linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] locking/ww_mutex: add ww_mutex_is_owned_by function v3

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Message-ID: <20180220140252.GU22199@phenom.ffwll.local>
Date:   Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:02:52 +0100
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Christian König 
        <ckoenig.leichtzumerken@...il.com>
Cc:     amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] locking/ww_mutex: add ww_mutex_is_owned_by function
 v3

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 01:58:26PM +0100, Christian König wrote:
> amdgpu needs to verify if userspace sends us valid addresses and the simplest
> way of doing this is to check if the buffer object is locked with the ticket
> of the current submission.
> 
> Clean up the access to the ww_mutex internals by providing a function
> for this and extend the check to the thread owning the underlying mutex.
> 
> v2: split amdgpu changes into separate patch as suggested by Alex
> v3: change logic as suggested by Daniel
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
> ---
>  include/linux/ww_mutex.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ww_mutex.h b/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
> index 39fda195bf78..14e4149d3d9d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ww_mutex.h
> @@ -358,4 +358,21 @@ static inline bool ww_mutex_is_locked(struct ww_mutex *lock)
>  	return mutex_is_locked(&lock->base);
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * ww_mutex_is_owned_by - is the w/w mutex locked by this task in that context
> + * @lock: the mutex to be queried
> + * @ctx: the w/w acquire context to test
> + *
> + * If @ctx is not NULL test if the mutex is owned by this context.
> + * If @ctx is NULL test if the mutex is owned by the current thread.

This is a bit much how and not so much why, but I couldn't come up with a
concise text what was materially better.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>

> + */
> +static inline bool ww_mutex_is_owned_by(struct ww_mutex *lock,
> +					struct ww_acquire_ctx *ctx)
> +{
> +	if (ctx)
> +		return likely(READ_ONCE(lock->ctx) == ctx);
> +	else
> +		return likely(__mutex_owner(&lock->base) == current);
> +}
> +
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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