Re: [v2 1/1] iommu/tegra: smmu: Fix unsleepable memory allocation at alloc_pdir()

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Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote @ Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:57:18 +0200:

> On 06/28/2012 04:51 AM, Hiroshi DOYU wrote:
> > alloc_pdir() is called from smmu_iommu_domain_init() with spin_lock
> > held. memory allocations in alloc_pdir() had to be
> > atomic/unsleepable. Instead of converting into atomic allocation, this
> > patch once releases a lock, do the allocation, hold the lock again and
> > then see if it's raced or not in order to avoid introducing mutex.
> 
> > ---
> 
> You'd typically want to include a brief description of what changed from
> v1->v2 here, as a hint to reviewers re: what to concentrate on.

Ok, I'll.

> > +static int alloc_pdir(struct smmu_as *as, unsigned long *flags)
> 
> > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&as->lock, *flags);
> > +	cnt = devm_kzalloc(smmu->dev,
> > +			   sizeof(cnt[0]) * SMMU_PDIR_COUNT, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA);
> > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&as->lock, *flags);
> > +
> > +	if (as->pdir_page) {
> > +		/* We raced, free the redundant */
> > +		err = -ENODEV;
> > +		goto err_out;
> >  	}
> 
> Is that really an error; it just means that something else allocated the
> same pdir already. Since the top of the function does:
> 
>  	if (as->pdir_page)
>  		return 0;
> 
> I'd expect to s/err = -ENODEV/err = 0/ inside that if condition that I
> quoted above, but still of cause "goto err_out" to free the now unneeded
> allocations.
> 
> Aside from that, I think this looks reasonable.

I think that, in the case of race condition, the one which comes
later, should retry with the another ASID, which is incremented as
below. So I modified that the latter one returns with -EAGAIN, and try
with another ASID.

The complete patch follows this mail.

Changes:
	Modified drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c b/drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c
index ec656ec..f2c18fa 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int alloc_pdir(struct smmu_as *as, unsigned long *flags)
 
 	if (as->pdir_page) {
 		/* We raced, free the redundant */
-		err = -ENODEV;
+		err = -EAGAIN;
 		goto err_out;
 	}
 
@@ -799,8 +799,15 @@ static int smmu_iommu_domain_init(struct iommu_domain *domain)
 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&tmp->lock, flags);
 		if (!tmp->pdir_page) {
-			as = tmp;
-			goto found;
+			int err;
+
+			err = alloc_pdir(tmp, &flags);
+			if (!err) {
+				as = tmp;
+				goto found;
+			}
+			if (err == -EAGAIN)
+				continue;
 		}
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tmp->lock, flags);
 	}
@@ -808,9 +815,6 @@ static int smmu_iommu_domain_init(struct iommu_domain *domain)
 	return -ENODEV;
 
 found:
-	if (alloc_pdir(as, &flags) < 0)
-		goto err_alloc_pdir;
-
 	spin_lock(&smmu->lock);
 
 	/* Update PDIR register */
@@ -826,10 +830,6 @@ found:
 
 	dev_dbg(smmu->dev, "smmu_as@%p\n", as);
 	return 0;
-
-err_alloc_pdir:
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&as->lock, flags);
-	return -ENODEV;
 }
 
 static void smmu_iommu_domain_destroy(struct iommu_domain *domain)
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