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Auditing tcs_invalidate() made me worried. Specifically I saw that it used spin_lock(), not spin_lock_irqsave(). That always worries me unless I can trace for sure that I'm in the interrupt handler or that someone else already disabled interrupts. Looking more at it, there is actually no reason for these locks anyway. Specifically the only reason you'd ever call rpmh_rsc_invalidate() is if you cared that the sleep/wake TCSes were empty. That means that they need to continue to be empty even after rpmh_rsc_invalidate() returns. The only way that can happen is if the caller already has done something to keep all other RPMH users out. It should be noted that even though the caller is only worried about making sleep/wake TCSes empty, they also need to worry about stopping active-only transfers if they need to handle the case where active-only transfers might borrow the wake TCS. At the moment rpmh_rsc_invalidate() is only called in PM code from the last CPU. If that later changes the caller will still need to solve the above problems themselves, so these locks will never be useful. Continuing to audit tcs_invalidate(), I found a bug. The function didn't properly check for a borrowed TCS if we hadn't recently written anything into the TCS. Specifically, if we've never written to the WAKE_TCS (or we've flushed it recently) then tcs->slots is empty. We'll early-out and we'll never call tcs_is_free(). I thought about fixing this bug by either deleting the early check for bitmap_empty() or possibly only doing it if we knew we weren't on a TCS that could be borrowed. However, I think it's better to just delete the checks. As argued above it's up to the caller to make sure that all other users of RPMH are quiet before tcs_invalidate() is called. Since callers need to handle the zero-active-TCS case anyway that means they need to make sure that the active-only transfers are quiet before calling too. The one way tcs_invalidate() gets called today is through rpmh_rsc_cpu_pm_callback() which calls rpmh_rsc_ctrlr_is_busy() to handle this. When we have another path to get to tcs_invalidate() it will also need to come up with something similar and it won't need this extra check either. If we later find some code path that actually needs this check back in (and somehow manages to be race free) we can always add it back in. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Tested-by: Maulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200413100321.v4.9.I07c1f70e0e8f2dc0004bd38970b4e258acdc773e@changeid Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.