From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1494FC00A8F for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234244AbjJXKx5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:53:57 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:33392 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234432AbjJXKxz (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:53:55 -0400 Received: from out30-119.freemail.mail.aliyun.com (out30-119.freemail.mail.aliyun.com [115.124.30.119]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E0EBD7B for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:53:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R101e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;DS=||;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=ay29a033018046059;MF=xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=7;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0VuqAa21_1698144824; Received: from localhost(mailfrom:xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0VuqAa21_1698144824) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:53:45 +0800 Message-ID: <1698144808.8577316-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] virtio_pci: Don't make an extra copy of cpu affinity mask Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:53:28 +0800 From: Xuan Zhuo To: Jakub Sitnicki Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@cloudflare.com, Caleb Raitto , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org References: <20231019101625.412936-1-jakub@cloudflare.com> <1697720122.49851-2-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> <87il6x2rj6.fsf@cloudflare.com> <1698114697.434748-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> <87edhk2z03.fsf@cloudflare.com> In-Reply-To: <87edhk2z03.fsf@cloudflare.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:17:19 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 10:31 AM +08, Xuan Zhuo wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:52:45 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 08:55 PM +08, Xuan Zhuo wrote: > >> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:16:24 +0200, Jakub Sitnicki wrote: > >> >> Since commit 19e226e8cc5d ("virtio: Make vp_set_vq_affinity() take a > >> >> mask.") it is actually not needed to have a local copy of the cpu mask. > >> > > >> > > >> > Could you give more info to prove this? > > > > > > Actually, my question is that can we pass a val on the stack(or temp value) to > > the irq_set_affinity_hint()? > > > > Such as the virtio-net uses zalloc_cpumask_var to alloc a cpu_mask, and > > that will be released. > > > > > > > > int __irq_apply_affinity_hint(unsigned int irq, const struct cpumask *m, > > bool setaffinity) > > { > > unsigned long flags; > > struct irq_desc *desc = irq_get_desc_lock(irq, &flags, IRQ_GET_DESC_CHECK_GLOBAL); > > > > if (!desc) > > return -EINVAL; > > -> desc->affinity_hint = m; > > irq_put_desc_unlock(desc, flags); > > if (m && setaffinity) > > __irq_set_affinity(irq, m, false); > > return 0; > > } > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__irq_apply_affinity_hint); > > > > The above code directly refers the mask pointer. If the mask is a temp value, I > > think that is a bug. > > You are completely right. irq_set_affinity_hint stores the mask pointer. > irq_affinity_hint_proc_show later dereferences it when user reads out > /proc/irq/*/affinity_hint. > > I have failed to notice that. That's why we need cpumask_copy to stay. > > My patch is buggy. Please disregard. > > I will send a v2 to only migrate from deprecated irq_set_affinity_hint. > > > And I notice that many places directly pass the temp value to this API. > > And I am a little confused. ^_^ Or I missed something. > > There seem two be two gropus of callers: > > 1. Those that use get_cpu_mask/cpumask_of/cpumask_of_node to produce a > cpumask pointer which is a preallocated constant. > > $ weggli 'irq_set_affinity_hint(_, $func(_));' ~/src/linux > > 2. Those that pass a pointer to memory somewhere. > > $ weggli 'irq_set_affinity_hint(_, $mask);' ~/src/linux > > (weggli tool can be found at https://github.com/weggli-rs/weggli) > > I've looked over the callers from group #2 but I couldn't find any > passing a pointer memory on stack :-) Pls check stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi() Thanks. > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > [...]