Re: [PATCH 7/7] preempt: Take away preempt_enable_no_resched() from modules

Jacob Pan
2013-11-20T18:55:21Z

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:04:57 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Discourage drivers/modules to be creative with preemption.
>
> Sadly all is implemented in macros and inline so if they want to do
> evil they still can, but at least try and discourage some.
>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: lenb@kernel.org
> Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
> Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com
> Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: hpa@zytor.com
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> ---
> include/linux/preempt.h | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/include/linux/preempt.h
> +++ b/include/linux/preempt.h
> @@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ do { \
> } while (0)
>
> #else
> -#define preempt_enable() preempt_enable_no_resched()
> +#define preempt_enable() \
> +do { \
> + barrier(); \
> + preempt_count_dec(); \
> +} while (0)
> #define preempt_check_resched() do { } while (0)
> #endif
>
> @@ -126,6 +130,16 @@ do { \
> #define preempt_fold_need_resched() do { } while (0)
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef MODULE
> +/*
> + * Modules have no business playing preemption tricks.
> + */
> +#undef sched_preempt_enable_no_resched
> +#undef preempt_enable_no_resched
> +#undef preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace
> +#undef preempt_check_resched
> +#endif
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
>
> struct preempt_notifier;
>
>

run into a couple of compile issues.

1)
include/linux/rcupdate.h: In function ‘rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace’:
include/linux/rcupdate.h:889:2: error: implicit declaration of function
‘preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

2)
In file included from drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c:41:0:
include/linux/uaccess.h: In function ‘pagefault_enable’:
include/linux/uaccess.h:34:2: error: implicit declaration of function
‘preempt_check_resched’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

1) happens when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set, perhaps add a dummy function?
2) I am not sure if we should take pagefault_enable away from modules