Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_break_hook

From: Shi, Yang
Date: Thu Oct 01 2015 - 12:03:14 EST


On 10/1/2015 8:07 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:59:04PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
index cebf786..eb520d0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c
@@ -292,11 +292,11 @@ static int call_break_hook(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr)
struct break_hook *hook;
int (*fn)(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned int esr) = NULL;

- read_lock(&break_hook_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry(hook, &break_hook, node)
if ((esr & hook->esr_mask) == hook->esr_val)
fn = hook->fn;
- read_unlock(&break_hook_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();

return fn ? fn(regs, esr) : DBG_HOOK_ERROR;
}

That's not enough, you also need list_(add|del)_rcu where the list is
modified, together with list_for_each_entry_rcu() here.

Thanks for pointing it out. I'm going to prepare v2 with list_(add|del)_rcu.

Yang



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