Re: [PATCH v8 13/15] x86/split_lock: Enable split lock detection by default

From: Fenghua Yu
Date: Tue May 07 2019 - 16:57:37 EST


On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 12:58:32PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019, David Laight wrote:
>
> > From: Fenghua Yu
> > > Sent: 24 April 2019 20:33
> > > A split locked access locks bus and degrades overall memory access
> > > performance. When split lock detection feature is enumerated, enable
> > > the feature by default by writing 1 to bit 29 in MSR TEST_CTL to find
> > > any split lock issue.
> >
> > You can't enable this by default until ALL the known potentially
> > misaligned locked memory operations have been fixed.
>
> Errm? The result will be a WARN_ON() printed and no further damage. It's
> not making anything worse than it is now. In fact we just should add a
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!aligned_to_long(p)) to all the xxx_bit() operations.
>
> so we catch them even when they do not trigger that #AC thingy.

I add WARN_ON_ONCE() in atomic xxx_bit(). But the code cannot be compiled.

Here is a simplified patch (only adding warning in set_bit()):

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
index 8e790ec219a5..bc889ac12e26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
#endif

#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <asm-generic/bug.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/rmwcc.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>
@@ -67,6 +69,8 @@
static __always_inline void
set_bit(long nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
{
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)addr, sizeof(unsigned long)));
+
if (IS_IMMEDIATE(nr)) {
asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "orb %1,%0"
: CONST_MASK_ADDR(nr, addr)

gcc reports errors:
CC kernel/bounds.s
CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
In file included from ./include/linux/bitops.h:19,
from ./include/linux/kernel.h:12,
from ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:18,
from ./arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:83,
from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
from ./include/linux/page-flags.h:10,
from kernel/bounds.c:10:
./arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In function âset_bitâ:
./arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:72:2: error: implicit declaration of function âWARN_ON_ONCEâ; did you mean âWRITE_ONCEâ? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)addr, sizeof(unsigned long)));
^~~~~~~~~~~~
./arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:72:16: error: implicit declaration of function âIS_ALIGNEDâ; did you mean âIS_ENABLEDâ? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)addr, sizeof(unsigned long)));
^~~~~~~~~~
I think it's because arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h is included in
include/linux/kernel.h before IS_ALIGNED() is defined and in
include/asm-generic/bug.h before WARN_ON_ONCE() is defined.

How to write a right warn patch and solve the compilation issue?

Thanks.

-Fenghua