* The lock history for each syscall should be independent. So wipe the
* slate clean on return to userspace.
*/
- crossrelease_hist_end(XHLOCK_PROC);
- crossrelease_hist_start(XHLOCK_PROC);
+ lockdep_invariant_state(false);
}
void lockdep_rcu_suspicious(const char *file, const int line, const char *s)
}
/*
- * Lock history stacks; we have 3 nested lock history stacks:
+ * Lock history stacks; we have 2 nested lock history stacks:
*
- * Hard IRQ
- * Soft IRQ
- * History / Task
+ * HARD(IRQ)
+ * SOFT(IRQ)
*
- * The thing is that once we complete a (Hard/Soft) IRQ the future task locks
- * should not depend on any of the locks observed while running the IRQ.
- *
- * So what we do is rewind the history buffer and erase all our knowledge of
- * that temporal event.
+ * The thing is that once we complete a HARD/SOFT IRQ the future task locks
+ * should not depend on any of the locks observed while running the IRQ. So
+ * what we do is rewind the history buffer and erase all our knowledge of that
+ * temporal event.
*/
-/*
- * We need this to annotate lock history boundaries. Take for instance
- * workqueues; each work is independent of the last. The completion of a future
- * work does not depend on the completion of a past work (in general).
- * Therefore we must not carry that (lock) dependency across works.
- *
- * This is true for many things; pretty much all kthreads fall into this
- * pattern, where they have an 'idle' state and future completions do not
- * depend on past completions. Its just that since they all have the 'same'
- * form -- the kthread does the same over and over -- it doesn't typically
- * matter.
- *
- * The same is true for system-calls, once a system call is completed (we've
- * returned to userspace) the next system call does not depend on the lock
- * history of the previous system call.
- */
void crossrelease_hist_start(enum xhlock_context_t c)
{
struct task_struct *cur = current;
- if (cur->xhlocks) {
- cur->xhlock_idx_hist[c] = cur->xhlock_idx;
- cur->hist_id_save[c] = cur->hist_id;
- }
+ if (!cur->xhlocks)
+ return;
+
+ cur->xhlock_idx_hist[c] = cur->xhlock_idx;
+ cur->hist_id_save[c] = cur->hist_id;
}
void crossrelease_hist_end(enum xhlock_context_t c)
}
}
+/*
+ * lockdep_invariant_state() is used to annotate independence inside a task, to
+ * make one task look like multiple independent 'tasks'.
+ *
+ * Take for instance workqueues; each work is independent of the last. The
+ * completion of a future work does not depend on the completion of a past work
+ * (in general). Therefore we must not carry that (lock) dependency across
+ * works.
+ *
+ * This is true for many things; pretty much all kthreads fall into this
+ * pattern, where they have an invariant state and future completions do not
+ * depend on past completions. Its just that since they all have the 'same'
+ * form -- the kthread does the same over and over -- it doesn't typically
+ * matter.
+ *
+ * The same is true for system-calls, once a system call is completed (we've
+ * returned to userspace) the next system call does not depend on the lock
+ * history of the previous system call.
+ *
+ * They key property for independence, this invariant state, is that it must be
+ * a point where we hold no locks and have no history. Because if we were to
+ * hold locks, the restore at _end() would not necessarily recover it's history
+ * entry. Similarly, independence per-definition means it does not depend on
+ * prior state.
+ */
+void lockdep_invariant_state(bool force)
+{
+ /*
+ * We call this at an invariant point, no current state, no history.
+ * Verify the former, enforce the latter.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!force && current->lockdep_depth);
+ invalidate_xhlock(&xhlock(current->xhlock_idx));
+}
+
static int cross_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock)
{
return lock ? lock->cross : 0;
/* Initialize hist_lock's members */
xhlock->hlock = *hlock;
- xhlock->hist_id = current->hist_id++;
+ xhlock->hist_id = ++current->hist_id;
xhlock->trace.nr_entries = 0;
xhlock->trace.max_entries = MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES;
break;
/*
- * Filter out the cases that the ring buffer was
- * overwritten and the previous entry has a bigger
- * hist_id than the following one, which is impossible
- * otherwise.
+ * Filter out the cases where the ring buffer was
+ * overwritten and the current entry has a bigger
+ * hist_id than the previous one, which is impossible
+ * otherwise:
*/
- if (unlikely(before(xhlock->hist_id, prev_hist_id)))
+ if (unlikely(before(prev_hist_id, xhlock->hist_id)))
break;
prev_hist_id = xhlock->hist_id;