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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:56:51 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [POC 0/6] Allow SpinLockIrq to use a normal Guard interface
So besides the Co-developed-by corrections and the few issues I pointed out, I
definitely like the design that we have here - and it's nice to see that we
can reasonably reuse SpinLockBackend with SpinLockIrqBackend now!
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
On Thu, 2024-10-17 at 22:51 -0700, Boqun Feng wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> So this series is what I proposed, previously, because the nested
> interrupt API in C is local_irq_save() and local_irq_restore(), the
> following Rust code has the problem of enabling interrupt earlier:
>
> // l1 and l2 are interrupt disabling locks, their guards (i.e.
> // return of lock()) can be used to track interrupt state.
>
> // interrupts are enabled in the beginning.
>
> let g1 = l1.lock(); // previous interrupt state is enabled.
> let g2 = l2.lock(); // previous interrupt state is disabled.
>
> drop(g1); // release l1, if we use g1's state, interrupt will be
> // enabled. But this is obviously wrong. Because g2
> // can only exist with interrupt disabled.
>
> With the new interrupt disable and enable API, instead of a "unsigned
> long", a percpu variable is used to track the outermost interrupt state
> and the nested level, so that "drop(g1);" above won't enable interrupts.
>
> Although this requires extra cost, but I think it might be worth paying,
> because this could make Rust's SpinLockIrq simply use a guard interface
> as SpinLock.
>
> Of course, looking for any comments and suggestions.
>
> Boqun Feng (3):
> irq & spin_lock: Add counted interrupt disabling/enabling
> rust: helper: Add spin_{un,}lock_irq_{enable,disable}() helpers
> rust: sync: lock: Add `Backend::BackendInContext`
>
> Lyude Paul (3):
> rust: Introduce interrupt module
> rust: sync: Add SpinLockIrq
> rust: sync: Introduce lock::Backend::Context
>
> include/linux/irqflags.h | 32 +++++++++-
> include/linux/irqflags_types.h | 6 ++
> include/linux/spinlock.h | 13 ++++
> include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h | 29 +++++++++
> include/linux/spinlock_rt.h | 10 +++
> kernel/locking/spinlock.c | 16 +++++
> kernel/softirq.c | 3 +
> rust/helpers/helpers.c | 1 +
> rust/helpers/interrupt.c | 18 ++++++
> rust/helpers/spinlock.c | 10 +++
> rust/kernel/interrupt.rs | 64 +++++++++++++++++++
> rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +
> rust/kernel/sync.rs | 2 +-
> rust/kernel/sync/lock.rs | 33 +++++++++-
> rust/kernel/sync/lock/mutex.rs | 2 +
> rust/kernel/sync/lock/spinlock.rs | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 16 files changed, 340 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 rust/helpers/interrupt.c
> create mode 100644 rust/kernel/interrupt.rs
>
--
Cheers,
Lyude Paul (she/her)
Software Engineer at Red Hat
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