On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> > So far remedies were:
> > a) grep(1) -- obviously fragile. I tried at some point grepping for
> > spin_lock_irqsave(), found quite a few, but it became booooring quickly.
> > b) BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(flags) != sizeof(unsigned long)) -- was tried,
> > brutally broke some arches, survived one commit before revert :^)
> > Doesn't work on i386 where sizeof(unsigned int) == sizeof(unsigned long).
> >
> > So it would be nice to have something more robust.
>
> If it's just about the type checking, something like below should pretty
> much do the same.
It won't catch, the following if both variables are unsigned long:
spin_lock_irqsave(&lock, flags);
[stuff]
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lock, foo->flags);
It won't catch "static unsigned long flags;". With sparse, we can
eventually mark type as "on-stack only".
> > * irq_flags_t allows arch maintainers to eventually switch to something
> > smaller than "unsigned long" if they want to.
>
> Considering how painful this conversion could be, the question is whether
> this is really needed.
In the long run, I believe, this is needed. We want more bugs to be
found automatically, so we can have more time for non-trivial bugs.
> Comments so far suggest some archs don't need all
> of it, but does someone need more?
I don't know.
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/irqflags.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/irqflags.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
> # define INIT_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> #endif
>
> +static __always_inline void __irq_flags_check(unsigned long *flags)
> +{
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
>
> #include <asm/irqflags.h>
> @@ -50,10 +54,11 @@
> #define local_irq_disable() \
> do { raw_local_irq_disable(); trace_hardirqs_off(); } while (0)
> #define local_irq_save(flags) \
> - do { raw_local_irq_save(flags); trace_hardirqs_off(); } while (0)
> + do { __irq_flags_check(&flags); raw_local_irq_save(flags); trace_hardirqs_off(); } while (0)
>
> #define local_irq_restore(flags) \
> do { \
> + __irq_flags_check(&flags); \
> if (raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) { \
> raw_local_irq_restore(flags); \
> trace_hardirqs_off(); \
> @@ -69,8 +74,8 @@
> */
> # define raw_local_irq_disable() local_irq_disable()
> # define raw_local_irq_enable() local_irq_enable()
> -# define raw_local_irq_save(flags) local_irq_save(flags)
> -# define raw_local_irq_restore(flags) local_irq_restore(flags)
> +# define raw_local_irq_save(flags) ({ __irq_flags_check(&flags); local_irq_save(flags); })
> +# define raw_local_irq_restore(flags) ({ __irq_flags_check(&flags); local_irq_restore(flags); })
> #endif /* CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
-
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