change names:
irq_desc() ==> irq_desc_alloc
__irq_desc() ==> irq_desc
Also split a few of the uses in lowlevel x86 code.
v2: need to check if desc is null in smp_irq_move_cleanup
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
remove irq limit checks - nr_irqs is dynamic and we expand anytime.
v2: fix checking about result irq_cfg_without_new, so could use msi again
v3: use irq_desc_without_new to check irq is valid
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are a handful of loops that go from 0 to nr_irqs and use
get_irq_desc() on them. These would allocate all the irq_desc
entries, regardless of the need for them.
Use the smarter for_each_irq_desc() iterator that will only iterate
over the present ones.
v2: make sure arch without GENERIC_HARDIRQS work too
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array.
Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions.
Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more.
( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build
failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces
new irq_desc[] usage. )
v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc()
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
at this point nr_irqs is equal NR_IRQS
convert a few easy users from NR_IRQS to dynamic nr_irqs.
v2: according to Eric, we need to take care of arch without generic_hardirqs
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Genirq hasn't previously recorded the trigger type used by any given IRQ,
although some irq_chip support has done so. That data can be useful when
troubleshooting. This patch records it in the relevant irq_desc.status
bits, and improves consistency between the two driver-visible calls
affected:
- Make set_irq_type() usage match request_irq() usage:
* IRQ_TYPE_NONE should be a NOP; succeed, so irq_chip methods
won't have to handle that case any more (many do it wrong).
* IRQ_TYPE_PROBE is ignored; any buggy out-of-tree callers
might need to switch over to the real IRQ probing code.
* emit the same diagnostics (from shared utility code)
- Their kerneldoc now reflects usage:
* request_irq() flags include IRQF_TRIGGER_* to specify
active edge(s)/level ... docs previously omitted that
* set_irq_type() is declared in <linux/irq.h> so callers
should use the (bit-equivalent) IRQ_TYPE_* symbols there
Also: adds a warning about shared IRQs that don't end up using the
requested trigger mode; and fix an unrelated "sparse" warning.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch clarifies usage of irq_chip->startup() callback:
1. The "if (startup) startup(); else enabled();" code in setup_irq()
is unnecessary, as startup() falls back to enabled() via
default callbacks, set by irq_chip_set_defaults().
2. When using set_irq_chained_handler() the startup() was never called,
which is not good at all... Fixed. And again - when startup() is not
defined the call will fall back to enable() than to unmask() via
default callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@st.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When DEBUG_SHIRQ is selected, a spurious IRQ is issued before
the setup_irq() initializes the desc->depth. An IRQ handler may
call disable_irq_nosync(), but then setup_irq() will overwrite
desc->depth, and upon enable_irq() we'll catch this WARN:
------------[ cut here ]------------
Badness at kernel/irq/manage.c:180
NIP: c0061ab8 LR: c0061f10 CTR: 00000000
REGS: cf83be50 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.27-rc3-23450-g74919b0)
MSR: 00021032 <ME,IR,DR> CR: 22042022 XER: 20000000
TASK = cf829100[5] 'events/0' THREAD: cf83a000
GPR00: c0061f10 cf83bf00 cf829100 c038e674 00000016 00000000 cf83bef8 00000038
GPR08: c0298910 00000000 c0310d28 cf83a000 00000c9c 1001a1a8 0fffe000 00800000
GPR16: ffffffff 00000000 007fff00 00000000 007ffeb0 c03320a0 c031095c c0310924
GPR24: cf8292ec cf807190 cf83a000 00009032 c038e6a4 c038e674 cf99b1cc c038e674
NIP [c0061ab8] __enable_irq+0x20/0x80
LR [c0061f10] enable_irq+0x50/0x70
Call Trace:
[cf83bf00] [c038e674] irq_desc+0x630/0x9000 (unreliable)
[cf83bf10] [c0061f10] enable_irq+0x50/0x70
[cf83bf30] [c01abe94] phy_change+0x68/0x108
[cf83bf50] [c0046394] run_workqueue+0xc4/0x16c
[cf83bf90] [c0046834] worker_thread+0x74/0xd4
[cf83bfd0] [c004ab7c] kthread+0x48/0x84
[cf83bff0] [c00135e0] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60
Instruction dump:
4e800020 3d20c031 38a94214 4bffffcc 9421fff0 7c0802a6 93e1000c 7c7f1b78
90010014 8123001c 2f890000 409e001c <0fe00000> 80010014 83e1000c 38210010
That trace corresponds to this line:
WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "Unbalanced enable for IRQ %d\n", irq);
The patch fixes the problem by moving the SHIRQ code below the
setup_irq().
