Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751824AbdGMJvO (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:51:14 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:42518 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751586AbdGMJvM (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2017 05:51:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:50:52 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Byungchul Park Cc: mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, walken@google.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, kirill@shutemov.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org, npiggin@gmail.com, kernel-team@lge.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/16] lockdep: Detect and handle hist_lock ring buffer overwrite Message-ID: <20170713095052.dssev34f7c43vlok@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1495616389-29772-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <1495616389-29772-7-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <20170711161232.GB28975@worktop> <20170712020053.GB20323@X58A-UD3R> <20170712075617.o2jds2giuoqxjqic@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20170713020745.GG20323@X58A-UD3R> <20170713081442.GA439@worktop> <20170713085746.GH20323@X58A-UD3R> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170713085746.GH20323@X58A-UD3R> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2094 Lines: 94 On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 05:57:46PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:14:42AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:07:45AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > > > Does my approach have problems, rewinding to 'original idx' on exit and > > > deciding whether overwrite or not? I think, this way, no need to do the > > > drastic work. Or.. does my one get more overhead in usual case? > > > > So I think that invalidating just the one entry doesn't work; the moment > > I think invalidating just the one is enough. After rewinding, the entry > will be invalidated and the ring buffer starts to be filled forward from > the point with valid ones. When commit, it will proceed backward with > valid ones until meeting the invalidated entry and stop. > > IOW, in case of (overwritten) > > rewind to here > | > ppppppppppiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii > iiiiiiiiiiiiiii > > invalidate it on exit_irq > and start to fill from here again > | > pppppppppxiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii > iiiiiiiiiiiiiii > > when commit occurs here > | > pppppppppxpppppppppppiiiii > > do commit within this range > |<---------| > pppppppppxpppppppppppiiiii > > So I think this works and is much simple. Anything I missed? wait_for_completion(&C); atomic_inc_return(); mutex_lock(A1); mutex_unlock(A1); spin_lock(B1); spin_unlock(B1); ... spin_lock(B64); spin_unlock(B64); mutex_lock(A2); mutex_unlock(A2); complete(&C); That gives: xhist[ 0] = A1 xhist[ 1] = B1 ... xhist[63] = B63 then we wrap and have: xhist[0] = B64 then we rewind to 1 and invalidate to arrive at: xhist[ 0] = B64 xhist[ 1] = NULL <-- idx xhist[ 2] = B2 ... xhist[63] = B63 Then we do A2 and get xhist[ 0] = B64 xhist[ 1] = A2 <-- idx xhist[ 2] = B2 ... xhist[63] = B63 and the commit_xhlocks() will happily create links between C and A2, B2..B64. The C<->A2 link is desired, the C<->B* are not.