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Message-ID: <20151101225620.GA28272@Alexeis-MacBook-Pro.local>
Date:	Sun, 1 Nov 2015 14:56:22 -0800
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Yang Shi <yang.shi@...aro.org>, ast@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: convert hashtab lock to raw lock

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 09:47:36AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:03:58 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 03:16:26PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > > When running bpf samples on rt kernel, it reports the below warning:
> > > 
> > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:917
> > > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 477, name: ping
> > > Preemption disabled at:[<ffff80000017db58>] kprobe_perf_func+0x30/0x228  
> > ...
> > > diff --git a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
> > > index 83c209d..972b76b 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
> > > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> > >  struct bpf_htab {
> > >  	struct bpf_map map;
> > >  	struct hlist_head *buckets;
> > > -	spinlock_t lock;
> > > +	raw_spinlock_t lock;  
> > 
> > How do we address such things in general?
> > I bet there are tons of places around the kernel that
> > call spin_lock from atomic.
> > I'd hate to lose the benefits of lockdep of non-raw spin_lock
> > just to make rt happy.
> 
> You wont lose any benefits of lockdep. Lockdep still checks
> raw_spin_lock(). The only difference between raw_spin_lock and
> spin_lock is that in -rt spin_lock turns into an rt_mutex() and
> raw_spin_lock stays a spin lock.

I see. The patch makes sense then.
Would be good to document this peculiarity of spin_lock.

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