Re: [PATCH 4/5] kcov: Avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task().

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 at 19:26, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> kcov_remote_start() may need to allocate memory in the in_task() case
> (otherwise per-CPU memory has been pre-allocated) and therefore requires
> enabled interrupts.
> The interrupts are enabled before checking if the allocation is required
> so if no allocation is required then the interrupts are needlessly
> enabled and disabled again.
>
> Enable interrupts only if memory allocation is performed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  kernel/kcov.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
> index 4f910231d99a2..620dc4ffeb685 100644
> --- a/kernel/kcov.c
> +++ b/kernel/kcov.c
> @@ -869,19 +869,19 @@ void kcov_remote_start(u64 handle)
>                 size = CONFIG_KCOV_IRQ_AREA_SIZE;
>                 area = this_cpu_ptr(&kcov_percpu_data)->irq_area;
>         }
> -       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kcov_remote_lock, flags);
> +       spin_unlock(&kcov_remote_lock);
>
>         /* Can only happen when in_task(). */
>         if (!area) {
> +               local_irqrestore(flags);
>                 area = vmalloc(size * sizeof(unsigned long));
>                 if (!area) {
>                         kcov_put(kcov);
>                         return;
>                 }
> +               local_irq_save(flags);
>         }
>
> -       local_irq_save(flags);
> -
>         /* Reset coverage size. */
>         *(u64 *)area = 0;
>
> --
> 2.33.0
>