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2011-04-25add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpersChristoph Hellwig
Now that the whole dcache_hash_bucket crap is gone, go all the way and also remove the weird locking layering violations for locking the hash buckets. Add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers to move the locking into the list abstraction instead of requiring each caller to open code it. After all allowing for the bit locks is the whole point of these helpers over the plain hlist variant. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14kernel: fix hlist_bl againRussell King
__d_rehash is dereferencing an almost-NULL pointer on my ARM926. CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y. The faulting instruction is: strne r3, [r2, #4] and as can be seen from the register dump below, r2 is 0x00000001, hence the faulting 0x00000005 address. __d_rehash is essentially: spin_lock_bucket(b); entry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED; hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(&entry->d_hash, &b->head); spin_unlock_bucket(b); which is: bit_spin_lock(0, (unsigned long *)&b->head.first); entry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED; hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(&entry->d_hash, &b->head); __bit_spin_unlock(0, (unsigned long *)&b->head.first); bit_spin_lock(0, ptr) sets bit 0 of *ptr, in this case b->head.first if CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is set: #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) while (unlikely(test_and_set_bit_lock(bitnum, addr))) { while (test_bit(bitnum, addr)) { preempt_enable(); cpu_relax(); preempt_disable(); } } #endif So, b->head.first starts off NULL, and becomes a non-NULL (address 1). hlist_bl_add_head_rcu() does this: static inline void hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(struct hlist_bl_node *n, struct hlist_bl_head *h) { first = hlist_bl_first(h); n->next = first; if (first) first->pprev = &n->next; It is the store to first->pprev which is faulting. hlist_bl_first(): static inline struct hlist_bl_node *hlist_bl_first(struct hlist_bl_head *h) { return (struct hlist_bl_node *) ((unsigned long)h->first & ~LIST_BL_LOCKMASK); } but: #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) #define LIST_BL_LOCKMASK 1UL #else #define LIST_BL_LOCKMASK 0UL #endif So, we have one piece of code which sets bit 0 of addresses, and another bit of code which doesn't clear it before dereferencing the pointer if !CONFIG_SMP && CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK. With the patch below, I can again sucessfully boot the kernel on my Versatile PB/926 platform. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-14fs: hlist UP debug fixupNick Piggin
Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert.chuang@gmail.com> noticed that hlist_bl_set_first could crash on a UP system when LIST_BL_LOCKMASK is 0, because LIST_BL_BUG_ON(!((unsigned long)h->first & LIST_BL_LOCKMASK)); always evaulates to true. Fix the expression, and also avoid a dependency between bit spinlock implementation and list bl code (list code shouldn't know anything except that bit 0 is set when adding and removing elements). Eventually if a good use case comes up, we might use this list to store 1 or more arbitrary bits of data, so it really shouldn't be tied to locking either, but for now they are helpful for debugging. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07kernel: add bl_listNick Piggin
Introduce a type of hlist that can support the use of the lowest bit in the hlist_head. This will be subsequently used to implement per-bucket bit spinlock for inode and dentry hashes, and may be useful in other cases such as network hashes. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>