[tip:perf/core] uprobes: Kill uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id

From: tip-bot for Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Jun 06 2012 - 11:13:54 EST


Commit-ID: 71adc7a026a8c18db0f85d50d28c5f61a0b8d489
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/71adc7a026a8c18db0f85d50d28c5f61a0b8d489
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 29 May 2012 21:30:08 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:30:57 +0200

uprobes: Kill uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id

Kill the no longer needed uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id code.

It doesn't really work anyway. synchronize_srcu() can only
synchronize with the code "inside" the
srcu_read_lock/srcu_read_unlock section, while
uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier() does srcu_read_lock() _after_ we
already hit the breakpoint.

I guess this probably works "in practice". synchronize_srcu() is
slow and it implies synchronize_sched(), and the probed task
enters the non- preemptible section at the start of exception
handler. Still this is not right at least in theory, and
task->uprobe_srcu_id blows task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120529193008.GG8057@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 -
kernel/events/uprobes.c | 22 +++-------------------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 6029d8c..6bd1965 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1569,7 +1569,6 @@ struct task_struct {
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_UPROBES
struct uprobe_task *utask;
- int uprobe_srcu_id;
#endif
};

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 1f02e3b..8c5e043 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
#define UINSNS_PER_PAGE (PAGE_SIZE/UPROBE_XOL_SLOT_BYTES)
#define MAX_UPROBE_XOL_SLOTS UINSNS_PER_PAGE

-static struct srcu_struct uprobes_srcu;
static struct rb_root uprobes_tree = RB_ROOT;

static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(uprobes_treelock); /* serialize rbtree access */
@@ -738,20 +737,14 @@ remove_breakpoint(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct mm_struct *mm, loff_t vaddr)
}

/*
- * There could be threads that have hit the breakpoint and are entering the
- * notifier code and trying to acquire the uprobes_treelock. The thread
- * calling delete_uprobe() that is removing the uprobe from the rb_tree can
- * race with these threads and might acquire the uprobes_treelock compared
- * to some of the breakpoint hit threads. In such a case, the breakpoint
- * hit threads will not find the uprobe. The current unregistering thread
- * waits till all other threads have hit a breakpoint, to acquire the
- * uprobes_treelock before the uprobe is removed from the rbtree.
+ * There could be threads that have already hit the breakpoint. They
+ * will recheck the current insn and restart if find_uprobe() fails.
+ * See find_active_uprobe().
*/
static void delete_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe)
{
unsigned long flags;

- synchronize_srcu(&uprobes_srcu);
spin_lock_irqsave(&uprobes_treelock, flags);
rb_erase(&uprobe->rb_node, &uprobes_tree);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uprobes_treelock, flags);
@@ -1388,9 +1381,6 @@ void uprobe_free_utask(struct task_struct *t)
{
struct uprobe_task *utask = t->utask;

- if (t->uprobe_srcu_id != -1)
- srcu_read_unlock_raw(&uprobes_srcu, t->uprobe_srcu_id);
-
if (!utask)
return;

@@ -1408,7 +1398,6 @@ void uprobe_free_utask(struct task_struct *t)
void uprobe_copy_process(struct task_struct *t)
{
t->utask = NULL;
- t->uprobe_srcu_id = -1;
}

/*
@@ -1513,9 +1502,6 @@ static struct uprobe *find_active_uprobe(unsigned long bp_vaddr, int *is_swbp)
} else {
*is_swbp = -EFAULT;
}
-
- srcu_read_unlock_raw(&uprobes_srcu, current->uprobe_srcu_id);
- current->uprobe_srcu_id = -1;
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

return uprobe;
@@ -1656,7 +1642,6 @@ int uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier(struct pt_regs *regs)
utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT;

set_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE);
- current->uprobe_srcu_id = srcu_read_lock_raw(&uprobes_srcu);

return 1;
}
@@ -1691,7 +1676,6 @@ static int __init init_uprobes(void)
mutex_init(&uprobes_mutex[i]);
mutex_init(&uprobes_mmap_mutex[i]);
}
- init_srcu_struct(&uprobes_srcu);

return register_die_notifier(&uprobe_exception_nb);
}
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