Re: [PATCH v4 12/22] lib/stackdepot: use read/write lock

[Marco Elver]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 02:24, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:15:05PM +0100, Marco Elver wrote:
> > +             /*
> > +              * Stack traces of size 0 are never saved, and we can simply use
> > +              * the size field as an indicator if this is a new unused stack
> > +              * record in the freelist.
> > +              */
> > +             stack->size = 0;
>
> I would use WRITE_ONCE here too, at least for TSan.

This is written with the pool_lock held.

> > +             return NULL;
> > +
> > +     /*
> > +      * We maintain the invariant that the elements in front are least
> > +      * recently used, and are therefore more likely to be associated with an
> > +      * RCU grace period in the past. Consequently it is sufficient to only
> > +      * check the first entry.
> > +      */
> > +     stack = list_first_entry(&free_stacks, struct stack_record, free_list);
> > +     if (stack->size && !poll_state_synchronize_rcu(stack->rcu_state))
>
> READ_ONCE (also for TSan, and might be safer long term in case the
> compiler considers some fancy code transformation)

And this is also only read with the pool_lock held, so it's impossible
that there'd be a data race due to size. (And if there is a data race,
I'd want KCSAN to tell us because that'd be a bug then.)
depot_pop_free() can't be used w/o the lock because it's manipulating
the freelist.
To be sure, I'm adding a lockdep_assert_held() to depot_pop_free().

> > +             return NULL;
> >
> > +             stack = depot_pop_free();
> > +             if (WARN_ON(!stack))
>
> Won't you get nesting problems here if this triggers due to the print?
> I assume the nmi safe printk won't consider it like an NMI.
>
> >       counters[DEPOT_COUNTER_FREELIST_SIZE]++;
> >       counters[DEPOT_COUNTER_FREES]++;
> >       counters[DEPOT_COUNTER_INUSE]--;
> > +
> > +     printk_deferred_exit();
>
> Ah this handles the WARN_ON? Should be ok then.

Yes, the pool_lock critical sections are surrounded by printk_deferred.

Thanks,
-- Marco