[PATCH] pstore: fix warning about conditional locking

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Nov 16 2016 - 10:17:00 EST


gcc cannot prove that "prz->flags" remains constant over the
function, so it warns that we might restore flags that have
never been saved:

fs/pstore/ram_core.c: In function âbuffer_size_addâ:
include/linux/spinlock.h:246:3: error: âflagsâ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

This reworks the code to avoid the spinlock entirely, by actually
using the atomic_t for atomic updates. The resulting code is
more efficient and easier to understand, and it avoids the
local variable that the compiler did not track correctly.

Fixes: 95937ddce59a ("pstore: Allow prz to control need for locking")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/ram.c | 4 +---
fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 8 --------
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 380222432eff..cb66ba710349 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -787,9 +787,7 @@ static int ramoops_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
: 1;
err = ramoops_init_przs("ftrace", dev, cxt, &cxt->fprzs, &paddr,
cxt->ftrace_size, -1,
- &cxt->max_ftrace_cnt, LINUX_VERSION_CODE,
- (cxt->flags & RAMOOPS_FLAG_FTRACE_PER_CPU)
- ? PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK : 0);
+ &cxt->max_ftrace_cnt, LINUX_VERSION_CODE, 0);
if (err)
goto fail_init_fprz;

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index 0cc23cb18719..87be7bdfaf48 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -51,21 +51,17 @@ static inline size_t buffer_start(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz)
/* increase and wrap the start pointer, returning the old value */
static size_t buffer_start_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
{
- int old;
- int new;
- unsigned long flags;
-
- if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
- raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+ int old, new, before;

old = atomic_read(&prz->buffer->start);
- new = old + a;
- while (unlikely(new >= prz->buffer_size))
- new -= prz->buffer_size;
- atomic_set(&prz->buffer->start, new);
+ do {
+ new = old + a;
+ while (unlikely(new >= prz->buffer_size))
+ new -= prz->buffer_size;

- if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
- raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+ before = old;
+ old = atomic_cmpxchg(&prz->buffer->start, before, new);
+ } while (old != before);

return old;
}
@@ -73,25 +69,20 @@ static size_t buffer_start_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
/* increase the size counter until it hits the max size */
static void buffer_size_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
{
- size_t old;
- size_t new;
- unsigned long flags;
-
- if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
- raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+ size_t old, new, before;

old = atomic_read(&prz->buffer->size);
- if (old == prz->buffer_size)
- goto exit;
+ do {
+ if (old == prz->buffer_size)
+ break;

- new = old + a;
- if (new > prz->buffer_size)
- new = prz->buffer_size;
- atomic_set(&prz->buffer->size, new);
+ new = old + a;
+ if (new > prz->buffer_size)
+ new = prz->buffer_size;

-exit:
- if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
- raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+ before = old;
+ old = atomic_cmpxchg(&prz->buffer->size, before, new);
+ } while (old != before);
}

static void notrace persistent_ram_encode_rs8(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz,
@@ -496,7 +487,6 @@ static int persistent_ram_post_init(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, u32 sig,

prz->buffer->sig = sig;
persistent_ram_zap(prz);
- prz->buffer_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(buffer_lock);
prz->flags = flags;

return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/pstore_ram.h b/include/linux/pstore_ram.h
index 9395f06e8372..e755803ba58a 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore_ram.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore_ram.h
@@ -24,13 +24,6 @@
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

-/*
- * Choose whether access to the RAM zone requires locking or not. If a zone
- * can be written to from different CPUs like with ftrace for example, then
- * PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK is used. For all other cases, locking is required.
- */
-#define PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK BIT(0)
-
struct persistent_ram_buffer;
struct rs_control;

@@ -48,7 +41,6 @@ struct persistent_ram_zone {
struct persistent_ram_buffer *buffer;
size_t buffer_size;
u32 flags;
- raw_spinlock_t buffer_lock;

/* ECC correction */
char *par_buffer;
--
2.9.0