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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] preempt: Put preempt_enable() within an instrumentation*() section.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:16:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs8x4c8k.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230309072724.3F6zRkvw@linutronix.de>

On Thu, Mar 09 2023 at 08:27, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Callers of preempt_enable() can be within an noinstr section leading to:
> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: native_sched_clock+0x97: call to preempt_schedule_notrace_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section
> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: kvm_clock_read+0x22: call to preempt_schedule_notrace_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section
> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: local_clock+0xb4: call to preempt_schedule_notrace_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section

> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: enter_from_user_mode+0xea: call to preempt_schedule_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section
> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x140: call to preempt_schedule_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section
> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: syscall_enter_from_user_mode_prepare+0xf2: call to preempt_schedule_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section
> | vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: irqentry_enter_from_user_mode+0xea: call to preempt_schedule_thunk() leaves .noinstr.text section 

I'm confused where this preempt_enable is in those
*_enter_from_user_mode() functions.

Kernel config and compiler version please.

>  #define preempt_enable() \
>  do { \
>  	barrier(); \
> -	if (unlikely(preempt_count_dec_and_test())) \
> +	if (unlikely(preempt_count_dec_and_test())) { \
> +		instrumentation_begin(); \
>  		__preempt_schedule(); \
> +		instrumentation_end(); \
> +	} \
>  } while (0)

This would paper over a misplaced preempt_disable/enable() pair in
noinstr code. I'm not really happy about that.

Thanks,

        tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-18 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-09  7:27 [PATCH RFC] preempt: Put preempt_enable() within an instrumentation*() section Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2023-04-18 12:16 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2023-04-18 13:49   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2023-04-18 13:25 ` Peter Zijlstra

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