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From: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com, mst@redhat.com,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, paulus@samba.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: [PATCH RFC 2/2] mm, sched: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when pagefaults are disabled
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 18:10:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417108217-42687-3-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417108217-42687-1-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Commit 662bbcb2747c2422cf98d3d97619509379eee466 removed might_sleep() checks
for all user access code (that uses might_fault()).

The reason was to disable wrong "sleep in atomic" warnings in the following
scenario:
	pagefault_disable();
	rc = copy_to_user(...);
	pagefault_enable();

Which is valid, as pagefault_disable() increments the preempt counter and
therefore disables the pagefault handler. copy_to_user() will not sleep and return
an invalid return code if a page is not available.

However, as all might_sleep() checks are removed, CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
would no longer detect the following scenario:
	spin_lock(&lock);
	rc = copy_to_user(...);
	spin_unlock(&lock);

If the kernel is compiled with preemption turned on, the preempt counter would
be incremented and copy_to_user() would never sleep. However, with preemption
turned off, the preempt counter will not be touched, we will therefore sleep in
atomic context. We really want to enable CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP checks for
user access functions again, otherwise horrible deadlocks might be hard to debug.

Root of all evil is that pagefault_disable() acted almost as preempt_disable(),
depending on preemption being turned on/off.

As we now have a fixed pagefault_disable() implementation in place, that uses
own bits in the preempt counter, we can reenable might_sleep() checks.

This patch reverts commit 662bbcb2747c2422cf98d3d97619509379eee466 taking care
of the !MMU optimization and the new pagefault_disabled() check.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/kernel.h |  9 +++++++--
 mm/memory.c            | 15 ++++-----------
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 3d770f55..64b5f93 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -225,9 +225,14 @@ static inline u32 reciprocal_scale(u32 val, u32 ep_ro)
 	return (u32)(((u64) val * ep_ro) >> 32);
 }
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && \
-	(defined(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP))
+#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && defined(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING)
 void might_fault(void);
+#elif defined(CONFIG_MMU) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP)
+static inline void might_fault(void)
+{
+	if (unlikely(!pagefault_disabled()))
+		__might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0);
+}
 #else
 static inline void might_fault(void) { }
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 3e50383..0e59db9 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3699,7 +3699,7 @@ void print_vma_addr(char *prefix, unsigned long ip)
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 }
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP)
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
 void might_fault(void)
 {
 	/*
@@ -3711,17 +3711,10 @@ void might_fault(void)
 	if (segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS))
 		return;
 
-	/*
-	 * it would be nicer only to annotate paths which are not under
-	 * pagefault_disable, however that requires a larger audit and
-	 * providing helpers like get_user_atomic.
-	 */
-	if (in_atomic())
-		return;
-
-	__might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0);
+	if (unlikely(!pagefault_disabled()))
+		__might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0);
 
-	if (current->mm)
+	if (!in_atomic() && current->mm)
 		might_lock_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(might_fault);
-- 
1.8.5.5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-27 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25 11:43 [RFC 0/2] Reenable might_sleep() checks for might_fault() when atomic David Hildenbrand
2014-11-25 11:43 ` [RFC 1/2] powerpc/fsl-pci: atomic get_user when pagefault_disabled David Hildenbrand
2015-01-30  5:15   ` [RFC,1/2] " Scott Wood
2015-01-30  7:58     ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-25 11:43 ` [RFC 2/2] mm, sched: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when atomic David Hildenbrand
2014-11-26  7:02 ` [RFC 0/2] Reenable might_sleep() checks for " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 10:05   ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-26 15:17     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 15:23       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 15:32         ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-26 15:47           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 16:02             ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-26 16:19               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 16:30                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-26 16:50                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 16:07             ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-26 16:32               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 16:51                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-26 17:04                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 17:21                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-27  7:09                     ` Heiko Carstens
2014-11-27  7:40                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-27  8:03                       ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 12:04                         ` Heiko Carstens
2014-11-27 12:08                           ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 15:07                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-27 15:19                             ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 15:37                               ` David Laight
2014-11-27 15:45                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 16:27                                   ` David Laight
2014-11-27 16:49                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 21:52                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-28  7:34                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-26 15:30       ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-26 15:37         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-26 16:02           ` Christian Borntraeger
2014-11-26 15:22     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-27 17:10 ` [PATCH RFC " David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 17:10   ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] preempt: track pagefault_disable() calls in the preempt counter David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 17:10   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2014-11-27 17:24     ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] mm, sched: trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() when pagefaults are disabled Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-27 17:32       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-11-27 18:08         ` David Hildenbrand
2014-11-27 18:27           ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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