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.
v2: Use lock_map_acquire/release() like fs_reclaim, to avoid confusion
with this being a real mutex (Chris Wilson).
v3: Rebase on top of Glisse's arg rework.
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>
---
include/linux/mmu_notifier.h | 6 ++++++
mm/mmu_notifier.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
index b6c004bd9f6a..9dd38c32fc53 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ enum mmu_notifier_event {
#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
@@ -310,10 +314,12 @@ static inline void mmu_notifier_change_pte(struct mm_struct *mm,
static inline void
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mmu_notifier_range *range)
{
+ lock_map_acquire(&__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map);
if (mm_has_notifiers(range->mm)) {
range->flags |= MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE;
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(range);
}
+ lock_map_release(&__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map);
}
static inline int
diff --git a/mm/mmu_notifier.c b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
index a09e737711d5..33bdaddfb9b1 100644
--- a/mm/mmu_notifier.c
+++ b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@
/* global SRCU for all MMs */
DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(srcu);
+#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+struct lockdep_map __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map = {
+ .name = "mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start"
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start_map);
+#endif
+
/*
* This function allows mmu_notifier::release callback to delay a call to
* a function that will free appropriate resources. The function must be
--
2.20.1
