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Message-ID: <xhsmhczf773gg.mognet@vschneid.remote.csb>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:46:23 +0100
From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@...ux.dev>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Juri Lelli <jlelli@...hat.com>,
"Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] panic, kexec: Don't mutex_trylock() in __crash_kexec()
On 17/06/22 15:52, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Fri 2022-06-17 12:52:05, Valentin Schneider wrote:
>> If you look at __crash_kexec() in isolation yes, but if you look at panic()
>> and nmi_panic() only a single NMI can get in there. I think that is also
>> true for invocations via crash_kexec().
>
> It is true that panic() could be called only once, see this code
> in panic():
>
> * Only one CPU is allowed to execute the panic code from here. For
> this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu);
>
> if (old_cpu != PANIC_CPU_INVALID && old_cpu != this_cpu)
> panic_smp_self_stop();
>
>
> One the other hand, the aproach with two variables is strage
> and brings exactly these questions.
>
> If a trylock is enough that the mutex can be replaced by two
> simple atomic operations. The mutex would be needed only
> when a user really would need to wait for another one.
>
>
> atomic_t crash_kexec_lock;
>
> /* trylock part */
> if (atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&crash_kexec_lock, 0, 1) != 0)
> return -EBUSY;
>
> /* do anything guarded by crash_kexec_lock */
>
> /* release lock */
> atomic_set_release(&crash_kexec_lock, 0);
>
> The _acquire, _release variants will do the barriers correctly.
>
Looks saner! I can't think of anything wrong with it so I'll shove that in
v2. Thanks!
> Best Regards,
> Petr
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