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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rxrpc: struct mutex cannot be used for rxrpc_call::user_mutex
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:39:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191218203946.GL11457@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191218190833.ufpxjrvin5jvp3m5@linux-p48b>

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:08:33AM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 03:32:00PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > Standard kernel mutexes cannot be used in any way from interrupt or softirq
> > > context, so the user_mutex which manages access to a call cannot be a mutex
> > > since on a new call the mutex must start off locked and be unlocked within
> > > the softirq handler to prevent userspace interfering with a call we're
> > > setting up.
> > > 
> > > Commit a0855d24fc22d49cdc25664fb224caee16998683 ("locking/mutex: Complain
> > > upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts") causes big warnings to be splashed
> > > in dmesg for each a new call that comes in from the server.
> > 
> > FYI that patch has currently been reverted.
> > 
> > commit c571b72e2b845ca0519670cb7c4b5fe5f56498a5 (tip/locking/urgent, tip/locking-urgent-for-linus)
> 
> Will we ever want to re-add this warning (along with writer rwsems) at some point?

Yes, we can try again for the next cycle.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-18 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-17 15:32 [PATCH] rxrpc: struct mutex cannot be used for rxrpc_call::user_mutex David Howells
2019-12-18 13:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-18 19:08   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2019-12-18 20:28     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2019-12-19  9:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-19 17:44         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2019-12-20 20:13           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-12-18 20:39     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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