Re: [PATCH 07/13] RDMA/rxe: Rename kfree_rcu() to kfree_rcu_mightsleep()

[Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Bob Pearson wrote:
> On 3/9/23 18:55, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 03:13:08PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 04:08:13PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> >>>> The kfree_rcu()'s single argument name is deprecated therefore
> >>>> rename it to kfree_rcu_mightsleep() variant. The goal is explicitly
> >>>> underline that it is for sleepable contexts.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please check the RXE driver in a way that a single argument can
> >>>> be used. Briefly looking at it and rcu_head should be embed to
> >>>> free an obj over RCU-core. The context might be atomic.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearsonhpe@gmail.com>
> >>>> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_pool.c | 2 +-
> >>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>
> >>> Could you please add you reviwed-by or Acked-by tags so we can bring
> >>> our series with renaming for the next merge window?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >> __rxe_cleanup() can be called in two contexts, sleepable and not.
> >> Therefore usage of a single argument of the kvfree_rcu() is not correct
> >> here.
> >>
> >> Could you please fix and check your driver? If my above statement
> >> is not correct, please provide Acked-by or Reviwed-by tags to the
> >> path that is in question.
> >>
> >> Otherwise please add an rcu_head in your data to free objects over
> >> kvfree_rcu() using double argument API.
> >>
> >> Could you please support?
> > 
> > Also this one needs renaming? It came in because of the commit in 6.3-rc1:
> > 72a03627443d ("RDMA/rxe: Remove rxe_alloc()")
> > 
> > It could be squashed into this patch itself since it is infiniband related.
> > 
> > Paul noticed that this breaks dropping the old API on -next, so it is
> > blocking the renaming.
> > 
> > ---8<-----------------------
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c
> > index b10aa1580a64..ae3a100e18fb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c
> > @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ int rxe_dereg_mr(struct ib_mr *ibmr, struct ib_udata *udata)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> >  	rxe_cleanup(mr);
> > -	kfree_rcu(mr);
> > +	kfree_rcu_mightsleep(mr);
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> I just got back from a 1 week vacation and missed all this.
> 
> The "RDMA/rxe: Remove rxe_alloc()" patch just moved the memory allocation
> for MR (verbs) objects outside of the rxe_pool code since it only applied
> to MRs and not the other verbs objects (AH, QP, CQ, ...).  That code has to
> handle a unique situation for AH objects which can be created or destroyed
> by connection manager code in atomic context while all the other ones
> including MRs are always created/destroyed in process context. All objects
> other than MR's are created/destroyed in the rdma-core code
> (drivers/infiniband/core).
> 
> The rxe driver keeps xarray's of pointers to the various objects which are
> protected by rcu locking and so it made sense to use kfree_rcu to delete
> the object with a delay. In the MR case ..._mightsleep seems harmless and
> should not be an issue.
> 
> However on reflection, all the references to the MR objects are ref counted
> and they have been dropped before reaching the kfree and so there really
> never was a good reason to use kfree_rcu in the first place. So a better
> solution would be to replace kfree_rcu with kfree. There is a timeout in
> completion_done() that triggers a WARN_ON() and this is only seen if the
> driver is broken for some reason but that is equivalent to getting a seg
> fault so no reason to further delay the kfree.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Bob Pearson <rpearsonhpe@gmail.com>

Thanks, I am planning to send the following patch for 6.4 consideration,
please let me know if you disagree. Still testing it.

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From: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/rxe: Rename kfree_rcu() to kvfree_rcu_mightsleep()

The k[v]free_rcu() macro's single-argument form is deprecated.
Therefore switch to the new k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep() variant. The goal
is to avoid accidental use of the single-argument forms, which can
introduce functionality bugs in atomic contexts and latency bugs in
non-atomic contexts.

There is no functionality change with this patch.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20230201150815.409582-1-urezki@gmail.com
Acked-by: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Pearson <rpearsonhpe@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fixes: 72a03627443d ("RDMA/rxe: Remove rxe_alloc()")
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
---
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c
index b10aa1580a64..ae3a100e18fb 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c
@@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ int rxe_dereg_mr(struct ib_mr *ibmr, struct ib_udata *udata)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	rxe_cleanup(mr);
-	kfree_rcu(mr);
+	kfree_rcu_mightsleep(mr);
 	return 0;
 }
 
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