On 24/07/2020 15:59, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Alexey Kardashevskiy's message of July 24, 2020 2:16 pm:
>>
>>
>> On 23/07/2020 23:11, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>> Excerpts from Peter Zijlstra's message of July 23, 2020 9:40 pm:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 08:56:14PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>>>>> index 3a0db7b0b46e..35060be09073 100644
>>>>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>>>>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
>>>>> @@ -200,17 +200,14 @@ static inline bool arch_irqs_disabled(void)
>>>>> #define powerpc_local_irq_pmu_save(flags) \
>>>>> do { \
>>>>> raw_local_irq_pmu_save(flags); \
>>>>> - trace_hardirqs_off(); \
>>>>> + if (!raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) \
>>>>> + trace_hardirqs_off(); \
>>>>> } while(0)
>>>>> #define powerpc_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags) \
>>>>> do { \
>>>>> - if (raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) { \
>>>>> - raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags); \
>>>>> - trace_hardirqs_off(); \
>>>>> - } else { \
>>>>> + if (!raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) \
>>>>> trace_hardirqs_on(); \
>>>>> - raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags); \
>>>>> - } \
>>>>> + raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags); \
>>>>> } while(0)
>>>>
>>>> You shouldn't be calling lockdep from NMI context!
>>>
>>> After this patch it doesn't.
>>>
>>> trace_hardirqs_on/off implementation appears to expect to be called in NMI
>>> context though, for some reason.
>>>
>>>> That is, I recently
>>>> added suport for that on x86:
>>>>
>>>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.155449112@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623083721.216740948@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> But you need to be very careful on how you order things, as you can see
>>>> the above relies on preempt_count() already having been incremented with
>>>> NMI_MASK.
>>>
>>> Hmm. My patch seems simpler.
>>
>> And your patches fix my error while Peter's do not:
>>
>>
>> IRQs not enabled as expected
>> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1377 at /home/aik/p/kernel/kernel/softirq.c:169
>> __local_bh_enable_ip+0x118/0x190
>
> I think they would have needed some powerpc bits as well.
True, there is quite a lot to repeat of what x86 does, I was in a hurry
and did not think it through :)
> But I don't
> see a reason we can't merge my patches, at least they fix this case and
> don't seem to make things worse in any way.
True. Or we could keep these lockdep_stats::redundant_softirqs_on/etc
and make powerpc_local_irq_pmu_restore()/local_irq_restore() call
trace_hardirqs_on() always and let lockdep do reference counting, may be?
--
Alexey
