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Message-ID: <CAG2=9p_EvgG_3-RHFGRTVYRQZCL988qmEXQjVXenVSkDgbinQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:16:44 +0800
From:   Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lyra Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] trace: fix the errors caused by incompatible
 type of RCU variables

On 8 June 2017 at 02:36, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> On Wed,  7 Jun 2017 16:12:51 +0800
> Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org> wrote:
>
>> The variables which are processed by RCU functions should be annotated
>> as RCU, otherwise sparse will report the errors like below:
>>
>> "error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different
>> address spaces)"
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
>
> Hi,

Hi Steve,

>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> * Addressed Steven's comments
>>   - Use rcu_dereference_protected() instead of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace()
>> * Rebased on v4.12-rc1
>>
>>  include/linux/ftrace.h       |  6 +++---
>>  include/linux/trace_events.h |  2 +-
>>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c        | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>  kernel/trace/trace.h         |  6 +++---
>>  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> index 473f088..056395c7 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
>> @@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ enum {
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>>  /* The hash used to know what functions callbacks trace */
>>  struct ftrace_ops_hash {
>> -     struct ftrace_hash              *notrace_hash;
>> -     struct ftrace_hash              *filter_hash;
>> +     struct ftrace_hash __rcu        *notrace_hash;
>> +     struct ftrace_hash __rcu        *filter_hash;
>>       struct mutex                    regex_lock;
>>  };
>>
>> @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static inline void ftrace_free_init_mem(void) { }
>>   */
>>  struct ftrace_ops {
>>       ftrace_func_t                   func;
>> -     struct ftrace_ops               *next;
>> +     struct ftrace_ops __rcu         *next;
>>       unsigned long                   flags;
>>       void                            *private;
>>       ftrace_func_t                   saved_func;
>> diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
>> index a556805..89f7bd5d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
>> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ enum {
>>  struct trace_event_file {
>>       struct list_head                list;
>>       struct trace_event_call         *event_call;
>> -     struct event_filter             *filter;
>> +     struct event_filter __rcu       *filter;
>>       struct dentry                   *dir;
>>       struct trace_array              *tr;
>>       struct trace_subsystem_dir      *system;
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
>> index 39dca4e..116742b 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
>> @@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ static int ftrace_disabled __read_mostly;
>>
>>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(ftrace_lock);
>>
>> -static struct ftrace_ops *ftrace_ops_list __read_mostly = &ftrace_list_end;
>> +static struct ftrace_ops __rcu *
>> +             ftrace_ops_list __read_mostly = &ftrace_list_end;
>
> I may fix this myself, but newlines like the above is IMHO uglier than

Good, thanks.

