From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760251Ab3JPIni (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 04:43:38 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:48731 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760029Ab3JPInf (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 04:43:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:43:22 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Tejun Heo , akpm@linuxfoundation.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount. Message-ID: <20131016084322.GR10651@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20131015174722.615394057@linux.com> <20131015174746.793436648@linux.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131015174746.793436648@linux.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:47:26PM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote: > The initialization of a structure is not subject to synchronization. > The use of __this_cpu would trigger a false positive with the > additional preemption checks for __this_cpu ops. > > So simply disable the check through the use of raw_cpu ops. > > Trace: > > [ 0.668066] __this_cpu_write operation in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/286 > [ 0.668108] caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 > [ 0.668111] CPU: 3 PID: 286 Comm: modprobe Tainted: GF 3.12.0-rc4+ #187 > [ 0.668112] Hardware name: FUJITSU CELSIUS W530 Power/D3227-A1, BIOS V4.6.5.4 R1.10.0 for D3227-A1x 09/16/2013 > [ 0.668113] 0000000000000003 ffff8807edda1d18 ffffffff816d5a57 ffff8807edda1fd8 > [ 0.668117] ffff8807edda1d48 ffffffff8137359c ffff8807edda1ef8 ffffffffa0002178 > [ 0.668121] ffffc90000067730 ffff8807edda1e48 ffff8807edda1d88 ffffffff813735f8 > [ 0.668124] Call Trace: > [ 0.668129] [] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 > [ 0.668132] [] check_preemption_disabled+0xec/0x110 > [ 0.668135] [] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 > [ 0.668139] [] load_module+0xcfd/0x2650 > [ 0.668143] [] ? page_fault+0x22/0x30 > [ 0.668146] [] SyS_init_module+0xa6/0xd0 > [ 0.668150] [] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 > > > > Cc: Rusty Russell > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter > > Index: linux/kernel/module.c > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/kernel/module.c 2013-09-05 13:43:30.557687773 -0500 > +++ linux/kernel/module.c 2013-10-07 12:33:43.732059759 -0500 > @@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ static int module_unload_init(struct mod > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mod->target_list); > > /* Hold reference count during initialization. */ > - __this_cpu_write(mod->refptr->incs, 1); > + raw_cpu_write(mod->refptr->incs, 1); Just add: Safe to use raw because we're the only user. So we all instantly know. > /* Backwards compatibility macros put refcount during init. */ > mod->waiter = current; > >