Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:43:50 -0400 | From | Jason Baron <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] static keys: fix test/set races |
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Hi Steve,
I took a closer look at this, and I'm thinking now that its simpler to just take the &inode->i_mutex in sched_feat_write(), surrounding the test/set jump_label call. It should be about 3 lines :)
I started re-working this with the patches in this series and it just seemed like a lot of code for only 1 current use-case. (The udp case doesn't appear to disable the branch and thus is not racy.)
So I've swung back to what Ingo originally said - I can test/post the suggested 3-line patch, unless there are other thoughts...
Thanks,
-Jason
On 06/23/2014 10:28 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Cleaning out my INBOX I found this patch series. It seems to have been > forgotten about. It ended up with Ingo and Peter agreeing with the way > things should be done and I thought Jason was going to send an update. > But that seems to never have happened. > > Does this patch series still look legit? Should we pursue it? > > -- Steve > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:30:28 +0000 (GMT) > jbaron@akamai.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As pointed out by Andi Kleen, some static key users can be racy because they >> check the value of the key->enabled, and then subsequently update the branch >> direction. A number of call sites have 'higher' level locking that avoids this >> race, but the usage in the scheduler features does not. See: >> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1304.2/01655.html >> >> Thus, introduce a new API that does the check and set under the >> 'jump_label_mutex'. This should also allow to simplify call sites a bit. >> >> Users of static keys should use either the inc/dec or the set_true/set_false >> API. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Jason >> >> >> Jason Baron (3): >> static_keys: Add a static_key_slow_set_true()/false() interface >> sched: fix static keys race in sched_feat >> udp: make use of static_key_slow_set_true() interface >> >> Documentation/static-keys.txt | 8 ++++++++ >> include/linux/jump_label.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> kernel/jump_label.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> kernel/sched/core.c | 12 +++++------- >> kernel/sched/sched.h | 10 +++++----- >> net/ipv4/udp.c | 9 ++++----- >> net/ipv6/udp.c | 9 ++++----- >> 7 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) >> >
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