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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
c5bcab7558 locking/local_lock: Add local nested BH locking infrastructure.
Add local_lock_nested_bh() locking. It is based on local_lock_t and the
naming follows the preempt_disable_nested() example.

For !PREEMPT_RT + !LOCKDEP it is a per-CPU annotation for locking
assumptions based on local_bh_disable(). The macro is optimized away
during compilation.
For !PREEMPT_RT + LOCKDEP the local_lock_nested_bh() is reduced to
the usual lock-acquire plus lockdep_assert_in_softirq() - ensuring that
BH is disabled.

For PREEMPT_RT local_lock_nested_bh() acquires the specified per-CPU
lock. It does not disable CPU migration because it relies on
local_bh_disable() disabling CPU migration.
With LOCKDEP it performans the usual lockdep checks as with !PREEMPT_RT.
Due to include hell the softirq check has been moved spinlock.c.

The intention is to use this locking in places where locking of a per-CPU
variable relies on BH being disabled. Instead of treating disabled
bottom halves as a big per-CPU lock, PREEMPT_RT can use this to reduce
the locking scope to what actually needs protecting.
A side effect is that it also documents the protection scope of the
per-CPU variables.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240620132727.660738-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-06-24 16:41:22 -07:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
07e4fd4c05 locking/local_lock: Introduce guard definition for local_lock.
Introduce lock guard definition for local_lock_t. There are no users
yet.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240620132727.660738-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-06-24 16:41:22 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
91710728d1 locking: Introduce local_lock()
preempt_disable() and local_irq_disable/save() are in principle per CPU big
kernel locks. This has several downsides:

  - The protection scope is unknown

  - Violation of protection rules is hard to detect by instrumentation

  - For PREEMPT_RT such sections, unless in low level critical code, can
    violate the preemptability constraints.

To address this PREEMPT_RT introduced the concept of local_locks which are
strictly per CPU.

The lock operations map to preempt_disable(), local_irq_disable/save() and
the enabling counterparts on non RT enabled kernels.

If lockdep is enabled local locks gain a lock map which tracks the usage
context. This will catch cases where an area is protected by
preempt_disable() but the access also happens from interrupt context. local
locks have identified quite a few such issues over the years, the most
recent example is:

  b7d5dc2107 ("random: add a spinlock_t to struct batched_entropy")

Aside of the lockdep coverage this also improves code readability as it
precisely annotates the protection scope.

PREEMPT_RT substitutes these local locks with 'sleeping' spinlocks to
protect such sections while maintaining preemtability and CPU locality.

local locks can replace:

  - preempt_enable()/disable() pairs
  - local_irq_disable/enable() pairs
  - local_irq_save/restore() pairs

They are also used to replace code which implicitly disables preemption
like:

  - get_cpu()/put_cpu()
  - get_cpu_var()/put_cpu_var()

with PREEMPT_RT friendly constructs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2020-05-28 10:31:09 +02:00