Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Avoid RCU stalls when freeing metadata for per-CPU pointers

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On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 03:50:55PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Fri,  1 Dec 2023 19:08:29 +0000 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > @@ -1472,14 +1474,27 @@ static void scan_object(struct kmemleak_object *object)
> >  		/* already freed object */
> >  		goto out;
> >  
> > -	obj_ptr = object->flags & OBJECT_PHYS ?
> > -		  __va((phys_addr_t)object->pointer) :
> > -		  (void *)object->pointer;
> > +	if (object->flags & OBJECT_PERCPU) {
> > +		unsigned int cpu;
> >  
> > -	if (hlist_empty(&object->area_list) ||
> > +		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> > +			void *start = per_cpu_ptr((void __percpu *)object->pointer, cpu);
> > +			void *end = start + object->size;
> > +
> > +			scan_block(start, end, object);
> > +
> > +			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
> > +			cond_resched();
> > +			raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&object->lock, flags);
> 
> Nit, spin_lock/unlock can be collapsed into need_resched().
> 
> 			if (need_resched()) {
> 				raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&object->lock, flags);
> 				cond_resched();
> 				raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&object->lock, flags);
> 			}

The reason I'd not do this is that we also want the interrupts to be
re-enabled regularly. Keeping them disabled may not even mark the
current thread as need_resched().

-- 
Catalin




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