Unfortunately we can't easily move the SHIRQ code inside the
setup_irq(), since it grabs a spinlock, so to prvent a 'real'
IRQ from interfere us we should disable that IRQ.
p.s. The driver in question is drivers/net/phy/phy.c.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While I'm glad to finally see the hole fixed whereby passing an invalid
IRQ trigger type to request_irq() would be ignored, the current diagnostic
isn't quite useful. Fixed by also listing the trigger type which was
rejected.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace a printk+WARN_ON() by a WARN(); this increases the chance of the
string making it into the bugreport (ie: it goes inside the
---[ cut here ]--- section)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace a printk+WARN_ON() by a WARN(); this increases the chance of the
string making it into the bugreport (ie: it goes inside the
---[ cut here ]--- section)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
set_type returns an int indicating success or failure, but up to now
setup_irq ignores that.
In my case this resulted in a machine hang:
gpio-keys requested IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING | IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING, but
arm/ns9xxx can only trigger on one direction so set_type didn't touch
the configuration which happens do default to a level sensitiveness and
returned -EINVAL. setup_irq ignored that and unmasked the irq. This
resulted in an endless triggering of the gpio-key interrupt service
routine which effectively killed the machine.
With this patch applied setup_irq propagates the error to the caller.
Note that before in the case
chip && !chip->set_type && !chip->name
a NULL pointer was feed to printk. This is fixed, too.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since 15a647eba9 set_irq_wake returned -ENXIO
if another device had it already enabled. Zero is the right value to
return in this case. Moreover the change to desc->status was not reverted
if desc->chip->set_wake returned an error.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9580 it was pointed out
that the desc->chip checks are extraneous. In fact these are left
overs from early development and can be removed safely.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Current IRQ affinity interface does not provide a way to set affinity
for the IRQs that will be allocated/activated in the future.
This patch creates /proc/irq/default_smp_affinity that lets users set
default affinity mask for the newly allocated IRQs. Changing the default
does not affect affinity masks for the currently active IRQs, they
have to be changed explicitly.
Updated based on Paul J's comments and added some more documentation.
Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: pj@sgi.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Uwe Kleine-Koenig has some strange hardware where one of the shared
interrupts can be asserted during boot before the appropriate driver
loads. Requesting the shared irq line from another driver result in a
spurious interrupt storm which finally disables the interrupt line.
I have seen similar behaviour on resume before (the hardware does not
work anymore so I can not verify).
Change the spurious disable logic to increment the disable depth and
mark the interrupt with an extra flag which allows us to reenable the
interrupt when a new driver arrives which requests the same irq
line. In the worst case this will disable the irq again via the
spurious trap, but there is a decent chance that the new driver is the
one which can handle the already asserted interrupt and makes the box
usable again.
Eric Biederman said further: This case also happens on a regular basis
in kdump kernels where we deliberately don't shutdown the hardware
before starting the new kernel. This patch should reduce the need for
using irqpoll in that situation by a small amount.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-and-Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Following an experimental deletion of the unnecessary directive
#include <linux/slab.h>
from the header file <linux/percpu.h>, these files under kernel/ were exposed
as needing to include one of <linux/slab.h> or <linux/gfp.h>, so explicit
includes were added where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
these bugs are harder to find than they seem, a stackdump helps.
make it dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ so that people can turn it off
if it annoys them.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
As it is some callers of synchronize_irq rely on memory barriers
to provide synchronisation against the IRQ handlers. For example,
the tg3 driver does
tp->irq_sync = 1;
smp_mb();
synchronize_irq();
and then in the IRQ handler:
if (!tp->irq_sync)
netif_rx_schedule(dev, &tp->napi);
Unfortunately memory barriers only work well when they come in
pairs. Because we don't actually have memory barriers on the
IRQ path, the memory barrier before the synchronize_irq() doesn't
actually protect us.
In particular, synchronize_irq() may return followed by the
result of netif_rx_schedule being made visible.
This patch (mostly written by Linus) fixes this by using spin
locks instead of memory barries on the synchronize_irq() path.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andy Gospodarek pointed out that because we return in the middle of the
free_irq() function, we never actually do call the IRQ handler that just
got deregistered. This should fix it, although I expect Andrew will want
to convert those 'return's to 'break'. That's a separate change though.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mariusz Kozlowski reported lockdep's warning:
> =================================
> [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> 2.6.23-rc2-mm1 #7
> ---------------------------------
> inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage.
> ifconfig/5492 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
> (&tp->lock){+...}, at: [<de8706e0>] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too]
> {in-hardirq-W} state was registered at:
> [<c0138eeb>] __lock_acquire+0x949/0x11ac
> [<c01397e7>] lock_acquire+0x99/0xb2
> [<c0452ff3>] _spin_lock+0x35/0x42
> [<de8706e0>] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too]
> [<c0147a5d>] handle_IRQ_event+0x28/0x59
> [<c01493ca>] handle_level_irq+0xad/0x10b
> [<c0105a13>] do_IRQ+0x93/0xd0
> [<c010441e>] common_interrupt+0x2e/0x34
...
