Re: [PATCH] perf/core: Add SRCU annotation for pmus list walk

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 07:22:08 EST


On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:14:29PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Since commit
> 28875945ba98d ("rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking")
>
> there is an additional check to ensure that a RCU related lock is held
> while the RCU list is iterated.
> This section holds the SRCU reader lock instead.
>
> Add annotation to list_for_each_entry_rcu() that pmus_srcu must be
> acquired during the list traversal.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I see the warning in in v5.4-rc during boot. For some reason I don't see
> it in tip/master during boot but "perf stat w" triggers it again (among
> other things).
>
> kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index 5224388872069..dbb3b26a55612 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -10497,7 +10497,7 @@ static struct pmu *perf_init_event(struct perf_event *event)
> goto unlock;
> }
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry) {
> + list_for_each_entry_rcu(pmu, &pmus, entry, lockdep_is_held(&pmus_srcu)) {

That's a bit obnoxious, but ok, I suppose.