On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 05:33:58PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Vetter (2018-11-27 17:28:43)
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:50 PM Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Quoting Daniel Vetter (2018-11-27 07:49:18)
> > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:51:06PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > > This is a similar idea to the fs_reclaim fake lockdep lock. It's
> > > > > fairly easy to provoke a specific notifier to be run on a specific
> > > > > range: Just prep it, and then munmap() it.
> > > > >
> > > > > A bit harder, but still doable, is to provoke the mmu notifiers for
> > > > > all the various callchains that might lead to them. But both at the
> > > > > same time is really hard to reliable hit, especially when you want to
> > > > > exercise paths like direct reclaim or compaction, where it's not
> > > > > easy to control what exactly will be unmapped.
> > > > >
> > > > > By introducing a lockdep map to tie them all together we allow lockdep
> > > > > to see a lot more dependencies, without having to actually hit them
> > > > > in a single challchain while testing.
> > > > >
> > > > > Aside: Since I typed this to test i915 mmu notifiers I've only rolled
> > > > > this out for the invaliate_range_start callback. If there's
> > > > > interest, we should probably roll this out to all of them. But my
> > > > > undestanding of core mm is seriously lacking, and I'm not clear on
> > > > > whether we need a lockdep map for each callback, or whether some can
> > > > > be shared.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > Any comments on this one here? This is really the main ingredient for
> > > > catching deadlocks in mmu notifier callbacks. The other two patches are
> > > > more the icing on the cake.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, Daniel
> > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > > include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 7 +++++++
> > > > > mm/mmu_notifier.c | 7 +++++++
> > > > > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> > > > > index 9893a6432adf..a39ba218dbbe 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
> > > > > @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ struct mmu_notifier_ops;
> > > > >
> > > > > #ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER
> > > > >
> > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> > > > > +extern struct lockdep_map __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map;
> > > > > +#endif
> > > > > +
> > > > > /*
> > > > > * The mmu notifier_mm structure is allocated and installed in
> > > > > * mm->mmu_notifier_mm inside the mm_take_all_locks() protected
> > > > > @@ -267,8 +271,11 @@ static inline void mmu_notifier_change_pte(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > > > > static inline void mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > > > > unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> > > > > {
> > > > > + mutex_acquire(&__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map, 0, 0,
> > > > > + _RET_IP_);
> > >
> > > Would not lock_acquire_shared() be more appropriate, i.e. treat this as
> > > a rwsem_acquire_read()?
> >
> > read lock critical sections can't create any dependencies against any
> > other read lock critical section of the same lock. Switching this to a
> > read lock would just render the annotation pointless (if you don't
> > include at least some write lock critical section somewhere, but I
> > have no idea where you'd do that). A read lock that you only ever take
> > for reading essentially doesn't do anything at all.
> >
> > So not clear on why you're suggesting this?
>
> Just that it's not acting as a mutex, so emulating one looks wrong.
Ok, I think switching to lock_map_acquire/release should address that.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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