Re: [PATCH] Documentation/locking: Document the semantics of spin_is_locked()

[Andrea Parri]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 02:37:30PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 02:13:41PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:34:56AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > >> only if there's some evidence that you've looked at the callsites
> > >> and determined that they won't break.
> > 
> > I looked at the callsites for {,raw_}spin_is_locked() (reported below):
> >
> > In most cases (40+), these primitives are used within BUG_ON/WARN_ON or
> > the like; a handful of other cases using these with no concurrency, for
> > checking "self-lock", or for heuristics.
> > 
> > I confirm that the "ipc/sem.c" case, mentioned in the arm64 and powerpc
> > commits adding smp_mb() to their arch_spin_is_locked(), disappeared.
> > 
> > And that the "debug_core" case seems to be the only case requiring some
> > thoughts: my understanding (but I Cc the KGDB maintainers, so that they
> > can correct me, or provide other details) is that KGDB does not rely on
> > implicit barriers in raw_spin_is_locked().
> > 
> > (This seems instead to rely on barriers in the IPIs sending/handling, in
> >  part., kgdb_roundup_cpus, kgdb_nmicallback; yes, these barriers are not
> >  documented, but I've discussed with Daniel, Jason about the eventuality
> >  of adding such documentations/inline comments.)
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Whilst responding to queries from Andrea I certainly saw opportunities 
> to clean things up... and the result of those clean ups would actually 
> be the removal of both calls to raw_spin_is_locked(). Nevertheless, for
> now lets deal with the code as it is:
> 
> The calls to raw_spin_is_locked() within debug-core will pretty much always 
> be from cores that did not take the lock because the code is triggered
> once we have selected a master and are rounding up the other cpus. Thus
> we do have to analyse the sequencing here.
> 
> Pretty much every architecture I looked at implements the round up 
> using the IPI machinery (hardly surprising; this is obvious way to 
> implement it). I think this provides the required barriers implicitly
> so the is-this-round-up code will correctly observe the locks to be 
> locked when triggered via an IPI.
> 
> It is more difficult to describe the analysis if the is-this-a-round-up
> code is spuriously triggered before the IPI but so far I've not come up 
> with anything worse than a benign race (which exists even with barriers).
> The round up code will eventually figure out it has spuriously tried to
> park and will exit without altering important state. The return value of 
> kgdb_nmicallback() does change in this case but no architecture cares 
> about that[1].
> 
> 
> Daniel

Thank you, Daniel.  Are there other remarks about this auditing?

What are the current options concerning the topic of my patch (semantics
of spin_is_locked)? I still think that we should reach some consensus...

