141.fjmr74xhfid7vu7h@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170822093337.GJ20323@X58A-UD3R> <20170822100840.eababgjcu76iois5@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170822134922.m2g6kqsqo2eojrg7@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170823024323.GD3108@X58A-UD3R> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170823024323.GD3108@X58A-UD3R> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:43:23AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 03:49:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 12:08:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > > I meant: > > > > > > > > > > > > mutex_lock(&A) > > > > > > > > > > > > lockdep_map_acquire_read(&work) > > > > > > mutex_lock(&A) > > > > > > > > > > > > lockdep_map_acquire(&work) > > > > > > flush_work(&work) > > > > > > > > > > > > I mean it can still be detected with a read acquisition in work. > > > > > > Am I wrong? > > > > > > > > > > Think so, although there's something weird with read locks that I keep > > > > > forgetting. But I'm not sure it'll actually solve the problem. But I can > > > > > > > > I mean, read acquisitions are nothing but ones allowing read ones to be > > > > re-acquired legally, IOW, we want to check entrance of flush_work() and > > > > works, not between works. That's why I suggested to use read ones in work > > > > in that case. > > > > > > Does seem to work. > > > > So I think we'll end up hitting a lockdep deficiency and not trigger the > > splat on flush_work(), see also: > > > > https://lwn.net/Articles/332801/ > > > > lock_map_acquire_read() is a read-recursive and will not in fact create > > any dependencies because of this issue. > > > > In specific, check_prev_add() has: > > > > if (next->read == 2 || prev->read == 2) > > return 1; > > > > This means that for: > > > > lock_map_acquire_read(W)(2) > > down_write(A) (0) > > > > down_write(A) (0) > > wait_for_completion(C) (0) > > > > lock_map_acquire_read(W)(2) > > complete(C) (0) > > > > All the (2) effectively go away and 'solve' our current issue, but: > > > > lock_map_acquire_read(W)(2) > > mutex_lock(A) (0) > > > > mutex_lock(A) (0) > > lock_map_acquire(W) (0) > > > > as per flush_work() will not in fact trigger anymore either. > > It should be triggered. Lockdep code should be fixed so that it does. > > > See also the below locking-selftest changes. > > > > > > Now, this means I also have to consider the existing > > lock_map_acquire_read() users and if they really wanted to be recursive > > or not. When I change lock_map_acquire_read() to use > > lock_acquire_shared() this annotation no longer suffices and the splat > > comes back. > > > > > > Also, the acquire_read() annotation will (obviously) no longer work to > > cure this problem when we switch to normal read (1), because then the > > generated chain: > > > > W(1) -> A(0) -> C(0) -> W(1) > > Please explain what W/A/C stand for. I eventually found them in your words. Let me read this again.