Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: preempt: Provide our own implementation of asm/preempt.h

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Nov 28 2018 - 10:35:58 EST


On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 20:44, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The asm-generic/preempt.h implementation doesn't make use of the
> PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED flag, since this can interact badly with load/store
> architectures which rely on the preempt_count word being unchanged across
> an interrupt.
>
> However, since we're a 64-bit architecture and the preempt count is
> only 32 bits wide, we can simply pack it next to the resched flag and
> load the whole thing in one go, so that a dec-and-test operation doesn't
> need to load twice.
>

Since the actual preempt count is a lot narrower than 32 bits, x86
just uses bit 31.

So what is the reason for using two different words?


> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 -
> arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h | 13 +++++-
> 3 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild b/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild
> index 6cd5d77b6b44..33498f900390 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/Kbuild
> @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ generic-y += local64.h
> generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
> generic-y += mm-arch-hooks.h
> generic-y += msi.h
> -generic-y += preempt.h
> generic-y += qrwlock.h
> generic-y += qspinlock.h
> generic-y += rwsem.h
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..832227d5ebc0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#ifndef __ASM_PREEMPT_H
> +#define __ASM_PREEMPT_H
> +
> +#include <linux/thread_info.h>
> +
> +#define PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED BIT(32)
> +#define PREEMPT_ENABLED (PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED)
> +
> +static inline int preempt_count(void)
> +{
> + return READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void preempt_count_set(u64 pc)
> +{
> + /* Preserve existing value of PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED */
> + WRITE_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count, pc);
> +}
> +
> +#define init_task_preempt_count(p) do { \
> + task_thread_info(p)->preempt_count = FORK_PREEMPT_COUNT; \
> +} while (0)
> +
> +#define init_idle_preempt_count(p, cpu) do { \
> + task_thread_info(p)->preempt_count = PREEMPT_ENABLED; \
> +} while (0)
> +
> +static inline void set_preempt_need_resched(void)
> +{
> + current_thread_info()->preempt.need_resched = 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void clear_preempt_need_resched(void)
> +{
> + current_thread_info()->preempt.need_resched = 1;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool test_preempt_need_resched(void)
> +{
> + return !current_thread_info()->preempt.need_resched;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void __preempt_count_add(int val)
> +{
> + u32 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
> + pc += val;
> + WRITE_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count, pc);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void __preempt_count_sub(int val)
> +{
> + u32 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count);
> + pc -= val;
> + WRITE_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count, pc);
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool __preempt_count_dec_and_test(void)
> +{
> + u64 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt_count);
> + WRITE_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt.count, --pc);
> + return !pc;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool should_resched(int preempt_offset)
> +{
> + u64 pc = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt_count);
> + return pc == preempt_offset;
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +void preempt_schedule(void);
> +#define __preempt_schedule() preempt_schedule()
> +void preempt_schedule_notrace(void);
> +#define __preempt_schedule_notrace() preempt_schedule_notrace()
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT */
> +
> +#endif /* __ASM_PREEMPT_H */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index cb2c10a8f0a8..bbca68b54732 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,18 @@ struct thread_info {
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SW_TTBR0_PAN
> u64 ttbr0; /* saved TTBR0_EL1 */
> #endif
> - int preempt_count; /* 0 => preemptable, <0 => bug */
> + union {
> + u64 preempt_count; /* 0 => preemptible, <0 => bug */
> + struct {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> + u32 need_resched;
> + u32 count;
> +#else
> + u32 count;
> + u32 need_resched;
> +#endif
> + } preempt;
> + };
> };
>
> #define thread_saved_pc(tsk) \
> --
> 2.1.4
>