Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-04-16 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 09:21 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 04/05/2013 12:38 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 16:00 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >> The ipc semaphore code has a nasty RCU locking tangle, with both > >> find_alloc_undo and semtimedop taking the rcu_read_lock().

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-04-05 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 09:21 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 04/05/2013 12:38 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 16:00 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > >> The ipc semaphore code has a nasty RCU locking tangle, with both > >> find_alloc_undo and semtimedop taking the rcu_read_lock().

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-04-05 Thread Rik van Riel
On 04/05/2013 12:38 AM, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 16:00 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: The ipc semaphore code has a nasty RCU locking tangle, with both find_alloc_undo and semtimedop taking the rcu_read_lock(). The code can be cleaned up somewhat by only taking the rcu_read_lock

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-04-04 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 16:00 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:07:14 -0400 > Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > Not necessarily, we do release everything at the end of the function: > > > out_unlock_free: > > > sem_unlock(sma, locknum); > > > > Ow, there's a rcu_read_unlock() in

[PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-04-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:07:14 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote: > > Not necessarily, we do release everything at the end of the function: > > out_unlock_free: > > sem_unlock(sma, locknum); > > Ow, there's a rcu_read_unlock() in sem_unlock()? This complicates things even > more I suspect. If un is

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-30 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 21:30 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 03/30/2013 09:35 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > I'm thinking that the solution is as simple as: > > Your patch is absolutely correct. All it needs now is your > signed-off-by, so Andrew can merge it into -mm :) > > Reviewed-by: Rik van R

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-30 Thread Rik van Riel
On 03/30/2013 09:35 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: I'm thinking that the solution is as simple as: Your patch is absolutely correct. All it needs now is your signed-off-by, so Andrew can merge it into -mm :) Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c index 6e109ef..ac36671 10064

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-30 Thread Sasha Levin
On 03/28/2013 11:32 AM, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400 > Sasha Levin wrote: > >> > [ 96.347341] >> > [ 96.348085] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] >> > [ 96.348834] 3.9.0-rc4-next-20130326-sasha-00011

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-28 Thread Sasha Levin
On 03/28/2013 09:00 PM, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Rik van Riel wrote: >> The ipc semaphore code has a nasty RCU locking tangle, with both >> find_alloc_undo and semtimedop taking the rcu_read_lock(). The >> code can be cleaned up somewhat by only taking the rcu_re

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-28 Thread Michel Lespinasse
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Rik van Riel wrote: > The ipc semaphore code has a nasty RCU locking tangle, with both > find_alloc_undo and semtimedop taking the rcu_read_lock(). The > code can be cleaned up somewhat by only taking the rcu_read_lock > once. > > The only caller of find_alloc_undo

Re: [PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-28 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 11:32 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400 > Sasha Levin wrote: > > > [ 96.347341] > > [ 96.348085] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] > > [ 96.348834] 3.9.0-rc4-next-20130326-sas

[PATCH -mm -next] ipc,sem: untangle RCU locking with find_alloc_undo

2013-03-28 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:33:07 -0400 Sasha Levin wrote: > [ 96.347341] > [ 96.348085] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] > [ 96.348834] 3.9.0-rc4-next-20130326-sasha-00011-gbcb2313 #318 Tainted: G > W > [ 96.360300]