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Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@cloudflare.com, Caleb Raitto , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_pci: Don't make an extra copy of cpu affinity mask Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:26:49 +0200 In-reply-to: <1698144808.8577316-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Message-ID: <87a5s82qig.fsf@cloudflare.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 06:53 PM +08, Xuan Zhuo wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:17:19 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:31 AM +08, Xuan Zhuo wrote: >> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:52:45 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:55 PM +08, Xuan Zhuo wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:16:24 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: >> >> >> Since commit 19e226e8cc5d ("virtio: Make vp_set_vq_affinity() take a >> >> >> mask.") it is actually not needed to have a local copy of the cpu mask. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Could you give more info to prove this? >> > >> > >> > Actually, my question is that can we pass a val on the stack(or temp value) to >> > the irq_set_affinity_hint()? >> > >> > Such as the virtio-net uses zalloc_cpumask_var to alloc a cpu_mask, and >> > that will be released. >> > >> > >> > >> > int __irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m, >> > bool setaffinity) >> > { >> > unsigned long flags; >> > struct irq_desc *desc = irq_get_desc_lock(irq, &flags, IRQ_GET_DESC_CHECK_GLOBAL); >> > >> > if (!desc) >> > return -EINVAL; >> > -> desc->affinity_hint = m; >> > irq_put_desc_unlock(desc, flags); >> > if (m && setaffinity) >> > __irq_set_affinity(irq, m, false); >> > return 0; >> > } >> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__irq_apply_affinity_hint); >> > >> > The above code directly refers the mask pointer. If the mask is a temp value, I >> > think that is a bug. >> >> You are completely right. irq_set_affinity_hint stores the mask pointer. >> irq_affinity_hint_proc_show later dereferences it when user reads out >> /proc/irq/*/affinity_hint. >> >> I have failed to notice that. That's why we need cpumask_copy to stay. >> >> My patch is buggy. Please disregard. >> >> I will send a v2 to only migrate from deprecated irq_set_affinity_hint. >> >> > And I notice that many places directly pass the temp value to this API. >> > And I am a little confused. ^_^ Or I missed something. >> >> There seem two be two gropus of callers: >> >> 1. Those that use get_cpu_mask/cpumask_of/cpumask_of_node to produce a >> cpumask pointer which is a preallocated constant. >> >> $ weggli 'irq_set_affinity_hint(_, $func(_));' ~/src/linux >> >> 2. Those that pass a pointer to memory somewhere. >> >> $ weggli 'irq_set_affinity_hint(_, $mask);' ~/src/linux >> >> (weggli tool can be found at https://github.com/weggli-rs/weggli) >> >> I've looked over the callers from group #2 but I couldn't find any >> passing a pointer memory on stack :-) > > Pls check stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi() Good catch. That one looks buggy. I should also checked for callers that take an address of a var/field: $ weggli 'irq_set_affinity_hint(_, &$mask);' ~/src/linux