[tip:sched/core] sched/preempt: Take away preempt_enable_no_resched() from modules

From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 13 2014 - 10:57:52 EST


Commit-ID: 62b94a08da1bae9d187d49dfcd6665af393750f8
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/62b94a08da1bae9d187d49dfcd6665af393750f8
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:52:19 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:47:37 +0100

sched/preempt: Take away preempt_enable_no_resched() from modules

Discourage drivers/modules to be creative with preemption.

Sadly all is implemented in macros and inline so if they want to do
evil they still can, but at least try and discourage some.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: hpa@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: lenb@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fn7h6vu8wtgxk0ih402qcijx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/preempt.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/uaccess.h | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/preempt.h b/include/linux/preempt.h
index a3d9dc8..dd9ddf8 100644
--- a/include/linux/preempt.h
+++ b/include/linux/preempt.h
@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ do { \
} while (0)

#else
-#define preempt_enable() preempt_enable_no_resched()
+#define preempt_enable() \
+do { \
+ barrier(); \
+ preempt_count_dec(); \
+} while (0)
#define preempt_check_resched() do { } while (0)
#endif

@@ -93,7 +97,11 @@ do { \
__preempt_schedule_context(); \
} while (0)
#else
-#define preempt_enable_notrace() preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace()
+#define preempt_enable_notrace() \
+do { \
+ barrier(); \
+ __preempt_count_dec(); \
+} while (0)
#endif

#else /* !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT */
@@ -116,6 +124,16 @@ do { \

#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT */

+#ifdef MODULE
+/*
+ * Modules have no business playing preemption tricks.
+ */
+#undef sched_preempt_enable_no_resched
+#undef preempt_enable_no_resched
+#undef preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace
+#undef preempt_check_resched
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS

struct preempt_notifier;
diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index 9d8cf05..ecd3319 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -25,13 +25,16 @@ static inline void pagefault_disable(void)

static inline void pagefault_enable(void)
{
+#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
/*
* make sure to issue those last loads/stores before enabling
* the pagefault handler again.
*/
barrier();
preempt_count_dec();
- preempt_check_resched();
+#else
+ preempt_enable();
+#endif
}

#ifndef ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS
--
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