From patchwork Wed Jul 27 11:49:02 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Sebastian Sewior X-Patchwork-Id: 12930385 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017D6C04A68 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231226AbiG0LtS (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:49:18 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37200 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232482AbiG0LtP (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:49:15 -0400 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 683894AD7B for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:49:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1658922552; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=8H4RHHLP/IC4duyp+ci7tktfckRg+ea6zo6aVOrzr/4=; b=K5b7X5hiFu6JtSxqKWdUXdwgHOKSw2ACh0cXDIlPx2iNlWJF1YOZJ2TEHO1aybrZ5Zx92o XjeSWTd8Plq8u9jBnCCjYUmlasUl5/BsK7pGcgj1SEy25wtPz9euE0xTrcQdUqpJUxp5bn kC/K6bqSrCFo5zDvXkcqbarhveQlBj5klJ07YiAqn7fc2yYdK99e7m9gZAqRCbsGewmVxn XLEVCrtKzu2E0foQD3RLfh9h0KP5hTDhVK81X1pmumno9QrLiPoHJZ+geVaHlgAEGwOeNM YYsUePOPA4TyEb5mJw3EWSJuO/qjTPiB53vBwsYh5NkzHBpKJqNr7WK7fuTbsg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1658922552; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=8H4RHHLP/IC4duyp+ci7tktfckRg+ea6zo6aVOrzr/4=; b=bIKZ5GdVndf3XmdOYYvPPHAjPeHNYSgOdG7DbKChuYtr9c7k/+vk9ShGQS//3iXuTxh2Sz Ez75s8YZcAVjcrCQ== To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexander Viro , Matthew Wilcox , Thomas Gleixner , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Oleg.Karfich@wago.com Subject: [PATCH 2/4 v2] fs/dcache: Disable preemption on i_dir_seq write side on PREEMPT_RT Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:49:02 +0200 Message-Id: <20220727114904.130761-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: <20220727114904.130761-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> References: <20220727114904.130761-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org i_dir_seq is a sequence counter with a lock which is represented by the lowest bit. The writer atomically updates the counter which ensures that it can be modified by only one writer at a time. This requires preemption to be disabled across the write side critical section. On !PREEMPT_RT kernels this is implicit by the caller acquiring dentry::lock. On PREEMPT_RT kernels spin_lock() does not disable preemption which means that a preempting writer or reader would live lock. It's therefore required to disable preemption explicitly. An alternative solution would be to replace i_dir_seq with a seqlock_t for PREEMPT_RT, but that comes with its own set of problems due to arbitrary lock nesting. A pure sequence count with an associated spinlock is not possible because the locks held by the caller are not necessarily related. As the critical section is small, disabling preemption is a sensible solution. Reported-by: Oleg.Karfich@wago.com Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220613140712.77932-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de --- fs/dcache.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2564,7 +2564,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_rehash); static inline unsigned start_dir_add(struct inode *dir) { - + /* + * The caller holds a spinlock (dentry::d_lock). On !PREEMPT_RT + * kernels spin_lock() implicitly disables preemption, but not on + * PREEMPT_RT. So for RT it has to be done explicitly to protect + * the sequence count write side critical section against a reader + * or another writer preempting, which would result in a live lock. + */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) + preempt_disable(); for (;;) { unsigned n = dir->i_dir_seq; if (!(n & 1) && cmpxchg(&dir->i_dir_seq, n, n + 1) == n) @@ -2576,6 +2584,8 @@ static inline unsigned start_dir_add(str static inline void end_dir_add(struct inode *dir, unsigned n) { smp_store_release(&dir->i_dir_seq, n + 2); + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) + preempt_enable(); } static void d_wait_lookup(struct dentry *dentry)