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uprobes: Kill uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id
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Kill the no longer needed uprobes_srcu/uprobe_srcu_id code.

It doesn't really work anyway. synchronize_srcu() can only
synchronize with the code "inside" the
srcu_read_lock/srcu_read_unlock section, while
uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier() does srcu_read_lock() _after_ we
already hit the breakpoint.

I guess this probably works "in practice". synchronize_srcu() is
slow and it implies synchronize_sched(), and the probed task
enters the non- preemptible section at the start of exception
handler. Still this is not right at least in theory, and
task->uprobe_srcu_id blows task_struct.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Arapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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oleg-nesterov authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jun 6, 2012
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/sched.h
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Expand Up @@ -1569,7 +1569,6 @@ struct task_struct {
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_UPROBES
struct uprobe_task *utask;
int uprobe_srcu_id;
#endif
};

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22 changes: 3 additions & 19 deletions kernel/events/uprobes.c
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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
#define UINSNS_PER_PAGE (PAGE_SIZE/UPROBE_XOL_SLOT_BYTES)
#define MAX_UPROBE_XOL_SLOTS UINSNS_PER_PAGE

static struct srcu_struct uprobes_srcu;
static struct rb_root uprobes_tree = RB_ROOT;

static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(uprobes_treelock); /* serialize rbtree access */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -738,20 +737,14 @@ remove_breakpoint(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct mm_struct *mm, loff_t vaddr)
}

/*
* There could be threads that have hit the breakpoint and are entering the
* notifier code and trying to acquire the uprobes_treelock. The thread
* calling delete_uprobe() that is removing the uprobe from the rb_tree can
* race with these threads and might acquire the uprobes_treelock compared
* to some of the breakpoint hit threads. In such a case, the breakpoint
* hit threads will not find the uprobe. The current unregistering thread
* waits till all other threads have hit a breakpoint, to acquire the
* uprobes_treelock before the uprobe is removed from the rbtree.
* There could be threads that have already hit the breakpoint. They
* will recheck the current insn and restart if find_uprobe() fails.
* See find_active_uprobe().
*/
static void delete_uprobe(struct uprobe *uprobe)
{
unsigned long flags;

synchronize_srcu(&uprobes_srcu);
spin_lock_irqsave(&uprobes_treelock, flags);
rb_erase(&uprobe->rb_node, &uprobes_tree);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uprobes_treelock, flags);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1388,9 +1381,6 @@ void uprobe_free_utask(struct task_struct *t)
{
struct uprobe_task *utask = t->utask;

if (t->uprobe_srcu_id != -1)
srcu_read_unlock_raw(&uprobes_srcu, t->uprobe_srcu_id);

if (!utask)
return;

Expand All @@ -1408,7 +1398,6 @@ void uprobe_free_utask(struct task_struct *t)
void uprobe_copy_process(struct task_struct *t)
{
t->utask = NULL;
t->uprobe_srcu_id = -1;
}

/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1513,9 +1502,6 @@ static struct uprobe *find_active_uprobe(unsigned long bp_vaddr, int *is_swbp)
} else {
*is_swbp = -EFAULT;
}

srcu_read_unlock_raw(&uprobes_srcu, current->uprobe_srcu_id);
current->uprobe_srcu_id = -1;
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);

return uprobe;
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utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT;

set_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE);
current->uprobe_srcu_id = srcu_read_lock_raw(&uprobes_srcu);

return 1;
}
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mutex_init(&uprobes_mutex[i]);
mutex_init(&uprobes_mmap_mutex[i]);
}
init_srcu_struct(&uprobes_srcu);

return register_die_notifier(&uprobe_exception_nb);
}
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