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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v11 2/6] xenbus/backend: Protect xenbus callback with lock
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On 17.12.19 17:24, SeongJae Park wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:13:42 +0100 "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17.12.19 17:07, SeongJae Park wrote:
>>> From: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
>>>
>>> 'reclaim_memory' callback can race with a driver code as this callback
>>> will be called from any memory pressure detected context. To deal with
>>> the case, this commit adds a spinlock in the 'xenbus_device'. Whenever
>>> 'reclaim_memory' callback is called, the lock of the device which passed
>>> to the callback as its argument is locked. Thus, drivers registering
>>> their 'reclaim_memory' callback should protect the data that might race
>>> with the callback with the lock by themselves.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c | 1 +
>>> drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c | 10 ++++++++--
>>> include/xen/xenbus.h | 2 ++
>>> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
>>> index 5b471889d723..b86393f172e6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c
>>> @@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ int xenbus_probe_node(struct xen_bus_type *bus,
>>> goto fail;
>>>
>>> dev_set_name(&xendev->dev, "%s", devname);
>>> + spin_lock_init(&xendev->reclaim_lock);
>>>
>>> /* Register with generic device framework. */
>>> err = device_register(&xendev->dev);
>>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
>>> index 7e78ebef7c54..516aa64b9967 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe_backend.c
>>> @@ -251,12 +251,18 @@ static int backend_probe_and_watch(struct notifier_block *notifier,
>>> static int backend_reclaim_memory(struct device *dev, void *data)
>>> {
>>> const struct xenbus_driver *drv;
>>> + struct xenbus_device *xdev;
>>> + unsigned long flags;
>>>
>>> if (!dev->driver)
>>> return 0;
>>> drv = to_xenbus_driver(dev->driver);
>>> - if (drv && drv->reclaim_memory)
>>> - drv->reclaim_memory(to_xenbus_device(dev));
>>> + if (drv && drv->reclaim_memory) {
>>> + xdev = to_xenbus_device(dev);
>>> + spin_trylock_irqsave(&xdev->reclaim_lock, flags);
>>
>> You need spin_lock_irqsave() here. Or maybe spin_lock() would be fine,
>> too? I can't see a reason why you'd want to disable irqs here.
>
> I needed to diable irq here as this is called from the memory shrinker context.

Okay.

>
> Also, used 'trylock' because the 'probe()' and 'remove()' code of the driver
> might include memory allocation. And the xen-blkback actually does. If the
> allocation shows a memory pressure during the allocation, it will trigger this
> shrinker callback again and then deadlock.

In that case you need to either return when you didn't get the lock or

- when obtaining the lock during probe() and remove() set a variable
containing the current cpu number
- and reset that to e.g NR_CPUS before releasing the lock again
- in the shrinker callback do trylock, and if you didn't get the lock
test whether the cpu-variable above is set to your current cpu and
continue only if yes; if not, redo the the trylock


Juergen

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