Re: [PATCH 2/3] rust: sync: Assert Lock::is_locked in Guard::new for debug builds

Boqun Feng
2024-11-25T21:30:29Z

On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 03:30:09PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 15:59 -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:30:42PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > Since we're allowing code to unsafely claim that it's acquired a lock
> > > let's use the new Lock::is_locked() function so that when debug assertions
> > > are enabled, we can verify that the lock has actually been acquired.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs | 7 +++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> > > index 542f846ac02b2..0a7f2ed767423 100644
> > > --- a/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> > > +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs
> > > @@ -244,10 +244,17 @@ fn drop(&mut self) {
> > > impl<'a, T: ?Sized, B: Backend> Guard<'a, T, B> {
> > > /// Constructs a new immutable lock guard.
> > > ///
> > > + /// # Panics
> > > + ///
> > > + /// This function will panic if debug assertions are enabled and `lock` is not actually
> > > + /// acquired.
> > > + ///
> > > /// # Safety
> > > ///
> > > /// The caller must ensure that it owns the lock.
> > > pub unsafe fn new(lock: &'a Lock<T, B>, state: B::GuardState) -> Self {
> > > + debug_assert!(lock.is_locked());
> >
> > You should just use lockdep_assert_held() here, and there's no need for
> > new_unchecked().
>

[Sorry for a bit late response]

> I'm fine using lockdep for this, I guess I'm curious - wouldn't we still want
> to at least avoid this lockdep check when we explicitly just grabbed the lock?

Because is_lock() doesn't give the correct answer every time, as you
already know, if there is another thread already acquires the lock, the
check will just pass (false negative). Although it's not as annoying as
false positives, it is still troublesome: imagine you got a bug report
but the reproduce doesn't work at 100% rate.

> Or do we just not really care too much about the performance case of being
> under lockdep (which is reasonable enough :)
>

If you're interested to improve the performance with lockdep checking,
I'd suggest we should work on improving lockdep, for example we can have
a light-weight CONFIG_LOCKDEP_LITE, that is: only recording or checking
the lock hold information, which only need to be maintained in a
per-task manner, and that should be really fast to do. And it can catch
a few lock problems like you care about here.

Regards,
Boqun

> >
> > Regards,
> > Boqun
> >
> > > +
> > > Self {
> > > lock,
> > > state,
> > > --
> > > 2.47.0
> > >
> >
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Lyude Paul (she/her)
> Software Engineer at Red Hat
>
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