From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/cpufeature: Move BUG_ON() inside get_arm64_ftr_reg()
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 16:47:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520154711.GD18302@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200520122012.GA25815@willie-the-truck>
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:20:13PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 06:52:54AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > There is no way to proceed when requested register could not be searched in
> > arm64_ftr_reg[]. Requesting for a non present register would be an error as
> > well. Hence lets just BUG_ON() when the search fails in get_arm64_ftr_reg()
> > rather than checking for return value and doing the same in some individual
> > callers.
> >
> > But there are some callers that dont BUG_ON() upon search failure. It adds
> > an argument 'failsafe' that provides required switch between callers based
> > on whether they could proceed or not.
> >
> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> > Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> > ---
> > Applies on next-20200518 that has recent cpufeature changes from Will.
> >
> > arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 26 +++++++++++++-------------
> > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > index bc5048f152c1..62767cc540c3 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static int search_cmp_ftr_reg(const void *id, const void *regp)
> > * - NULL on failure. It is upto the caller to decide
> > * the impact of a failure.
> > */
> > -static struct arm64_ftr_reg *get_arm64_ftr_reg(u32 sys_id)
> > +static struct arm64_ftr_reg *get_arm64_ftr_reg(u32 sys_id, bool failsafe)
>
> Generally, I'm not a big fan of boolean arguments because they are really
> opaque at the callsite. It also seems bogus to me that we don't trust the
> caller to pass a valid sys_id, but we trust it to get "failsafe" right,
> which seems to mean "I promise to check the result isn't NULL before
> dereferencing it."
>
> So I don't see how this patch improves anything. I'd actually be more
> inclined to stick a WARN() in get_arm64_ftr_reg() when it returns NULL and
> have the callers handle NULL by returning early, getting rid of all the
> BUG_ONs in here. Sure, the system might end up in a funny state, but we
> WARN()d about it and tried to keep going (and Linus has some strong opinions
> on this too).
Such WARN can be triggered by the user via emulate_sys_reg(), so we
can't really have it in get_arm64_ftr_reg() without a 'failsafe' option.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-20 1:22 [PATCH] arm64/cpufeature: Move BUG_ON() inside get_arm64_ftr_reg() Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-20 11:49 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-20 12:20 ` Will Deacon
2020-05-20 15:47 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-05-20 17:39 ` Will Deacon
2020-05-21 3:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-21 16:22 ` Will Deacon
2020-05-21 16:59 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-24 23:52 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-26 12:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-21 3:12 ` Anshuman Khandual
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