This variant of fence_get_rcu() takes an RCU protected pointer to a
fence and carefully returns a reference to the fence ensuring that it is
not reallocated as it does. This is required when mixing fences and
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU - although it serves a more pedagogical function atm
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
include/linux/fence.h | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/fence.h b/include/linux/fence.h
index 0d763053f97a..c9c5ba98c302 100644
--- a/include/linux/fence.h
+++ b/include/linux/fence.h
@@ -183,6 +183,16 @@ void fence_release(struct kref *kref);
void fence_free(struct fence *fence);
/**
+ * fence_put - decreases refcount of the fence
+ * @fence: [in] fence to reduce refcount of
+ */
+static inline void fence_put(struct fence *fence)
+{
+ if (fence)
+ kref_put(&fence->refcount, fence_release);
+}
+
+/**
* fence_get - increases refcount of the fence
* @fence: [in] fence to increase refcount of
*
@@ -210,13 +220,49 @@ static inline struct fence *fence_get_rcu(struct fence *fence)
}
/**
- * fence_put - decreases refcount of the fence
- * @fence: [in] fence to reduce refcount of
+ * fence_get_rcu_safe - acquire a reference to an RCU tracked fence
+ * @fence: [in] pointer to fence to increase refcount of
+ *
+ * Function returns NULL if no refcount could be obtained, or the fence.
+ * This function handles acquiring a reference to a fence that may be
+ * reallocated within the RCU grace period (such as with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU),
+ * so long as the caller is using RCU on the pointer to the fence.
+ *
+ * An alternative mechanism is to employ a seqlock to protect a bunch of
+ * fences, such as used by struct reservation_object. When using a seqlock,
+ * the seqlock must be taken before and checked after a reference to the
+ * fence is acquired (as shown here).
+ *
+ * The caller is required to hold the RCU read lock.
*/
-static inline void fence_put(struct fence *fence)
+static inline struct fence *fence_get_rcu_safe(struct fence * __rcu *fencep)
{
- if (fence)
- kref_put(&fence->refcount, fence_release);
+ do {
+ struct fence *fence;
+
+ fence = rcu_dereference(*fencep);
+ if (!fence || !fence_get_rcu(fence))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* The atomic_inc_not_zero() inside fence_get_rcu()
+ * provides a full memory barrier upon success (such as now).
+ * This is paired with the write barrier from assigning
+ * to the __rcu protected fence pointer so that if that
+ * pointer still matches the current fence, we know we
+ * have successfully acquire a reference to it. If it no
+ * longer matches, we are holding a reference to some other
+ * reallocated pointer. This is possible if the allocator
+ * is using a freelist like SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU where the
+ * fence remains valid for the RCU grace period, but it
+ * may be reallocated. When using such allocators, we are
+ * responsible for ensuring the reference we get is to
+ * the right fence, as below.
+ */
+ if (fence == rcu_access_pointer(*fencep))
+ return rcu_pointer_handoff(fence);
+
+ fence_put(fence);
+ } while (1);
}
int fence_signal(struct fence *fence);
--
2.9.3
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