Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] rust: sync: Add SpinLockIrq

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 18:38 +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On 01.08.24 19:10, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 10:29 +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> > > On 01.08.24 00:35, Lyude Paul wrote:
> 
> Yes, but if you eg call some FFI function in the meantime it might
> re-enable IRQs (or just a plain old bug in the Rust side). I don't know
> how expensive this will be for debug builds, if it is too much, we could
> try to introduce different levels of debugging.
> But as you already said above, we don't need it for `SpinLockIrq`, since
> lockdep should take care of that.

Just some small context here BTW - I suppose it is totally possible for FFI
code to turn interrupts back on. It's worth noting I don't think I know of any
C code that would ever do this though, primarily because unless you know for a
fact that your caller has no locks held then your code is going to deadlock by
doing that. Assuming you're on a single-processor system:

CPU 0:

flags = spin_lock_irqsave(&foo);
local_irq_restore(flags);

*** We get an interrupt and context-switch to the interrupt handler ***

spin_lock(&foo);

*** DEADLOCK ***

(Since &foo is already acquired, and interrupts are disabled on our only CPU -
we'll never switch back to the original context to unlock &foo).

> 
> ---
> Cheers,
> Benno
> 

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