Re: [PATCH v16 13/25] mm: pagewalk: Don't lock PTEs for walk_page_range_novma()

[Steven Price]

On 10/12/2019 11:23, kbuild test robot wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:
> 
> [auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
> [also build test WARNING on v5.5-rc1 next-20191209]
> [cannot apply to arm64/for-next/core tip/x86/mm]
> [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
> improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
> base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]
> 
> url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Steven-Price/Generic-page-walk-and-ptdump/20191208-035831
> base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ad910e36da4ca3a1bd436989f632d062dda0c921
> reproduce:
>         # apt-get install sparse
>         # sparse version: v0.6.1-101-g82dee2e-dirty
>         make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
>         make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'
> 
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> 
>>> include/linux/spinlock.h:378:9: sparse: sparse: context imbalance in 'walk_pte_range' - unexpected unlock

I believe this is a false positive (although the trace here is useless).
This patch adds a conditional lock/unlock:

pte = walk->no_vma ? pte_offset_map(pmd, addr) :
		     pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
...
if (!walk->no_vma)
	spin_unlock(ptl);
pte_unmap(pte);

I'm not sure how to match sparse happy about that. Is the only option to
have two versions of the walk_pte_range() function? One which takes the
lock and one which doesn't.

Steve

> vim +/walk_pte_range +378 include/linux/spinlock.h
> 
> c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  375  
> 3490565b633c70 Denys Vlasenko  2015-07-13  376  static __always_inline void spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock)
> c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  377  {
> c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02 @378  	raw_spin_unlock(&lock->rlock);
> c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  379  }
> c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  380  
> 
> :::::: The code at line 378 was first introduced by commit
> :::::: c2f21ce2e31286a0a32f8da0a7856e9ca1122ef3 locking: Implement new raw_spinlock
> 
> :::::: TO: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> :::::: CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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