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 21:08:12 +0200:

> On 06/28/2012 12:35 PM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> >>> +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.
> 
> incremental rather than complete, right?

Actually I was working on it.

> > 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;
> 
> That loop is going to continue anyway, since that code is right at the
> end of the loop. Don't you want to replace that if block with:
> 
> if (err != -EAGAIN)
>     goto err_alloc_pdir;
> 
> ?

Yes, I also found. I'll send the update one tomorrow.

> Also, the first thinig that alloc_pdir does is:
> 
>         if (as->pdir_page)
>                 return 0;
> 
> It seems that should be removed completely, right? Since having the
> pdir_page already allocated is an error.

Yes. I thought that could be another patch. Same for the original code.
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