[PATCH v3 09/20] sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock

From: Ahmed S. Darwish
Date: Tue Jun 30 2020 - 01:45:49 EST


A sequence counter write side critical section must be protected by some
form of locking to serialize writers. A plain seqcount_t does not
contain the information of which lock must be held when entering a write
side critical section.

Use the new seqcount_spinlock_t data type, which allows to associate a
spinlock with the sequence counter. This enables lockdep to verify that
the spinlock used for writer serialization is held when the write side
critical section is entered.

If lockdep is disabled this lock association is compiled out and has
neither storage size nor runtime overhead.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
init/init_task.c | 3 ++-
kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 03403ca6e44e..1b4e6b8dc523 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ struct task_struct {
/* Protected by ->alloc_lock: */
nodemask_t mems_allowed;
/* Seqence number to catch updates: */
- seqcount_t mems_allowed_seq;
+ seqcount_spinlock_t mems_allowed_seq;
int cpuset_mem_spread_rotor;
int cpuset_slab_spread_rotor;
#endif
diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
index 15089d15010a..94fe3ba1bb60 100644
--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@ struct task_struct init_task
.trc_holdout_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_task.trc_holdout_list),
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
- .mems_allowed_seq = SEQCNT_ZERO(init_task.mems_allowed_seq),
+ .mems_allowed_seq = SEQCNT_SPINLOCK_ZERO(init_task.mems_allowed_seq,
+ &init_task.alloc_lock),
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES
.pi_waiters = RB_ROOT_CACHED,
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f44d70307210..eb260c6bdb8b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
p->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = NUMA_NO_NODE;
p->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor = NUMA_NO_NODE;
- seqcount_init(&p->mems_allowed_seq);
+ seqcount_spinlock_init(&p->mems_allowed_seq, &p->alloc_lock);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
p->irq_events = 0;
--
2.20.1