netdev - Re: [RCU PATCH 06/14] net: sched: fw use RCU

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Date:	Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:28:34 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
	jhs@...atatu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [RCU PATCH 06/14] net: sched: fw use RCU

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:43:32PM -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 03/13/2014 02:15 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 01:56:43PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >>On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:22 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hmmm...  You know, the offset that kfree uses is a byte offset.  I see
> >>>no reason why any of the rcu_head structures should be misaligned.  If
> >>>HTSIZE is too big by only a factor of four or smaller, would the following
> >>>(untested) patch to RCU be appropriate?
> >>>
> >>>							Thanx, Paul
> >>>
> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>rcu: Increase kfree_rcu() offset range
> >>>
> >>>The kfree_rcu() function operates by placing an offset into the rcu_head
> >>>structure in place of the function pointer that is normally there.
> >>>This offset cannot exceed 4095, on the theory that no Linux kernel will
> >>>ever have executable code in page zero.  However, the rcu_head structure
> >>>contains a pair of function pointers, and should never be misaligned.
> >>>This commit therefore divides the offset by the size of a pointer when
> >>>being placed into the rcu_head structure, and multiplies it by this
> >>>same constant when pulling it out.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>
> >>SGTM, thanks Paul.
> >>
> >>Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumzzet@...gle.com>
> >
> >Very good, thank you!
> >
> >John, could you please give it a try with that rcu_head structure
> >moved to the end and let me know how it goes?
> >
> >							Thanx, Paul
> >
> 
> Yep, this resolves the BUILD_BUG_ON I was seeing previously. Thanks!
> 
> Tested-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Thank you, John!

Now I just need to figure out why it -causes- a BUILD_BUG_ON for the
cris and m68k architectures in Fengguang Wu's testing...

							Thanx, Paul

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