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 1 lock held by ifconfig/5492:
> #0: (rtnl_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0451778>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
>
> stack backtrace:
...
> [<c0452ff3>] _spin_lock+0x35/0x42
> [<de8706e0>] rtl8139_interrupt+0x27/0x46b [8139too]
> [<c01480fd>] free_irq+0x11b/0x146
> [<de871d59>] rtl8139_close+0x8a/0x14a [8139too]
> [<c03bde63>] dev_close+0x57/0x74
...
This shows that a driver's irq handler was running both in hard interrupt
and process contexts with irqs enabled. The latter was done during
free_irq() call and was possible only with CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ enabled.
This was fixed by another patch.
But similar problem is possible with request_irq(): any locks taken from
irq handler could be vulnerable - especially with soft interrupts. This
patch fixes it by disabling local interrupts during handler's run. (It
seems, disabling softirqs should be enough, but it needs more checking
on possible races or other special cases).
Reported-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we're going to run the handler from free_irq() then we must do it with
local irq's disabled. Otherwise lockdep complains that the handler is taking
irq-safe spinlocks in a non-irq-safe fashion.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An irqaction structure won't be added to an IRQ descriptor irqaction list if
it doesn't agree with other irqactions on the IRQF_PERCPU flag. Don't check
for this flag to change IRQ descriptor `status' for every irqaction added to
the list, Doing the check only for the first irqaction added is enough.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provide funtions to:
- check, whether an interrupt can set the affinity
- pin the interrupt to a given cpu
Necessary for the ability to setup clocksources more flexible (e.g. use the
different HPET channels per CPU)
[akpm@osdl.org: alpha build fix]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a flag so we can prevent the irq balancing of an interrupt. Move the
bits, so we have room for more :)
Necessary for the ability to setup clocksources more flexible (e.g. use the
different HPET channels per CPU)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The problem is various drivers legally validly and sensibly try to claim
IRQs but the kernel insists on vomiting forth a giant irrelevant debugging
spew when the types clash.
Edit kernel/irq/manage.c go down to mismatch: in setup_irq() and ifdef out
the if clause that checks for mismatches. It'll then just do the right
thing and work sanely.
For the current -mm kernel this will do the trick (and moves it into shared
irq debugging as in debug mode the info spew is useful). I've had a
variant of this in my private tree for some time as I got fed up on the
mess on boxes where old legacy IRQs get reused.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Drivers registering IRQ handlers with SA_SHIRQ really ought to be able to
handle an interrupt happening before request_irq() returns. They also
ought to be able to handle an interrupt happening during the start of their
call to free_irq(). Let's test that hypothesis....
[bunk@stusta.de: Kconfig fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Split the implementation-agnostic stuff in separate files.
* Make sure that targets using non-default request_irq() pull
kernel/irq/devres.o
* Introduce new symbols (HAS_IOPORT and HAS_IOMEM) defaulting to positive;
allow architectures to turn them off (we needed these symbols anyway for
dependencies of quite a few drivers).
* protect the ioport-related parts of lib/devres.o with CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement device resource management, in short, devres. A device
driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated
with a release function. On driver detach, release function is
invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed.
devreses are typed by associated release functions. Some devreses are
better represented by single instance of the type while others need
multiple instances sharing the same release function. Both usages are
supported.
devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver
can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization
or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4
ports).
This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following
managed interfaces.
* alloc/free : devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree()
* IO region : devm_request_region(), devm_release_region()
* IRQ : devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq()
* DMA : dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(),
dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(),
dmam_pool_destroy()
* PCI : pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed()
* iomap : devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(),
devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(),
pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap()
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Any newly added irq handler may obviously make any old spurious irq
status invalid, since the new handler may well be the thing that is
supposed to handle any interrupts that came in.
So just clear the statistics when adding handlers.
Pointed-out-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we get a mismatch between handlers on the same IRQ, all we get is "IRQ
handler type mismatch for IRQ n". Let's print the name of the
presently-registered handler with which we got the mismatch.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Typedef the IRQ handler function type.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1356d1e5fd256997e3d3dce0777ab787d0515c7a commit)
IRQs need refcounting and a state flag to track whether the the IRQ should
be enabled or disabled as a "normal IRQ" source after a series of calls to
{en,dis}able_irq(). For shared IRQs, the IRQ must be enabled so long as at
least one driver needs it active.
