History log of /linux-master/kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# f551103c 15-Dec-2023 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>

sched.h: move pid helpers to pid.h

This is needed for killing the sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h, and
pid.h is a better place for this code anyways.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>


# 8282947f 15-Aug-2021 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

locking/rwlock: Provide RT variant

Similar to rw_semaphores, on RT the rwlock substitution is not writer fair,
because it's not feasible to have a writer inherit its priority to
multiple readers. Readers blocked on a writer follow the normal rules of
priority inheritance. Like RT spinlocks, RT rwlocks are state preserving
across the slow lock operations (contended case).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211303.882793524@linutronix.de


# de8f5e4f 20-Mar-2020 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

lockdep: Introduce wait-type checks

Extend lockdep to validate lock wait-type context.

The current wait-types are:

LD_WAIT_FREE, /* wait free, rcu etc.. */
LD_WAIT_SPIN, /* spin loops, raw_spinlock_t etc.. */
LD_WAIT_CONFIG, /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_LOCK, spinlock_t etc.. */
LD_WAIT_SLEEP, /* sleeping locks, mutex_t etc.. */

Where lockdep validates that the current lock (the one being acquired)
fits in the current wait-context (as generated by the held stack).

This ensures that there is no attempt to acquire mutexes while holding
spinlocks, to acquire spinlocks while holding raw_spinlocks and so on. In
other words, its a more fancy might_sleep().

Obviously RCU made the entire ordeal more complex than a simple single
value test because RCU can be acquired in (pretty much) any context and
while it presents a context to nested locks it is not the same as it
got acquired in.

Therefore its necessary to split the wait_type into two values, one
representing the acquire (outer) and one representing the nested context
(inner). For most 'normal' locks these two are the same.

[ To make static initialization easier we have the rule that:
.outer == INV means .outer == .inner; because INV == 0. ]

It further means that its required to find the minimal .inner of the held
stack to compare against the outer of the new lock; because while 'normal'
RCU presents a CONFIG type to nested locks, if it is taken while already
holding a SPIN type it obviously doesn't relax the rules.

Below is an example output generated by the trivial test code:

raw_spin_lock(&foo);
spin_lock(&bar);
spin_unlock(&bar);
raw_spin_unlock(&foo);

[ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
-----------------------------
swapper/0/1 is trying to lock:
ffffc90000013f20 (&bar){....}-{3:3}, at: kernel_init+0xdb/0x187
other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/0/1:
#0: ffffc90000013ee0 (&foo){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: kernel_init+0xd1/0x187

The way to read it is to look at the new -{n,m} part in the lock
description; -{3:3} for the attempted lock, and try and match that up to
the held locks, which in this case is the one: -{2,2}.

This tells that the acquiring lock requires a more relaxed environment than
presented by the lock stack.

Currently only the normal locks and RCU are converted, the rest of the
lockdep users defaults to .inner = INV which is ignored. More conversions
can be done when desired.

The check for spinlock_t nesting is not enabled by default. It's a separate
config option for now as there are known problems which are currently
addressed. The config option allows to identify these problems and to
verify that the solutions found are indeed solving them.

The config switch will be removed and the checks will permanently enabled
once the vast majority of issues has been addressed.

[ bigeasy: Move LD_WAIT_FREE,… out of CONFIG_LOCKDEP to avoid compile
failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK + !CONFIG_LOCKDEP]
[ tglx: Add the config option ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.427089655@linutronix.de


# 1a365e82 20-Nov-2019 Marco Elver <elver@google.com>

locking/spinlock/debug: Fix various data races

This fixes various data races in spinlock_debug. By testing with KCSAN,
it is observable that the console gets spammed with data races reports,
suggesting these are extremely frequent.

Example data race report:

read to 0xffff8ab24f403c48 of 4 bytes by task 221 on cpu 2:
debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:85 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x9b/0x210 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
__raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock+0x39/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151
spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline]
get_partial_node.isra.0.part.0+0x32/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:1873
get_partial_node mm/slub.c:1870 [inline]
<snip>

write to 0xffff8ab24f403c48 of 4 bytes by task 167 on cpu 3:
debug_spin_unlock kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:103 [inline]
do_raw_spin_unlock+0xc9/0x1a0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:138
__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:159 [inline]
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2d/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:191
spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:393 [inline]
free_debug_processing+0x1b3/0x210 mm/slub.c:1214
__slab_free+0x292/0x400 mm/slub.c:2864
<snip>

As a side-effect, with KCSAN, this eventually locks up the console, most
likely due to deadlock, e.g. .. -> printk lock -> spinlock_debug ->
KCSAN detects data race -> kcsan_print_report() -> printk lock ->
deadlock.

This fix will 1) avoid the data races, and 2) allow using lock debugging
together with KCSAN.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191120155715.28089-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 60ca1e5a 21-Feb-2019 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

mmiowb: Hook up mmiowb helpers to spinlocks and generic I/O accessors

Removing explicit calls to mmiowb() from driver code means that we must
now call into the generic mmiowb_spin_{lock,unlock}() functions from the
core spinlock code. In order to elide barriers following critical
sections without any I/O writes, we also hook into the asm-generic I/O
routines.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>


# bc88c10d 08-Feb-2017 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

locking/spinlock/debug: Remove spinlock lockup detection code

The current spinlock lockup detection code can sometimes produce false
positives because of the unfairness of the locking algorithm itself.

So the lockup detection code is now removed. Instead, we are relying
on the NMI watchdog to detect potential lockup. We won't have lockup
detection if the watchdog isn't running.

The commented-out read-write lock lockup detection code are also
removed.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486583208-11038-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 60fc2874 31-Oct-2013 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b81ol0z3mon45m51o131yc9j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>