Re: [PATCH v2] locking/qspinlock: Do spin-wait in slowpath if preemptible

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 9/20/22 15:55, Waiman Long wrote:
> There are some code paths in the kernel where arch_spin_lock() will be
> called directly when the lock isn't expected to be contended and critical
> section is short. For example, tracing_saved_cmdlines_size_read()
> in kernel/trace/trace.c does that.
>
> In most cases, preemption is also not disabled. This creates a problem
> for the qspinlock slowpath which expects preemption to be disabled
> to guarantee the safe use of per cpu qnodes structure. To work around
> these special use cases, add a preemption count check in the slowpath
> and do a simple spin-wait when preemption isn't disabled.
>
> Fixes: a33fda35e3a7 ("Introduce a simple generic 4-byte queued spinlock")
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

On second thought, I believe the proper way to fix this is to make sure 
that all the callers of arch_spin_lock() has preemption properly 
disabled. Will work on another patch set to do that. So please ignore 
this patch and sorry for the noise.

Cheers,
Longman