From 555bb4ccd1dd78d0263eae31629fe1fdd65c1fb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:41:24 +0200 Subject: preempt: Provide preempt_[dis|en]able_nested() On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels, spinlocks and rwlocks are neither disabling preemption nor interrupts. Though there are a few places which depend on the implicit preemption/interrupt disable of those locks, e.g. seqcount write sections, per CPU statistics updates etc. To avoid sprinkling CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT conditionals all over the place, add preempt_disable_nested() and preempt_enable_nested() which should be descriptive enough. Add a lockdep assertion for the !PREEMPT_RT case to catch callers which do not have preemption disabled. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825164131.402717-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de --- include/linux/preempt.h | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/preempt.h b/include/linux/preempt.h index b4381f255a5c..0df425bf9bd7 100644 --- a/include/linux/preempt.h +++ b/include/linux/preempt.h @@ -421,4 +421,46 @@ static inline void migrate_enable(void) { } #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */ +/** + * preempt_disable_nested - Disable preemption inside a normally preempt disabled section + * + * Use for code which requires preemption protection inside a critical + * section which has preemption disabled implicitly on non-PREEMPT_RT + * enabled kernels, by e.g.: + * - holding a spinlock/rwlock + * - soft interrupt context + * - regular interrupt handlers + * + * On PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels spinlock/rwlock held sections, soft + * interrupt context and regular interrupt handlers are preemptible and + * only prevent migration. preempt_disable_nested() ensures that preemption + * is disabled for cases which require CPU local serialization even on + * PREEMPT_RT. For non-PREEMPT_RT kernels this is a NOP. + * + * The use cases are code sequences which are not serialized by a + * particular lock instance, e.g.: + * - seqcount write side critical sections where the seqcount is not + * associated to a particular lock and therefore the automatic + * protection mechanism does not work. This prevents a live lock + * against a preempting high priority reader. + * - RMW per CPU variable updates like vmstat. + */ +/* Macro to avoid header recursion hell vs. lockdep */ +#define preempt_disable_nested() \ +do { \ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) \ + preempt_disable(); \ + else \ + lockdep_assert_preemption_disabled(); \ +} while (0) + +/** + * preempt_enable_nested - Undo the effect of preempt_disable_nested() + */ +static __always_inline void preempt_enable_nested(void) +{ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) + preempt_enable(); +} + #endif /* __LINUX_PREEMPT_H */ -- cgit