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From: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
To: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com, will.deacon@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, robin.murphy@arm.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] iommu: Add I/O ASID allocator
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:10:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190611101052.35af46df@jacob-builder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95292b47-4cf4-5fd9-b096-1cb016e2264f@arm.com>

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:37:42 +0100
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> wrote:

> On 11/06/2019 13:26, Jacob Pan wrote:
> >> +/**
> >> + * ioasid_set_data - Set private data for an allocated ioasid
> >> + * @ioasid: the ID to set data
> >> + * @data:   the private data
> >> + *
> >> + * For IOASID that is already allocated, private data can be set
> >> + * via this API. Future lookup can be done via ioasid_find.
> >> + */
> >> +int ioasid_set_data(ioasid_t ioasid, void *data)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct ioasid_data *ioasid_data;
> >> +	int ret = 0;
> >> +
> >> +	xa_lock(&ioasid_xa);  
> > Just wondering if this is necessary, since xa_load is under
> > rcu_read_lock and we are not changing anything internal to xa. For
> > custom allocator I still need to have the mutex against allocator
> > removal.  
> 
> I think we do need this because of a possible race with ioasid_free():
> 
>          CPU1                      CPU2
>   ioasid_free(ioasid)     ioasid_set_data(ioasid, foo)
>                             data = xa_load(...)
>     xa_erase(...)
>     kfree_rcu(data)           (no RCU lock held)
>     ...free(data)
>                             data->private = foo;
> 
make sense, thanks for explaining.

> The issue is theoretical at the moment because no users do this, but
> I'd be more comfortable taking the xa_lock, which prevents a
> concurrent xa_erase()+free(). (I commented on your v3 but you might
> have missed it)
> 
Did you reply to my v3? I did not see it. I only saw your comments about
v3 in your commit message.

> >> +	ioasid_data = xa_load(&ioasid_xa, ioasid);
> >> +	if (ioasid_data)
> >> +		rcu_assign_pointer(ioasid_data->private, data);  
> > it is good to publish and have barrier here. But I just wonder even
> > for weakly ordered machine, this pointer update is quite far away
> > from its data update.  
> 
> I don't know, it could be right before calling ioasid_set_data():
> 
> 	mydata = kzalloc(sizeof(*mydata));
> 	mydata->ops = &my_ops;			(1)
> 	ioasid_set_data(ioasid, mydata);
> 		... /* no write barrier here */
> 		data->private = mydata;		(2)
> 
> And then another thread calls ioasid_find():
> 
> 	mydata = ioasid_find(ioasid);
> 	if (mydata)
> 		mydata->ops->do_something();
> 
> On a weakly ordered machine, this thread could observe the pointer
> assignment (2) before the ops assignment (1), and dereference NULL.
> Using rcu_assign_pointer() should fix that
> 
I agree it is better to have the barrier. Just thought there is already
a rcu_read_lock() in xa_load() in between. rcu_read_lock() may have
barrier in some case but better not count on it. No issues here. I will
integrate this in the next version.

> Thanks,
> Jean

[Jacob Pan]

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-10 18:47 [PATCH 0/8] iommu: Add auxiliary domain and PASID support to Arm SMMUv3 Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 1/8] iommu: Add I/O ASID allocator Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11  9:36   ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-06-11 14:35     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11 18:13       ` Jacob Pan
2019-06-18 14:22         ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-18 17:05           ` Jacob Pan
2019-06-19 14:26             ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11 12:26   ` Jacob Pan
2019-06-11 14:37     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11 17:10       ` Jacob Pan [this message]
2019-06-12 11:30         ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 2/8] dt-bindings: document PASID property for IOMMU masters Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-07-08  7:58   ` Auger Eric
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 3/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Support platform SSID Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11  9:42   ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-06-11 14:35     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-18 18:08   ` Will Deacon
2019-06-19 11:53     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-07-08  7:58   ` Auger Eric
2019-09-19 14:51     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 4/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add support for Substream IDs Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11 10:19   ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-06-11 14:35     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-26 18:00   ` Will Deacon
2019-07-04  9:33     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-09-19 14:57     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-07-08 15:31   ` Auger Eric
2019-09-19 15:01     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 5/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add second level of context descriptor table Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11 10:24   ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-07-08 15:13   ` Auger Eric
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 6/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Support auxiliary domains Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-26 17:59   ` Will Deacon
2019-07-05 16:29     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-09-19 15:06     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 7/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Improve add_device() error handling Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-07-08  7:58   ` Auger Eric
2019-06-10 18:47 ` [PATCH 8/8] iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Add support for PCI PASID Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-06-11 10:45   ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-06-11 14:35     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
2019-07-08  7:58   ` Auger Eric
2019-09-19 15:10     ` Jean-Philippe Brucker

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