Re: kernel analyser to detect sleep under spinlock

From: Peter T. Breuer
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 23:31:30 EST


"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:<2Y9DE-4Tb-7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...

(scanning for abuses of spinlocks in the kernel source)

> ftp://oboe.it.uc3m.es/pub/Programs/c-1.2.tgz
>
> To use the application, compile and then use "c" in place of
> "gcc" on a typical kernel compile line.

I've added some extra support for gcc 3.4.0 (which seems to use some
special builtin types such as __builtin_va_list that gcc 2.95.4 does
not generate) and put up the new archive at

ftp://oboe.it.uc3m.es/pub/Programs/c-1.2.1.tgz

Please tell me of any parse rejects with 2.4 kernel files. I'll be very
happy to make the usually trivial parser additions required to scan the
gnuish C involved! I simply have only tried a few dozen kernel source
files myself and so don't have a complete picture of every weird extension
usage out there in the source.

I'll also start going through 2.6 kernel files to see if anything more is
needed for those.

To remind you what this utility detects:

> Here's some typical output ...
>
> % ./c -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE \
> -I/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.25-xfs/include ../dbr/1/sbull.c
> *************** sleepy functions *******************************
> * function line calls
> *
> * - /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.25-xfs/include/linux/smb_fs_sb.h
> * smb_lock_server 63 down
> *
> * - /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.25-xfs/include/linux/fs.h
> * lock_parent 1624 down
> * double_down 1647 down
> * triple_down 1668 down
> * double_lock 1718 double_down
> *
> * - /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.25-xfs/include/linux/locks.h
> * lock_super 38 down
> *
> * - ../dbr/1/sbull.c
> * sbull_ioctl 171 interruptible_sleep_on
> *
> * - /usr/local/src/linux-2.4.25-xfs/include/linux/blk.h
> * sbull_request 358 interruptible_sleep_on
> *
> * - ../dbr/1/sbull.c
> * sbull_init 431 kmalloc
> * sbull_init 431 kfree
> * sbull_cleanup 542 kfree
> *
> ****************************************************************
> *************** sleep_under_spinlock ****************************
> * function line calls
> *
> * - ../dbr/1/sbull.c
> * sbull_request 420 interruptible_sleep_on
> *
> *
> * *** found 1 instances of sleep under spinlock ***
> *
> ***********************************************
>
> It's GPL/LGPL.


Peter (ptb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

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