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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>2019-07-25 17:16:25 +0900
committerWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2019-08-01 15:00:27 +0100
commit760d8ed069c4e32a92e2ba251a3b0d9a87a3e771 (patch)
tree58ee75b783ea40be64b1d504cc70c5327eb5dfd7 /arch/arm64/kernel
parentee07b93e7721ccd5d5b9fa6f0c10cb3fe2f1f4f9 (diff)
arm64: Remove unneeded rcu_read_lock from debug handlers
Remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() from debug exception handlers since we are sure those are not preemptible and interrupts are off. Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index f8719bd30850..48222a4760c2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -207,16 +207,16 @@ static int call_step_hook(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr)
list = user_mode(regs) ? &user_step_hook : &kernel_step_hook;
- rcu_read_lock();
-
+ /*
+ * Since single-step exception disables interrupt, this function is
+ * entirely not preemptible, and we can use rcu list safely here.
+ */
list_for_each_entry_rcu(hook, list, node) {
retval = hook->fn(regs, esr);
if (retval == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED)
break;
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
-
return retval;
}
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(call_step_hook);
@@ -305,14 +305,16 @@ static int call_break_hook(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr)
list = user_mode(regs) ? &user_break_hook : &kernel_break_hook;
- rcu_read_lock();
+ /*
+ * Since brk exception disables interrupt, this function is
+ * entirely not preemptible, and we can use rcu list safely here.
+ */
list_for_each_entry_rcu(hook, list, node) {
unsigned int comment = esr & ESR_ELx_BRK64_ISS_COMMENT_MASK;
if ((comment & ~hook->mask) == hook->imm)
fn = hook->fn;
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
return fn ? fn(regs, esr) : DBG_HOOK_ERROR;
}