Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] arm64: Make debug exception handlers visible from RCU

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

Hi Masami,

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 02:32:25PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:26:03 +0100
> Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 05:16:15PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > > index 9568c116ac7f..ed6c55c87fdc 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> > > @@ -777,6 +777,42 @@ void __init hook_debug_fault_code(int nr,
> > >  	debug_fault_info[nr].name	= name;
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > +/*
> > > + * In debug exception context, we explicitly disable preemption.
> > 
> > Maybe add "despite having interrupts disabled"?
> 
> OK, I'll add it.
> 
> > > + * This serves two purposes: it makes it much less likely that we would
> > > + * accidentally schedule in exception context and it will force a warning
> > > + * if we somehow manage to schedule by accident.
> > > + */
> > > +static void debug_exception_enter(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > > +{
> > > +	if (user_mode(regs)) {
> > > +		RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_is_watching(), "entry code didn't wake RCU");
> > > +	} else {
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * We might have interrupted pretty much anything.  In
> > > +		 * fact, if we're a debug exception, we can even interrupt
> > > +		 * NMI processing. We don't want this code makes in_nmi()
> > > +		 * to return true, but we need to notify RCU.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		rcu_nmi_enter();
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	preempt_disable();
> > 
> > If you're addingt new functions for entry/exit, maybe move the
> > trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() calls in here too?
> 
> OK, let's move it in these functions.

Brill, thanks. Please just resend this patch, as I can pick the other three
up as they are.

Will