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* [PATCH 0/2] cleanup: Conditional locking support
@ 2023-11-02 10:44 Peter Zijlstra
  2023-11-02 10:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] cleanup: Add conditional guard support Peter Zijlstra
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From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2023-11-02 10:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds
  Cc: x86, linux-kernel, peterz, Jonathan Cameron, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
	Oleg Nesterov, Eric Biederman

Hi,

Two patches, the first extending the cleanup/guard stuff to better handle
conditional locks, mutex_trylock(), mutex_lock_interruptible() etc.. And the
second a small ptrace conversion that I've been using as a test-case.

The normal scoped_guard() is changed to simply skip the body when a conditional
lock fails to acquire. A new scoped_cond_guard() is added that takes an extra
statement argument to provide an explicit 'fail' action.

The ptrace patch has:

  scoped_cond_guard (mutex_intr, return -ERESTARTNOINTR,
		     &task->signal->cred_guard_mutex) {
    ...
  }
  ...
  return 0;

Where if the lock acquire fails, it does 'return -ERESTARTNOINTR'.

The crazy perf thing then becomes:

  scoped_cond_guard (rwsem_read_intr, goto no_lock,
                     task ? &task->signal->exec_update_lock : NULL) {
    if (0) {
no_lock:
      if (task)
        return -EINTR;
    }
    ... body with or without lock ...
  }


Specifically, that thing needs the lock when there is a task, but otherwise
needs to still do the body without the lock.

IIO also wanted something along these lines, although they have a custom
'trylock' thing.

Barring objections, I'm planning to merge this into tip/locking/cleanup which
I'll merge into tip/locking/core (and tip/perf/core when times comes).

My plan is to post the perf patches in 3 batches of roughly 10 patches each,
the simpler first and the more crazy ones (including the above) last.


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2023-11-02 14:40   ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-02 15:55     ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-03  9:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-11-03 18:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2023-11-03 18:51         ` Oleg Nesterov
2023-11-02 10:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] ptrace: Convert ptrace_attach() to use lock guards Peter Zijlstra
2023-11-02 15:17   ` Oleg Nesterov
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