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McKenney" Cc: LKML , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Phil Auld , Alex Belits , Nicolas Saenz Julienne , Marco Elver , Xiongfeng Wang , Neeraj Upadhyay , Thomas Gleixner , Nicolas Saenz Julienne , Max Filippov , Yu Liao , Boqun Feng , Marcelo Tosatti , kernel test robot , Paul Gortmaker , Uladzislau Rezki , Joel Fernandes Subject: [PATCH 02/20] context_tracking: Add a note about noinstr VS unsafe context tracking functions Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:16:01 +0200 Message-Id: <20220628131619.2109651-3-frederic@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20220628131619.2109651-1-frederic@kernel.org> References: <20220628131619.2109651-1-frederic@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Some context tracking functions enter or exit into/from RCU idle mode while using trace-able and lockdep-aware IRQs (un-)masking. As a result those functions can't get tagged as noinstr. This is unlikely to be fixed since these are obsolete APIs. Drop a note about this matter. [ paulmck: Apply Peter Zijlstra feedback. ] Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Xiongfeng Wang Cc: Yu Liao Cc: Phil Auld Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Alex Belits Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne --- kernel/context_tracking.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/context_tracking.c b/kernel/context_tracking.c index 36a98c48aedc..3082332f6476 100644 --- a/kernel/context_tracking.c +++ b/kernel/context_tracking.c @@ -103,6 +103,15 @@ void noinstr __context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_enter); +/* + * OBSOLETE: + * This function should be noinstr but the below local_irq_restore() is + * unsafe because it involves illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep. + * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred + * way is to call __context_tracking_enter() through user_enter_irqoff() + * or context_tracking_guest_enter(). It should be the arch entry code + * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled. + */ void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state) { unsigned long flags; @@ -125,6 +134,14 @@ void context_tracking_enter(enum ctx_state state) NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_enter); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_enter); +/* + * OBSOLETE: + * This function should be noinstr but it unsafely calls local_irq_restore(), + * involving illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep. + * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred + * way is to call user_enter_irqoff(). It should be the arch entry code + * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled. + */ void context_tracking_user_enter(void) { user_enter(); @@ -168,6 +185,15 @@ void noinstr __context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__context_tracking_exit); +/* + * OBSOLETE: + * This function should be noinstr but the below local_irq_save() is + * unsafe because it involves illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep. + * This is unlikely to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred + * way is to call __context_tracking_exit() through user_exit_irqoff() + * or context_tracking_guest_exit(). It should be the arch entry code + * responsibility to call into context tracking with IRQs disabled. + */ void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state) { unsigned long flags; @@ -182,6 +208,14 @@ void context_tracking_exit(enum ctx_state state) NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(context_tracking_exit); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(context_tracking_exit); +/* + * OBSOLETE: + * This function should be noinstr but it unsafely calls local_irq_save(), + * involving illegal RCU uses through tracing and lockdep. This is unlikely + * to be fixed as this function is obsolete. The preferred way is to call + * user_exit_irqoff(). It should be the arch entry code responsibility to + * call into context tracking with IRQs disabled. + */ void context_tracking_user_exit(void) { user_exit(); -- 2.25.1