From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C28BC433F5 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:53:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DCB660E52 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:53:48 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 mail.kernel.org 9DCB660E52 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.alibaba.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lists.ozlabs.org Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4HTbDB6lZkz304x for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:53:46 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=linux.alibaba.com (client-ip=115.124.30.54; helo=out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com; envelope-from=yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com; receiver=) Received: from out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com (out30-54.freemail.mail.aliyun.com [115.124.30.54]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4HTbCj1xsDz2yK3 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:53:20 +1100 (AEDT) X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS; BC=-1|-1; BR=01201311R191e4; CH=green; DM=||false|; DS=||; FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1; HT=e01e04357; MF=yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com; NM=1; PH=DS; RN=31; SR=0; TI=SMTPD_---0UrdeUV._1634089981; Received: from testdeMacBook-Pro.local(mailfrom:yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0UrdeUV._1634089981) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com(127.0.0.1); Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:53:02 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: disable preemption on the testing of recursion To: Steven Rostedt , Miroslav Benes References: <8c7de46d-9869-aa5e-2bb9-5dbc2eda395e@linux.alibaba.com> <20211012082920.1f8d6557@gandalf.local.home> From: =?UTF-8?B?546L6LSH?= Message-ID: <6ca59cdd-e378-b8c6-7ac6-472568f1af97@linux.alibaba.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:52:16 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20211012082920.1f8d6557@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "Peter Zijlstra \(Intel\)" , Paul Walmsley , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Guo Ren , Jisheng Zhang , "H. Peter Anvin" , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Paul Mackerras , Joe Lawrence , Helge Deller , x86@kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Petr Mladek , Albert Ou , Jiri Kosina , Nicholas Piggin , Borislav Petkov , Josh Poimboeuf , Thomas Gleixner , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Palmer Dabbelt , Masami Hiramatsu , Colin Ian King , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 2021/10/12 下午8:29, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:24:43 +0200 (CEST) > Miroslav Benes wrote: > >>> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/patch.c >>> @@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ static void notrace klp_ftrace_handler(unsigned long ip, >>> bit = ftrace_test_recursion_trylock(ip, parent_ip); >>> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(bit < 0)) >>> return; >>> - /* >>> - * A variant of synchronize_rcu() is used to allow patching functions >>> - * where RCU is not watching, see klp_synchronize_transition(). >>> - */ >>> - preempt_disable_notrace(); >>> >>> func = list_first_or_null_rcu(&ops->func_stack, struct klp_func, >>> stack_node); >>> @@ -120,7 +115,6 @@ static void notrace klp_ftrace_handler(unsigned long ip, >>> klp_arch_set_pc(fregs, (unsigned long)func->new_func); >>> >>> unlock: >>> - preempt_enable_notrace(); >>> ftrace_test_recursion_unlock(bit); >>> } >> >> I don't like this change much. We have preempt_disable there not because >> of ftrace_test_recursion, but because of RCU. ftrace_test_recursion was >> added later. Yes, it would work with the change, but it would also hide >> things which should not be hidden in my opinion. > > Agreed, but I believe the change is fine, but requires a nice comment to > explain what you said above. > > Thus, before the "ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()" we need: > > /* > * The ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() will disable preemption, > * which is required for the variant of synchronize_rcu() that is > * used to allow patching functions where RCU is not watching. > * See klp_synchronize_transition() for more details. > */ Will be in v2 too :-) Regards, Michael Wang > > -- Steve >