  Andrea


> 
> 
> [1] So one of the clean ups I alluded to above is therefore to remove 
>     the return code ;-) .
> 
> 
> > (N.B. I have _not_ tested any of these observations, say by removing the
> >  smp_mb() from your implementation; so, you know...)
> > 
> >   Andrea
> > 
> > 
> > ./mm/khugepaged.c:1222:						VM_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS != 1 && !spin_is_locked(&khugepaged_mm_lock));
> > ./mm/khugepaged.c:1663:						VM_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS != 1 && !spin_is_locked(&khugepaged_mm_lock));
> > ./mm/swap.c:828:						VM_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS != 1 && !spin_is_locked(&lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->lru_lock));
> > ./security/apparmor/file.c:497:					old = rcu_dereference_protected(fctx->label, spin_is_locked(&fctx->lock));
> > ./net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_gen.h:18:			__ipset_dereference_protected(p, spin_is_locked(&(set)->lock))
> > ./fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:760:					mlog_bug_on_msg(spin_is_locked(&res->l_lock),
> > ./fs/ocfs2/inode.c:1194:					mlog_bug_on_msg(spin_is_locked(&oi->ip_lock),
> > ./fs/userfaultfd.c:156:						VM_BUG_ON(spin_is_locked(&ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock));
> > ./fs/userfaultfd.c:158:						VM_BUG_ON(spin_is_locked(&ctx->fault_wqh.lock));
> > ./fs/userfaultfd.c:160:						VM_BUG_ON(spin_is_locked(&ctx->event_wqh.lock));
> > ./fs/userfaultfd.c:162:						VM_BUG_ON(spin_is_locked(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock));
> > ./fs/userfaultfd.c:919:						VM_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&wqh->lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c:192:					DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&irq->irq_lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c:269:					DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&vgic_cpu->ap_list_lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c:307:					DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&irq->irq_lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c:663:					DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&irq->irq_lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c:694:					DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&vgic_cpu->ap_list_lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic.c:715:					DEBUG_SPINLOCK_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&vgic_cpu->ap_list_lock));
> > ./virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:3934:					WARN_ON(raw_spin_is_locked(&kvm_count_lock));
> > ./kernel/debug/debug_core.c:527:				if (!raw_spin_is_locked(&dbg_slave_lock))
> > ./kernel/debug/debug_core.c:755:				raw_spin_is_locked(&dbg_master_lock)) {
> > ./kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:98:				SPIN_BUG_ON(!raw_spin_is_locked(lock), lock, "already unlocked");
> > ./kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:39:				SMP_DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!spin_is_locked(&lock->wait_lock));
> > ./kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:54:				SMP_DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!spin_is_locked(&lock->wait_lock));
> > ./kernel/futex.c:1368:						if (WARN_ON_SMP(!q->lock_ptr || !spin_is_locked(q->lock_ptr))
> > ./kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:281:				if (in_nmi() && raw_spin_is_locked(&logbuf_lock)) { // same cpu (printk in nmi)
> > ./kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:314:	    			raw_spin_is_locked(&logbuf_lock)) { // same cpu (printk in nmi)
> > ./include/net/sock.h:1529:					return !sk->sk_lock.owned && !spin_is_locked(&sk->sk_lock.slock); // returns in BUG_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE
> > ./arch/x86/pci/i386.c:62:					WARN_ON_SMP(!spin_is_locked(&pcibios_fwaddrmap_lock));
> > ./arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c:3446:			printk("cryptocop_completed_jobs_lock %d\n", spin_is_locked(&cryptocop_completed_jobs_lock));
> > ./arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c:3447:			printk("cryptocop_job_queue_lock %d\n", spin_is_locked(&cryptocop_job_queue_lock));
> > ./arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c:3448:			printk("descr_pool_lock %d\n", spin_is_locked(&descr_pool_lock));
> > ./arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c:3449:			printk("cryptocop_sessions_lock %d\n", spin_is_locked(cryptocop_sessions_lock));
> > ./arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c:3450:			printk("running_job_lock %d\n", spin_is_locked(running_job_lock));
> > ./arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/cryptocop.c:3451:			printk("cryptocop_process_lock %d\n", spin_is_locked(cryptocop_process_lock));
> > ./arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c:208:        			if (spin_is_locked(&pdc_lock)) // self-lock: if (is_locked) unlock(pdc_lock)
> > ./drivers/staging/irda/drivers/sir_dev.c:637:			if(spin_is_locked(&dev->tx_lock)) { 	// for debug
> > ./drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_cl_internal.h:189:	return spin_is_locked(&obj->oo_lock); // for assert
> > ./drivers/tty/serial/sn_console.c:891:				if (spin_is_locked(&port->sc_port.lock)) { // single lock
> > ./drivers/tty/serial/sn_console.c:908:				if (!spin_is_locked(&port->sc_port.lock) // single lock
> > ./drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_channel.c:31:				DBUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ch->lock));
> > ./drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_channel.c:85:				DBUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ch->lock));
> > ./drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_channel.c:761:			DBUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ch->lock));
> > ./drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c:1674:				DBUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ch->lock));
> > ./drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c:1186:				DBUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(&ch->lock));
> > ./drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.h:70:			WARN_ON_SMP(!spin_is_locked(&pdata->mac_lock))
> > ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/mbx.c:267:			WARN_ON_ONCE(!spin_is_locked(&hw->mbx_lock));
> > ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/mbx.c:305:			WARN_ON_ONCE(!spin_is_locked(&hw->mbx_lock));
> > ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c:1527:		WARN(!spin_is_locked(&vsi->mac_filter_hash_lock),
> > ./drivers/net/wireless/zydas/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c:238:		ZD_ASSERT(!spin_is_locked(&mac->lock));
> > ./drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_scsi.c:184:				int sh_locked = spin_is_locked(host->host_lock); // self-lock: if (!is_locked) lock(host_lock)
> > ./drivers/scsi/snic/snic_scsi.c:2004:				SNIC_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(io_lock));
> > ./drivers/scsi/snic/snic_scsi.c:2607:				SNIC_BUG_ON(!spin_is_locked(io_lock));
> > ./drivers/atm/nicstar.c:2692:					if (spin_is_locked(&card->int_lock)) {	// optimization ("Probably it isn't worth spinning")
> > ./drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c:644:					WARN_ON_ONCE(!spin_is_locked(&dm_device.ha_lock));