Message-ID: <CAFd5g45iHnMLOGQbXwzX6F74pkQGKBCSufkpYPOcw_iNSeiQKg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:30:22 -0700
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>,
        Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@...asonboard.com>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, shuah <shuah@...nel.org>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        devicetree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        kunit-dev@...glegroups.com,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>,
        "Bird, Timothy" <Tim.Bird@...y.com>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Knut Omang <knut.omang@...cle.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, wfg@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/18] kunit: test: add test resource management API

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:24 PM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-07-12 01:17:28)
> > diff --git a/kunit/test.c b/kunit/test.c
> > index 571e4c65deb5c..f165c9d8e10b0 100644
> > --- a/kunit/test.c
> > +++ b/kunit/test.c
> > @@ -171,6 +175,96 @@ int kunit_run_tests(struct kunit_suite *suite)
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > +struct kunit_resource *kunit_alloc_resource(struct kunit *test,
> > +                                           kunit_resource_init_t init,
> > +                                           kunit_resource_free_t free,
> > +                                           void *context)
> > +{
> > +       struct kunit_resource *res;
> > +       int ret;
> > +
> > +       res = kzalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> This uses GFP_KERNEL.
>
> > +       if (!res)
> > +               return NULL;
> > +
> > +       ret = init(res, context);
> > +       if (ret)
> > +               return NULL;
> > +
> > +       res->free = free;
> > +       mutex_lock(&test->lock);
>
> And this can sleep.
>
> > +       list_add_tail(&res->node, &test->resources);
> > +       mutex_unlock(&test->lock);
> > +
> > +       return res;
> > +}
> > +
> > +void kunit_free_resource(struct kunit *test, struct kunit_resource *res)
>
> Should probably add a note that we assume the test lock is held here, or
> even add a lockdep_assert_held(&test->lock) into the function to
> document that and assert it at the same time.

Seems reasonable.

> > +{
> > +       res->free(res);
> > +       list_del(&res->node);
> > +       kfree(res);
> > +}
> > +
> > +struct kunit_kmalloc_params {
> > +       size_t size;
> > +       gfp_t gfp;
> > +};
> > +
> > +static int kunit_kmalloc_init(struct kunit_resource *res, void *context)
> > +{
> > +       struct kunit_kmalloc_params *params = context;
> > +
> > +       res->allocation = kmalloc(params->size, params->gfp);
> > +       if (!res->allocation)
> > +               return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +       return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void kunit_kmalloc_free(struct kunit_resource *res)
> > +{
> > +       kfree(res->allocation);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void *kunit_kmalloc(struct kunit *test, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > +       struct kunit_kmalloc_params params;
> > +       struct kunit_resource *res;
> > +
> > +       params.size = size;
> > +       params.gfp = gfp;
> > +
> > +       res = kunit_alloc_resource(test,
>
> This calls that sleeping function above...
>
> > +                                  kunit_kmalloc_init,
> > +                                  kunit_kmalloc_free,
> > +                                  &params);
>
> but this passes a GFP flags parameter through to the
> kunit_kmalloc_init() function. How is this going to work if some code
> uses GFP_ATOMIC, but then we try to allocate and sleep in
> kunit_alloc_resource() with GFP_KERNEL?

Yeah, that's an inconsistency. I need to fix that.

> One solution would be to piggyback on all the existing devres allocation
> logic we already have and make each struct kunit a device that we pass
> into the devres functions. A far simpler solution would be to just
> copy/paste what devres does and use a spinlock and an allocation
> function that takes GFP flags.

Yeah, that's what I did originally, but I thought from the discussion
on patch 01 that you thought a spinlock was overkill for struct kunit.
I take it you only meant in that initial patch?

> > +
> > +       if (res)
> > +               return res->allocation;
> > +
> > +       return NULL;
> > +}

Cheers

Powered by blists - more mailing lists