Re: [RFC PATCH] x86, espfix: use spin_lock rather than mutex

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 07:37:45PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
> The following lockdep warning occurrs when running with latest kernel:
> [    3.178000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    3.183000] WARNING: CPU: 128 PID: 0 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2755 lockdep_trace_alloc+0xdd/0xe0()
> [    3.193000] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags))
> [    3.199000] Modules linked in:
> 
> [    3.203000] CPU: 128 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/128 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc3 #70
> [    3.221000]  0000000000000000 2d6601fb3e6d4e4c ffff88086fd5fc38 ffffffff81773f0a
> [    3.230000]  0000000000000000 ffff88086fd5fc90 ffff88086fd5fc78 ffffffff8108c85a
> [    3.238000]  ffff88086fd60000 0000000000000092 ffff88086fd60000 00000000000000d0
> [    3.246000] Call Trace:
> [    3.249000]  [<ffffffff81773f0a>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x65
> [    3.255000]  [<ffffffff8108c85a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8a/0xc0
> [    3.261000]  [<ffffffff8108c8e5>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x55/0x70
> [    3.268000]  [<ffffffff810ee24d>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xdd/0xe0
> [    3.274000]  [<ffffffff811cda0d>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xad/0xca0
> [    3.281000]  [<ffffffff810ec7ad>] ? __lock_acquire+0xf6d/0x1560
> [    3.288000]  [<ffffffff81219c8a>] alloc_page_interleave+0x3a/0x90
> [    3.295000]  [<ffffffff8121b32d>] alloc_pages_current+0x17d/0x1a0
> [    3.301000]  [<ffffffff811c869e>] ? __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
> [    3.308000]  [<ffffffff811c869e>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
> [    3.314000]  [<ffffffff8102640b>] init_espfix_ap+0x17b/0x320
> [    3.320000]  [<ffffffff8105c691>] start_secondary+0xf1/0x1f0
> [    3.327000] ---[ end trace 1b3327d9d6a1d62c ]---
>
> This seems a mis-warning by lockdep, as we alloc pages with GFP_KERNEL in
> init_espfix_ap() which is called before enabled local irq, and the lockdep
> sub-system considers this behaviour as allocating memory with GFP_FS with
> local irq disabled, then trigger the warning as mentioned about.
> Though here we use GFP_NOFS rather GFP_KERNEL to avoid the warning, but
> you know, init_espfix_ap is called with preempt and local irq disabled,
> it is not a good idea to use mutex (might sleep) here.
> So we convert the initialization lock to spin_lock here to avoid the noise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c |   13 +++++++------
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
> index f5d0730..ceb35a3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/espfix_64.c
> @@ -57,14 +57,14 @@
>  # error "Need more than one PGD for the ESPFIX hack"
>  #endif
>  
> -#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_ZERO)
> +#define PGALLOC_GFP (GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)

IINM, that's ESPFIX_MAX_PAGES with GFP_ATOMIC which for 8K CPUs are 128
pages.

That's a lotta waste in my book for espfix stack pages.

Enabling interrupts earlier in start_secondary() is probably out of the
question, maybe we should prealloc all those pages...

hpa?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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