Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/9] timer: fix circular header dependency

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Tue Sep 25 2018 - 13:48:48 EST




On 09/25/2018 12:15 PM, Christophe LEROY wrote:


Le 25/09/2018 Ã 14:11, Mark Rutland a ÃcritÂ:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 07:34:15AM +0200, Christophe LEROY wrote:


Le 24/09/2018 Ã 17:52, Christophe Leroy a ÃcritÂ:
When switching powerpc to CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK, include/sched.h
has to be included in asm/smp.h for the following change, in order
to avoid uncomplete definition of task_struct:

-#define raw_smp_processor_id() (current_thread_info()->cpu)
+#define raw_smp_processor_id() (current->cpu)

But this generates the following compilation error, due to circular
header dependency.

ÂÂÂ CCÂÂÂÂÂ kernel/time/alarmtimer.o
In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h:31,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/smp.h:64,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/percpu.h:7,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/hrtimer.h:22,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from kernel/time/alarmtimer.c:19:
./include/linux/sched.h:558:19: error: field 'dl_timer' has incomplete type
ÂÂÂ struct hrtimerÂÂ dl_timer;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^~~~~~~~
./include/linux/sched.h:567:17: error: field 'inactive_timer' has incomplete type
ÂÂÂ struct hrtimer inactive_timer;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[1]: *** [kernel/time/alarmtimer.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel/time/alarmtimer.o] Error 2

ÂÂÂ CCÂÂÂÂÂ fs/timerfd.o
In file included from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h:31,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/smp.h:64,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/percpu.h:7,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/hrtimer.h:22,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from ./include/linux/alarmtimer.h:6,
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ from fs/timerfd.c:12:
./include/linux/sched.h:558:19: error: field 'dl_timer' has incomplete type
ÂÂÂ struct hrtimerÂÂ dl_timer;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^~~~~~~~
./include/linux/sched.h:567:17: error: field 'inactive_timer' has incomplete type
ÂÂÂ struct hrtimer inactive_timer;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[1]: *** [fs/timerfd.o] Error 1
make: *** [fs/timerfd.o] Error 2

This patch fixes it by including linux/hrtimer.h after linux/sched.h

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
---
ÂÂ Should it be fixed in powerpc instead ? In that case, how ? Any idea ?


Looks like there are several other places where the problem occurs, so it
has to be fixed in the powerpc headers instead.

Seems like RISC arch faced the same issue, and fixed it the following way:

/*
 * This is particularly ugly: it appears we can't actually get the
definition
 * of task_struct here, but we need access to the CPU this task is running
on.
 * Instead of using C we're using asm-offsets.h to get the current processor
 * ID.
 */
#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*((int*)((char*)get_current() +
TASK_TI_CPU)))


Unless someone has a better idea, I'll fixed it that way.

To solve this on arm64 we made the cpu number a percpu variable; see
commit:

ÂÂ 57c82954e77fa12c ("arm64: make cpu number a percpu variable")

Thanks, I'll have a look

IIUC, you could do that by placing it in paca_struct.

By the way, it is already in PACA struct for PPC64.
The issue is with PPC32, up to now it was in current_thread_info:

#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
#define raw_smp_processor_id()ÂÂÂ (local_paca->paca_index)
#define hard_smp_processor_id() (get_paca()->hw_cpu_id)
#else
/* 32-bit */
extern int smp_hw_index[];

#define raw_smp_processor_id()ÂÂÂ (current_thread_info()->cpu)
#define hard_smp_processor_id()ÂÂÂÂ (smp_hw_index[smp_processor_id()])

[..]

#endif


It seems not that easy. Adding the following leads to the below failure. I'm having a hard time identifying and fixing the issue. Looks again like a circular thing, because linux/percpu-defs.h is where raw_cpu_ptr() is defined.

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -83,7 +83,14 @@ int is_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu);
/* 32-bit */
extern int smp_hw_index[];

-#define raw_smp_processor_id() (current_thread_info()->cpu)
+DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(unsigned int, cpu_number);
+
+/*
+ * We don't use this_cpu_read(cpu_number) as that has implicit writes to
+ * preempt_count, and associated (compiler) barriers, that we'd like to avoid
+ * the expense of. If we're preemptible, the value can be stale at use anyway.
+ */
+#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_number))
#define hard_smp_processor_id() (smp_hw_index[smp_processor_id()])

static inline int get_hard_smp_processor_id(int cpu)


CC arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
In file included from ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:64:0,
from <command-line>:0:
./include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h: In function 'percpu_down_read_preempt_disable':
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:254:27: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_cpu_ptr' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
#define this_cpu_ptr(ptr) raw_cpu_ptr(ptr)
^
./include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:58:26: note: in definition of macro 'RELOC_HIDE'
(typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); \
^
./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:44:31: note: in expansion of macro 'SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR'
#define arch_raw_cpu_ptr(ptr) SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(ptr, __my_cpu_offset)
^
./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:31:25: note: in expansion of macro 'per_cpu_offset'
#define __my_cpu_offset per_cpu_offset(raw_smp_processor_id())
^
./arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h:93:35: note: in expansion of macro 'this_cpu_ptr'
#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_number))
^
./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:31:40: note: in expansion of macro 'raw_smp_processor_id'
#define __my_cpu_offset per_cpu_offset(raw_smp_processor_id())
^
./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:44:53: note: in expansion of macro '__my_cpu_offset'
#define arch_raw_cpu_ptr(ptr) SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(ptr, __my_cpu_offset)
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:244:2: note: in expansion of macro 'arch_raw_cpu_ptr'
arch_raw_cpu_ptr(ptr); \
^
./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:76:3: note: in expansion of macro 'raw_cpu_ptr'
*raw_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)) op val; \
^
./include/asm-generic/percpu.h:225:34: note: in expansion of macro 'raw_cpu_generic_to_op'
#define raw_cpu_add_1(pcp, val) raw_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, +=)
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:379:11: note: in expansion of macro 'raw_cpu_add_1'
case 1: stem##1(variable, __VA_ARGS__);break; \
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:424:32: note: in expansion of macro '__pcpu_size_call'
#define raw_cpu_add(pcp, val) __pcpu_size_call(raw_cpu_add_, pcp, val)
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:460:2: note: in expansion of macro 'raw_cpu_add'
raw_cpu_add(pcp, val); \
^
./include/linux/percpu-defs.h:499:30: note: in expansion of macro '__this_cpu_add'
#define __this_cpu_inc(pcp) __this_cpu_add(pcp, 1)
^
./include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:47:2: note: in expansion of macro '__this_cpu_inc'
__this_cpu_inc(*sem->read_count);
^
./arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h:93:34: error: invalid type argument of unary '*' (have 'int')
#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_number))
^


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