Re: [PATCH -tip] tracing: trigger: Replace unneeded RCU-list traversals

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Tue Jan 07 2020 - 04:15:07 EST


Hi Tom,

Could you review this fix?

On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:31:43 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST, I had many suspicious RCU warnings
> when I ran ftracetest trigger testcases.
>
> -----
> # dmesg -c > /dev/null
> # ./ftracetest test.d/trigger
> ...
> # dmesg | grep "RCU-list traversed" | cut -f 2 -d ] | cut -f 2 -d " "
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6070
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1760
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5911
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:504
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1810
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3158
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3105
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5518
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5998
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6019
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6044
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1500
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1540
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:539
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:584
> -----
>
> I investigated those warnings and found that the RCU-list
> traversals in event trigger and hist didn't need to use
> RCU version because those were called only under event_mutex.
>
> I also checked other RCU-list traversals related to event
> trigger list, and found that most of them were called from
> event_hist_trigger_func() or hist_unregister_trigger() or
> register/unregister functions except for a few cases.
>
> Replace these unneeded RCU-list traversals with normal list
> traversal macro and lockdep_assert_held() to check the
> event_mutex is held.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 20 +++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> index 23b0195ac977..844f8325077f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> @@ -1753,11 +1753,13 @@ static struct hist_field *find_var(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
> struct hist_field *hist_field;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> hist_field = find_var_field(hist_data, var_name);
> if (hist_field)
> return hist_field;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> test_data = test->private_data;
> hist_field = find_var_field(test_data, var_name);
> @@ -1807,7 +1809,9 @@ static struct hist_field *find_file_var(struct trace_event_file *file,
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
> struct hist_field *hist_field;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> test_data = test->private_data;
> hist_field = find_var_field(test_data, var_name);
> @@ -3102,7 +3106,9 @@ static char *find_trigger_filter(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
> {
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> if (test->private_data == hist_data)
> return test->filter_str;
> @@ -3153,9 +3159,11 @@ find_compatible_hist(struct hist_trigger_data *target_hist_data,
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
> unsigned int n_keys;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> n_keys = target_hist_data->n_fields - target_hist_data->n_vals;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> hist_data = test->private_data;
>
> @@ -5515,7 +5523,7 @@ static int hist_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> goto out_unlock;
> }
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(data, &event_file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(data, &event_file->triggers, list) {
> if (data->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST)
> hist_trigger_show(m, data, n++);
> }
> @@ -5908,7 +5916,9 @@ static int hist_register_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> if (hist_data->attrs->name && !named_data)
> goto new;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> if (!hist_trigger_match(data, test, named_data, false))
> continue;
> @@ -5992,10 +6002,12 @@ static bool have_hist_trigger_match(struct event_trigger_data *data,
> struct event_trigger_data *test, *named_data = NULL;
> bool match = false;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> if (hist_data->attrs->name)
> named_data = find_named_trigger(hist_data->attrs->name);
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> if (hist_trigger_match(data, test, named_data, false)) {
> match = true;
> @@ -6013,10 +6025,12 @@ static bool hist_trigger_check_refs(struct event_trigger_data *data,
> struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data = data->private_data;
> struct event_trigger_data *test, *named_data = NULL;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> if (hist_data->attrs->name)
> named_data = find_named_trigger(hist_data->attrs->name);
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> if (!hist_trigger_match(data, test, named_data, false))
> continue;
> @@ -6038,10 +6052,12 @@ static void hist_unregister_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> struct event_trigger_data *test, *named_data = NULL;
> bool unregistered = false;
>
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> if (hist_data->attrs->name)
> named_data = find_named_trigger(hist_data->attrs->name);
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> if (!hist_trigger_match(data, test, named_data, false))
> continue;
> @@ -6067,7 +6083,9 @@ static bool hist_file_check_refs(struct trace_event_file *file)
> struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data;
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> hist_data = test->private_data;
> if (check_var_refs(hist_data))
> @@ -6310,7 +6328,8 @@ hist_enable_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data, void *rec,
> struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data = data->private_data;
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &enable_data->file->triggers, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &enable_data->file->triggers, list,
> + lockdep_is_held(&event_mutex)) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> if (enable_data->enable)
> test->paused = false;
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> index 2cd53ca21b51..40106fff06a4 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> @@ -501,7 +501,9 @@ void update_cond_flag(struct trace_event_file *file)
> struct event_trigger_data *data;
> bool set_cond = false;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (data->filter || event_command_post_trigger(data->cmd_ops) ||
> event_command_needs_rec(data->cmd_ops)) {
> set_cond = true;
> @@ -536,7 +538,9 @@ static int register_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
> int ret = 0;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == data->cmd_ops->trigger_type) {
> ret = -EEXIST;
> goto out;
> @@ -581,7 +585,9 @@ static void unregister_trigger(char *glob, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> struct event_trigger_data *data;
> bool unregistered = false;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> if (data->cmd_ops->trigger_type == test->cmd_ops->trigger_type) {
> unregistered = true;
> list_del_rcu(&data->list);
> @@ -1497,7 +1503,9 @@ int event_enable_register_trigger(char *glob,
> struct event_trigger_data *test;
> int ret = 0;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> test_enable_data = test->private_data;
> if (test_enable_data &&
> (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type ==
> @@ -1537,7 +1545,9 @@ void event_enable_unregister_trigger(char *glob,
> struct event_trigger_data *data;
> bool unregistered = false;
>
> - list_for_each_entry_rcu(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> + lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);
> +
> + list_for_each_entry(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> enable_data = data->private_data;
> if (enable_data &&
> (data->cmd_ops->trigger_type ==
>


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>