linux-kernel - [01/04 mm-patch, rfc] Add lightweight rwlock (was Re: [mm-patch] bluetooth: use GFP_ATOMIC in *_sock_create's sk

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:15:17 +0200
From:	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, acme@...driva.com, marcel@...tmann.org, jet@...e.org
Subject: [01/04 mm-patch, rfc] Add lightweight rwlock (was Re: [mm-patch] bluetooth: use GFP_ATOMIC in *_sock_create's sk_alloc)

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:12:52PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> Hi,
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:17:56PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> > > > I think that the bluetooth-guard-bt_proto-with-rwlock.patch introduced the following
> > > > BUG:
> > > > [   43.232000] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2903
> > > > [   43.232000] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c0104114>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x197/0x1ba
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c010415e>] show_trace+0x27/0x29
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c010426e>] dump_stack+0x26/0x28
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c011ad1c>] __might_sleep+0xa2/0xaa
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c0173085>] __kmalloc+0x9c/0xb3
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c02f9295>] sk_alloc+0x1bc/0x1de
> > > > [   43.232000]  [<c036d689>] hci_sock_create+0x42/0x8a
> > > > [   43.236000]  [<c0366f40>] bt_sock_create+0xb5/0x154
> > > > [   43.236000]  [<c02f69dc>] __sock_create+0x131/0x356
> > > > [   43.236000]  [<c02f6c2f>] sock_create+0x2e/0x30
> > > > [   43.236000]  [<c02f6c88>] sys_socket+0x27/0x53
> > > > [   43.240000]  [<c02f7db5>] sys_socketcall+0xa9/0x277
> > > > [   43.240000]  [<c0103131>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x8d
> > > > [   43.240000]  [<b7f38410>] 0xb7f38410
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This patch makes sk_alloc GFP_ATOMIC, because we are holding the bt_proto_rwlock, for
> > > > the following functions:
> > > > - bnep_sock_create
> > > > - cmtp_sock_create
> > > > - hci_sock_create
> > > > - hidp_sock_create
> > > > - l2cap_sock_create
> > > > - rfcomm_sock_create
> > > > - sco_sock_create
> > > 
> > > There is very similar code in i net/socket.c(I guess some part of
> > > bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c is derived from net/socket.c):
> > > 
> > [... skip net/socket.c code ...]
> > > 
> > > So there are two ways to avoid the bug:
> > > 1. As proposed by Frederik, use sk_alloc with GFP_ATOMIC or
> > > 2. use net_family_{read|writ}_{lock|unlock} in af_bluetooth.c.
> > > 
> > I'd say that using a net_family_* like function set is much better,
> > if only in terms of preemptibility. 
> > 
> > I'll write an implementation that allows to use the same code
> > in socket.c and in af_bluetooth.c
> > 
> I found one more similar code set at net/dccp/ccid.c for the same purpose:
OK, thanks, I modified it too.

The following set of patches adds a struct lw_rwlock (for lightweight
rwlock) which contains a spin_lock_t and an atomic_t. It is defined
in include/linux/lw_rwlock.h.

This lw_rwlock aims at protecting structures that are modified very rarely
and quickly. This assumptions allow the reader to merely increment the
atomic_t, allowing it to sleep why the lw_rwlock is help.

There were already two users of this kind of API: net/socket.c to protect
'net_families' and net/dccp/ccid.c to protect 'ccids'. As suggested
by Masatake YAMATO, this looked like good way to protect 'bt_proto'
in net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c as well. This patchset aims at having
only one implementation in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@...il.com>

 include/linux/lw_rwlock.h    |   71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c |   15 ++++-----
 net/dccp/ccid.c              |   63 +++++++-------------------------------
 net/socket.c                 |   58 ++++-------------------------------
 4 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)

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