From 425a5072dcd1bd895eea90a6b495392b6358ebd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:02:22 +0100 Subject: genirq: Free irq_desc with rcu The new VMD device driver needs to iterate over a list of "demultiplexing" interrupts. Protecting that list with a lock is not possible because the list is also required in code pathes which hold irq descriptor lock. Therefor the demultiplexing interrupt handler would create a lock inversion scenario if it calls a demux handler with the list protection lock held. A solution for this is to free the irq descriptor via RCU, so the list can be walked with rcu read lock held. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Keith Busch --- kernel/irq/irqdesc.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/irq') diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c index 239e2ae2c947..0409da0bcc33 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c +++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ static struct irq_desc *alloc_desc(int irq, int node, struct module *owner) raw_spin_lock_init(&desc->lock); lockdep_set_class(&desc->lock, &irq_desc_lock_class); + init_rcu_head(&desc->rcu); desc_set_defaults(irq, desc, node, owner); @@ -171,6 +172,15 @@ err_desc: return NULL; } +static void delayed_free_desc(struct rcu_head *rhp) +{ + struct irq_desc *desc = container_of(rhp, struct irq_desc, rcu); + + free_masks(desc); + free_percpu(desc->kstat_irqs); + kfree(desc); +} + static void free_desc(unsigned int irq) { struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(irq); @@ -187,9 +197,12 @@ static void free_desc(unsigned int irq) delete_irq_desc(irq); mutex_unlock(&sparse_irq_lock); - free_masks(desc); - free_percpu(desc->kstat_irqs); - kfree(desc); + /* + * We free the descriptor, masks and stat fields via RCU. That + * allows demultiplex interrupts to do rcu based management of + * the child interrupts. + */ + call_rcu(&desc->rcu, delayed_free_desc); } static int alloc_descs(unsigned int start, unsigned int cnt, int node, -- cgit v1.2.3