Re: [PATCH] Fix Bug messages

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 10:02:37 EST


On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:49 +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxx>
> Index: linux-2.6.26-rt1/net/core/sock.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.26-rt1.orig/net/core/sock.c
> +++ linux-2.6.26-rt1/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -1986,11 +1986,12 @@ static __init int net_inuse_init(void)
>
> core_initcall(net_inuse_init);
> #else
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct prot_inuse, prot_inuse);
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU_LOCKED(struct prot_inuse, prot_inuse);
>
> void sock_prot_inuse_add(struct net *net, struct proto *prot, int val)
> {
> - __get_cpu_var(prot_inuse).val[prot->inuse_idx] += val;
> + int cpu = 0;
> + __get_cpu_var_locked(prot_inuse, cpu).val[prot->inuse_idx] += val;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sock_prot_inuse_add);
>
> @@ -2000,7 +2001,7 @@ int sock_prot_inuse_get(struct net *net,
> int res = 0;
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> - res += per_cpu(prot_inuse, cpu).val[idx];
> + res += per_cpu_var_locked(prot_inuse, cpu).val[idx];
>
> return res >= 0 ? res : 0;
> }

This doesn't look good. You declare it as a PER_CPU_LOCKED, but then
never use the extra lock to synchronize data.

Given that sock_proc_inuse_get() is a racy read anyway, the 'right' fix
would be to do something like:

diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 91f8bbc..5a8ace4 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1941,8 +1941,9 @@ static DECLARE_BITMAP(proto_inuse_idx, PROTO_INUSE_NR);
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
void sock_prot_inuse_add(struct net *net, struct proto *prot, int val)
{
- int cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ int cpu = get_cpu();
per_cpu_ptr(net->core.inuse, cpu)->val[prot->inuse_idx] += val;
+ put_cpu();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sock_prot_inuse_add);

@@ -1988,7 +1989,9 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct prot_inuse, prot_inuse);

void sock_prot_inuse_add(struct net *net, struct proto *prot, int val)
{
- __get_cpu_var(prot_inuse).val[prot->inuse_idx] += val;
+ int cpu = get_cpu();
+ per_cpu(prot_inuse, cpu).val[prot->inuse_idx] += val;
+ put_cpu();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sock_prot_inuse_add);

This disables preemption, but only for a very short time - so it doesn't
hurt the preempt-latency.

The alternative is to take a lock, do the inc, and drop the lock again,
which is much more expensive.

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