Re: [PATCH] lockdep: annotate i386 apm

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 02:50:59 EST


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 23:39 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:06:20 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > #define local_irq_restore(flags) \
> > do { \
> > if (raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) { \
> > raw_local_irq_restore(flags); \
> > trace_hardirqs_off(); \
> > } else { \
> > trace_hardirqs_on(); \
> > raw_local_irq_restore(flags); \
> > } \
> > } while (0)
> >
> > So, say interrupts were enabled when entering apm_bios_call*(); you now
> > save that in flags, disable interrupts, and enable them again.
> > Upon reaching local_irq_restore(), we'll hit the else branch with irq's
> > enabled and call trace_hardirqs_on(), which goes EEEK!
>
> I'd assumed lockdep was less stupid than that ;) This? Seems a bit
> overdone..

Seems simple enough, bit on the verbose side, _however_ it depends on
the BIOS call not changing the irq state. I don't know about BIOSs but I
thought the general consensus was to distrust them.

Was my original _that_ hard to read?

> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c~lockdep-annotate-i386-apm
> +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
> @@ -540,12 +540,6 @@ static inline void apm_restore_cpus(cpum
> * Also, we KNOW that for the non error case of apm_bios_call, there
> * is no useful data returned in the low order 8 bits of eax.
> */
> -#define APM_DO_CLI \
> - if (apm_info.allow_ints) \
> - local_irq_enable(); \
> - else \
> - local_irq_disable();
> -
> #ifdef APM_ZERO_SEGS
> # define APM_DECL_SEGS \
> unsigned int saved_fs; unsigned int saved_gs;
> @@ -583,11 +577,12 @@ static u8 apm_bios_call(u32 func, u32 eb
> u32 *eax, u32 *ebx, u32 *ecx, u32 *edx, u32 *esi)
> {
> APM_DECL_SEGS
> - unsigned long flags;
> cpumask_t cpus;
> int cpu;
> struct desc_struct save_desc_40;
> struct desc_struct *gdt;
> + int enable_irqs = 0;
> + int disable_irqs = 0;
>
> cpus = apm_save_cpus();
>
> @@ -596,12 +591,26 @@ static u8 apm_bios_call(u32 func, u32 eb
> save_desc_40 = gdt[0x40 / 8];
> gdt[0x40 / 8] = bad_bios_desc;
>
> - local_save_flags(flags);
> - APM_DO_CLI;
> + if (apm_info.allow_ints) {
> + if (irqs_disabled()) {
> + local_irq_enable();
> + disable_irqs = 1;
> + }
> + } else {
> + if (!irqs_disabled()) {
> + local_irq_disable();
> + enable_irqs = 1;
> + }
> + }
> +
> +
> APM_DO_SAVE_SEGS;
> apm_bios_call_asm(func, ebx_in, ecx_in, eax, ebx, ecx, edx, esi);
> APM_DO_RESTORE_SEGS;
> - local_irq_restore(flags);
> + if (disable_irqs)
> + local_irq_disable();
> + if (enable_irqs)
> + local_irq_enable();
> gdt[0x40 / 8] = save_desc_40;
> put_cpu();
> apm_restore_cpus(cpus);
> @@ -627,11 +636,12 @@ static u8 apm_bios_call_simple(u32 func,
> {
> u8 error;
> APM_DECL_SEGS
> - unsigned long flags;
> cpumask_t cpus;
> int cpu;
> struct desc_struct save_desc_40;
> struct desc_struct *gdt;
> + int enable_irqs = 0;
> + int disable_irqs = 0;
>
> cpus = apm_save_cpus();
>
> @@ -640,12 +650,25 @@ static u8 apm_bios_call_simple(u32 func,
> save_desc_40 = gdt[0x40 / 8];
> gdt[0x40 / 8] = bad_bios_desc;
>
> - local_save_flags(flags);
> - APM_DO_CLI;
> + if (apm_info.allow_ints) {
> + if (irqs_disabled()) {
> + local_irq_enable();
> + disable_irqs = 1;
> + }
> + } else {
> + if (!irqs_disabled()) {
> + local_irq_disable();
> + enable_irqs = 1;
> + }
> + }
> +
> APM_DO_SAVE_SEGS;
> error = apm_bios_call_simple_asm(func, ebx_in, ecx_in, eax);
> APM_DO_RESTORE_SEGS;
> - local_irq_restore(flags);
> + if (disable_irqs)
> + local_irq_disable();
> + if (enable_irqs)
> + local_irq_enable();
> gdt[0x40 / 8] = save_desc_40;
> put_cpu();
> apm_restore_cpus(cpus);
> _
>

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