[PATCH] arm64/cpufeature: Convert hook_lock to raw_spin_lock_t in cpu_enable_ssbs()

From: Julien Grall
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 07:34:45 EST


cpu_enable_ssbs() is called via stop_machine() as part of the cpu_enable
callback. A spin lock is used to ensure the hook is registered before
the rest of the callback is executed.

On -RT spin_lock() may sleep. However, all the callees in stop_machine()
are expected to not sleep. Therefore a raw_spin_lock() is required here.

Given this is already done under stop_machine() and the work done under
the lock is quite small, the latency should not increase too much.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>

---

It was noticed when looking at the current use of spin_lock in
arch/arm64. I don't have a platform calling that callback, so I have
hacked the code to reproduce the error and check it is now fixed.
---
arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index ca27e08e3d8a..2a7159fda3ce 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1194,14 +1194,14 @@ static struct undef_hook ssbs_emulation_hook = {
static void cpu_enable_ssbs(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__unused)
{
static bool undef_hook_registered = false;
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(hook_lock);
+ static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(hook_lock);

- spin_lock(&hook_lock);
+ raw_spin_lock(&hook_lock);
if (!undef_hook_registered) {
register_undef_hook(&ssbs_emulation_hook);
undef_hook_registered = true;
}
- spin_unlock(&hook_lock);
+ raw_spin_unlock(&hook_lock);

if (arm64_get_ssbd_state() == ARM64_SSBD_FORCE_DISABLE) {
sysreg_clear_set(sctlr_el1, 0, SCTLR_ELx_DSSBS);
--
2.11.0