Likewise, IRQs need the same support to track whether the IRQ should be
enabled or disabled as a "wakeup event" source after a series of calls to
{en,dis}able_irq_wake(). For shared IRQs, the IRQ must be enabled as a
wakeup source during sleep so long as at least one driver needs it. But
right now they _don't have_ that refcounting ... which means sharing a
wakeup-capable IRQ can't work correctly in some configurations.
This patch adds the refcount and flag mechanisms to set_irq_wake() -- which
is what {en,dis}able_irq_wake() call -- and minimal documentation of what
the irq wake mechanism does.
Drivers relying on the older (broken) "toggle" semantics will trigger a
warning; that'll be a handful of drivers on ARM systems.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Do 'make oldconfig' and accept all the defaults for new config options -
reboot into the kernel and if everything goes well it should boot up fine and
you should have /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats files.
Typically if the lock validator finds some problem it will print out
voluminous debug output that begins with "BUG: ..." and which syslog output
can be used by kernel developers to figure out the precise locking scenario.
What does the lock validator do? It "observes" and maps all locking rules as
they occur dynamically (as triggered by the kernel's natural use of spinlocks,
rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems). Whenever the lock validator subsystem detects a
new locking scenario, it validates this new rule against the existing set of
rules. If this new rule is consistent with the existing set of rules then the
new rule is added transparently and the kernel continues as normal. If the
new rule could create a deadlock scenario then this condition is printed out.
When determining validity of locking, all possible "deadlock scenarios" are
considered: assuming arbitrary number of CPUs, arbitrary irq context and task
context constellations, running arbitrary combinations of all the existing
locking scenarios. In a typical system this means millions of separate
scenarios. This is why we call it a "locking correctness" validator - for all
rules that are observed the lock validator proves it with mathematical
certainty that a deadlock could not occur (assuming that the lock validator
implementation itself is correct and its internal data structures are not
corrupted by some other kernel subsystem). [see more details and conditionals
of this statement in include/linux/lockdep.h and
Documentation/lockdep-design.txt]
Furthermore, this "all possible scenarios" property of the validator also
enables the finding of complex, highly unlikely multi-CPU multi-context races
via single single-context rules, increasing the likelyhood of finding bugs
drastically. In practical terms: the lock validator already found a bug in
the upstream kernel that could only occur on systems with 3 or more CPUs, and
which needed 3 very unlikely code sequences to occur at once on the 3 CPUs.
That bug was found and reported on a single-CPU system (!). So in essence a
race will be found "piecemail-wise", triggering all the necessary components
for the race, without having to reproduce the race scenario itself! In its
short existence the lock validator found and reported many bugs before they
actually caused a real deadlock.
To further increase the efficiency of the validator, the mapping is not per
"lock instance", but per "lock-class". For example, all struct inode objects
in the kernel have inode->inotify_mutex. If there are 10,000 inodes cached,
then there are 10,000 lock objects. But ->inotify_mutex is a single "lock
type", and all locking activities that occur against ->inotify_mutex are
"unified" into this single lock-class. The advantage of the lock-class
approach is that all historical ->inotify_mutex uses are mapped into a single
(and as narrow as possible) set of locking rules - regardless of how many
different tasks or inode structures it took to build this set of rules. The
set of rules persist during the lifetime of the kernel.
To see the rough magnitude of checking that the lock validator does, here's a
portion of /proc/lockdep_stats, fresh after bootup:
lock-classes: 694 [max: 2048]
direct dependencies: 1598 [max: 8192]
indirect dependencies: 17896
all direct dependencies: 16206
dependency chains: 1910 [max: 8192]
in-hardirq chains: 17
in-softirq chains: 105
in-process chains: 1065
stack-trace entries: 38761 [max: 131072]
combined max dependencies: 2033928
hardirq-safe locks: 24
hardirq-unsafe locks: 176
softirq-safe locks: 53
softirq-unsafe locks: 137
irq-safe locks: 59
irq-unsafe locks: 176
The lock validator has observed 1598 actual single-thread locking patterns,
and has validated all possible 2033928 distinct locking scenarios.
More details about the design of the lock validator can be found in
Documentation/lockdep-design.txt, which can also found at:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-design.txt
[bunk@stusta.de: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The irqflags consolidation converted SA_PERCPU_IRQ to IRQF_PERCPU but
did not define the new constant.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
IRQ_PER_CPU is a bit in the struct irq_desc "status" field, not in the
struct irqaction "flags", so the previous code checked the wrong bit.
SA_PERCPU_IRQ is only used by drivers/char/mmtimer.c for SGI ia64 boxes.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Enable drivers to request an IRQ with a given irq-flow (trigger/polarity)
setting.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
