Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: improve current->(hard|soft)irqs_enabled synchronisation with actual irq state

[Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>]

Excerpts from Peter Zijlstra's message of July 23, 2020 9:40 pm:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 08:56:14PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>> index 3a0db7b0b46e..35060be09073 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>> @@ -200,17 +200,14 @@ static inline bool arch_irqs_disabled(void)
>>  #define powerpc_local_irq_pmu_save(flags)			\
>>  	 do {							\
>>  		raw_local_irq_pmu_save(flags);			\
>> -		trace_hardirqs_off();				\
>> +		if (!raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags))		\
>> +			trace_hardirqs_off();			\
>>  	} while(0)
>>  #define powerpc_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags)			\
>>  	do {							\
>> -		if (raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) {		\
>> -			raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags);	\
>> -			trace_hardirqs_off();			\
>> -		} else {					\
>> +		if (!raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags))		\
>>  			trace_hardirqs_on();			\
>> -			raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags);	\
>> -		}						\
>> +		raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags);		\
>>  	} while(0)
> 
> You shouldn't be calling lockdep from NMI context!

After this patch it doesn't.

trace_hardirqs_on/off implementation appears to expect to be called in NMI 
context though, for some reason.

> That is, I recently
> added suport for that on x86:
> 
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.155449112@infradead.org
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.216740948@infradead.org
> 
> But you need to be very careful on how you order things, as you can see
> the above relies on preempt_count() already having been incremented with
> NMI_MASK.

Hmm. My patch seems simpler.

I don't know this stuff very well, I don't really understand what your patch 
enables for x86 but at least it shouldn't be incompatible with this one 
AFAIKS.

Thanks,
Nick