> going over 80 characters. I much rather keep it on one line.
>
>>  ftrace_func_t ftrace_trace_function __read_mostly = ftrace_stub;
>>  static struct ftrace_ops global_ops;
>>
>> @@ -169,8 +170,11 @@ int ftrace_nr_registered_ops(void)
>>
>>       mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
>>
>> -     for (ops = ftrace_ops_list;
>> -          ops != &ftrace_list_end; ops = ops->next)
>> +     for (ops = rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_ops_list,
>> +                                          lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock));
>> +          ops != &ftrace_list_end;
>> +          ops = rcu_dereference_protected(ops->next,
>> +                                          lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock)))
>>               cnt++;
>>
>>       mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);
>> @@ -275,10 +279,11 @@ static void update_ftrace_function(void)
>>        * If there's only one ftrace_ops registered, the ftrace_ops_list
>>        * will point to the ops we want.
>>        */
>> -     set_function_trace_op = ftrace_ops_list;
>> +     set_function_trace_op = rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_ops_list,
>> +                                             lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock));
>>
>>       /* If there's no ftrace_ops registered, just call the stub function */
>> -     if (ftrace_ops_list == &ftrace_list_end) {
>> +     if (set_function_trace_op == &ftrace_list_end) {
>
> Slight change of code, but shouldn't have any affect on the flow.
>
>>               func = ftrace_stub;
>>
>>       /*
>> @@ -286,7 +291,8 @@ static void update_ftrace_function(void)
>>        * recursion safe and not dynamic and the arch supports passing ops,
>>        * then have the mcount trampoline call the function directly.
>>        */
>> -     } else if (ftrace_ops_list->next == &ftrace_list_end) {
>> +     } else if (rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_ops_list->next,
>> +                     lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock)) == &ftrace_list_end) {
>>               func = ftrace_ops_get_list_func(ftrace_ops_list);
>>
>>       } else {
>> @@ -348,9 +354,11 @@ int using_ftrace_ops_list_func(void)
>>       return ftrace_trace_function == ftrace_ops_list_func;
>>  }
>>
>> -static void add_ftrace_ops(struct ftrace_ops **list, struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>> +static void add_ftrace_ops(struct ftrace_ops __rcu **list,
>> +                        struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>>  {
>> -     ops->next = *list;
>> +     rcu_assign_pointer(ops->next, *list);
>> +
>>       /*
>>        * We are entering ops into the list but another
>>        * CPU might be walking that list. We need to make sure
>> @@ -360,7 +368,8 @@ static void add_ftrace_ops(struct ftrace_ops **list, struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>>       rcu_assign_pointer(*list, ops);
>>  }
>>
>> -static int remove_ftrace_ops(struct ftrace_ops **list, struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>> +static int remove_ftrace_ops(struct ftrace_ops __rcu **list,
>> +                          struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>>  {
>>       struct ftrace_ops **p;
>>
>> @@ -368,7 +377,10 @@ static int remove_ftrace_ops(struct ftrace_ops **list, struct ftrace_ops *ops)
>>        * If we are removing the last function, then simply point
>>        * to the ftrace_stub.
>>        */
>> -     if (*list == ops && ops->next == &ftrace_list_end) {
>> +     if (rcu_dereference_protected(*list,
>> +                     lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock)) == ops &&
>> +         rcu_dereference_protected(ops->next,
>> +                     lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock)) == &ftrace_list_end) {
>>               *list = &ftrace_list_end;
>>               return 0;
>>       }
>> @@ -1513,8 +1525,8 @@ ftrace_ops_test(struct ftrace_ops *ops, unsigned long ip, void *regs)
>>               return 0;
>>  #endif
>>
>> -     hash.filter_hash = rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(ops->func_hash->filter_hash);
>> -     hash.notrace_hash = rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(ops->func_hash->notrace_hash);
>> +     rcu_assign_pointer(hash.filter_hash, ops->func_hash->filter_hash);
>> +     rcu_assign_pointer(hash.notrace_hash, ops->func_hash->notrace_hash);
>>
>>       if (hash_contains_ip(ip, &hash))
>>               ret = 1;
>> @@ -2784,7 +2796,8 @@ static int ftrace_shutdown(struct ftrace_ops *ops, int command)
>>        * If there's no more ops registered with ftrace, run a
>>        * sanity check to make sure all rec flags are cleared.
>>        */
>> -     if (ftrace_ops_list == &ftrace_list_end) {
>> +     if (rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_ops_list,
>> +                     lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock)) == &ftrace_list_end) {
>>               struct ftrace_page *pg;
>>               struct dyn_ftrace *rec;
>>
>> @@ -6122,7 +6135,8 @@ ftrace_enable_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
>>       if (ftrace_enabled) {
>>
>>               /* we are starting ftrace again */
>> -             if (ftrace_ops_list != &ftrace_list_end)
>> +             if (rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_ops_list,
>> +                     lockdep_is_held(&ftrace_lock)) != &ftrace_list_end)
>>                       update_ftrace_function();
>>
>>               ftrace_startup_sysctl();
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
>> index 291a1bc..60b26b4 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
>> @@ -1183,9 +1183,9 @@ struct ftrace_event_field {
>>  struct event_filter {
>>       int                     n_preds;        /* Number assigned */
>>       int                     a_preds;        /* allocated */
>> -     struct filter_pred      *preds;
>> -     struct filter_pred      *root;
>> -     char                    *filter_string;
>> +     struct filter_pred __rcu        *preds;
>> +     struct filter_pred __rcu        *root;
>> +     char                            *filter_string;
>>  };
>>
>>  struct event_subsystem {
>
> So far looks fine. I'll run it through my tests and see if it triggers
> any lockdep issues.

Thank you for the review and test,
Chunyan

>
> -- Steve

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