From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>,
Dan Rue <dan.rue@linaro.org>, Matt Hart <matthew.hart@linaro.org>,
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>,
Daniel Diaz <daniel.diaz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: debug: Remove rcu_read_lock from debug exception
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:22:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190718062215.GG14271@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156342863822.8565.7624877983728871995.stgit@devnote2>
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 02:43:58PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() from debug exception
> handlers since the software breakpoint can be hit on idle task.
The exception entry and exit use irq_enter() and irq_exit(), in this
case, correct? Otherwise RCU will be ignoring this CPU.
Thanx, Paul
> Actually, we don't need it because those handlers run in exception
> context where the interrupts are disabled. This means those are never
> preempted.
>
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 14 ++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
> index f8719bd30850..48222a4760c2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
> @@ -207,16 +207,16 @@ static int call_step_hook(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr)
>
> list = user_mode(regs) ? &user_step_hook : &kernel_step_hook;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> -
> + /*
> + * Since single-step exception disables interrupt, this function is
> + * entirely not preemptible, and we can use rcu list safely here.
> + */
> list_for_each_entry_rcu(hook, list, node) {
> retval = hook->fn(regs, esr);
> if (retval == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED)
> break;
> }
>
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> -
> return retval;
> }
> NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(call_step_hook);
> @@ -305,14 +305,16 @@ static int call_break_hook(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr)
>
> list = user_mode(regs) ? &user_break_hook : &kernel_break_hook;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> + /*
> + * Since brk exception disables interrupt, this function is
> + * entirely not preemptible, and we can use rcu list safely here.
> + */
> list_for_each_entry_rcu(hook, list, node) {
> unsigned int comment = esr & ESR_ELx_BRK64_ISS_COMMENT_MASK;
>
> if ((comment & ~hook->mask) == hook->imm)
> fn = hook->fn;
> }
> - rcu_read_unlock();
>
> return fn ? fn(regs, esr) : DBG_HOOK_ERROR;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-18 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-18 5:43 [PATCH 0/3] arm64: kprobes: Fix some bugs in arm64 kprobes Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-18 5:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: kprobes: Recover pstate.D in single-step exception handler Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-19 10:07 ` James Morse
2019-07-20 6:22 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-18 5:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: unwind: Prohibit probing on return_address() Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-18 5:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: debug: Remove rcu_read_lock from debug exception Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-18 6:22 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2019-07-18 9:20 ` Mark Rutland
2019-07-18 14:31 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-19 8:42 ` James Morse
2019-07-20 7:32 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-21 1:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-19 9:59 ` Mark Rutland
2019-07-20 7:54 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-07-24 10:45 ` Mark Rutland
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