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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2015-03-17 10:40:38 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-06 21:56:21 +0200
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parent14a1fe5de9d7c391301b517e8effb5f098ada9c4 (diff)
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ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with __this_cpu_*()
commit 80a9b64e2c156b6523e7a01f2ba6e5d86e722814 upstream. It has come to my attention that this_cpu_read/write are horrible on architectures other than x86. Worse yet, they actually disable preemption or interrupts! This caused some unexpected tracing results on ARM. 101.356868: preempt_count_add <-ring_buffer_lock_reserve 101.356870: preempt_count_sub <-ring_buffer_lock_reserve The ring_buffer_lock_reserve has recursion protection that requires accessing a per cpu variable. But since preempt_disable() is traced, it too got traced while accessing the variable that is suppose to prevent recursion like this. The generic version of this_cpu_read() and write() are: #define this_cpu_generic_read(pcp) \ ({ typeof(pcp) ret__; \ preempt_disable(); \ ret__ = *this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)); \ preempt_enable(); \ ret__; \ }) #define this_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, op) \ do { \ unsigned long flags; \ raw_local_irq_save(flags); \ *__this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)) op val; \ raw_local_irq_restore(flags); \ } while (0) Which is unacceptable for locations that know they are within preempt disabled or interrupt disabled locations. Paul McKenney stated that __this_cpu_() versions produce much better code on other architectures than this_cpu_() does, if we know that the call is done in a preempt disabled location. I also changed the recursive_unlock() to use two local variables instead of accessing the per_cpu variable twice. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317114411.GE3589@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317104038.312e73d1@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 3d9fee3a80b3..ab21b8c66535 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2650,7 +2650,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, current_context);
static __always_inline int trace_recursive_lock(void)
{
- unsigned int val = this_cpu_read(current_context);
+ unsigned int val = __this_cpu_read(current_context);
int bit;
if (in_interrupt()) {
@@ -2667,18 +2667,17 @@ static __always_inline int trace_recursive_lock(void)
return 1;
val |= (1 << bit);
- this_cpu_write(current_context, val);
+ __this_cpu_write(current_context, val);
return 0;
}
static __always_inline void trace_recursive_unlock(void)
{
- unsigned int val = this_cpu_read(current_context);
+ unsigned int val = __this_cpu_read(current_context);
- val--;
- val &= this_cpu_read(current_context);
- this_cpu_write(current_context, val);
+ val &= val & (val - 1);
+ __this_cpu_write(current_context, val);
}
#else