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tag namelocking-urgent-2020-08-10 (fe5ec10524c3a2db944ce2527dfc83026698a3e3)
tag date2020-08-10 20:59:02 +0200
tagged byThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
tagged objectcommit 0cd39f4600...
downloadlinux-locking-urgent-2020-08-10.tar.gz
A set of locking fixes and updates:
- Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible. - The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the above fallout. seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep cannot validate that the lock is held. This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks. sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that the lock is held. Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has been moved up. Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs which have been addressed already independent of this. While generaly useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section. - Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and initializers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJHBAABCgAxFiEEQp8+kY+LLUocC4bMphj1TA10mKEFAl8xmPYTHHRnbHhAbGlu dXRyb25peC5kZQAKCRCmGPVMDXSYoTuQEACyzQCjU8PgehPp9oMqWzaX2fcVyuZO QU2yw6gmz2oTz3ZHUNwdW8UnzGh2OWosK3kDruoD9FtSS51lER1/ISfSPCGfyqxC KTjOcB1Kvxwq/3LcCx7Zi3ZxWApat74qs3EhYhKtEiQ2Y9xv9rLq8VV1UWAwyxq0 eHpjlIJ6b6rbt+ARslaB7drnccOsdK+W/roNj4kfyt+gezjBfojGRdMGQNMFcpnv shuTC+vYurAVIiVA/0IuizgHfwZiXOtVpjVoEWaxg6bBH6HNuYMYzdSa/YrlDkZs n/aBI/Xkvx+Eacu8b1Zwmbzs5EnikUK/2dMqbzXKUZK61eV4hX5c2xrnr1yGWKTs F/juh69Squ7X6VZyKVgJ9RIccVueqwR2EprXWgH3+RMice5kjnXH4zURp0GHALxa DFPfB6fawcH3Ps87kcRFvjgm6FBo0hJ1AxmsW1dY4ACFB9azFa2euW+AARDzHOy2 VRsUdhL9CGwtPjXcZ/9Rhej6fZLGBXKr8uq5QiMuvttp4b6+j9FEfBgD4S6h8csl AT2c2I9LcbWqyUM9P4S7zY/YgOZw88vHRuDH7tEBdIeoiHfrbSBU7EQ9jlAKq/59 f+Htu2Io281c005g7DEeuCYvpzSYnJnAitj5Lmp/kzk2Wn3utY1uIAVszqwf95Ul 81ppn2KlvzUK8g== =7Gj+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----