[PATCH] 2.6 PPC64: lockfix for rtas error log (third-times-a-charm?)]

linas at austin.ibm.com linas at austin.ibm.com
Sat Jul 3 02:05:41 EST 2004


Here's the latest set patch w/ whitespace fixes.

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:29:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 04:20:50PM -0500, linas at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> >
> > Is this really important enough to gen a new patch? If that's what it
> > takes to get the patch accepted, I'll do it ...
>
> Please do.

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Upon closer analysis of the code, I see that log_rtas_error()
was incorrectly named, and was being used incorrectly.  The
solution is to get rid of it entirely; see patch below. So:

-- In one case kmalloc must be GFP_ATOMIC because rtas_call()
can happen in any context, incl. irqs.
-- In the other case, I turned it into GFP_KENREL, at the cost
of doing a needless malloc/free in the vast majority of
cases where there is no error.  Small price, as I beleive
that this routine is very rarely called.

Patch below,
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas at linas.org>


-------------- next part --------------
--- arch/ppc64/kernel/rtas.c.orig-pre-lockfix	2004-06-29 17:02:12.000000000 -0500
+++ arch/ppc64/kernel/rtas.c	2004-07-02 10:52:50.000000000 -0500
@@ -98,8 +98,14 @@ rtas_token(const char *service)
 }


+/** Return a copy of the detailed error text associated with the
+ *  most recent failed call to rtas.  Because the error text
+ *  might go stale if there are any other intervening rtas calls,
+ *  this routine must be called atomically with whatever produced
+ *  the error (i.e. with rtas.lock still held from the previous call).
+ */
 static int
-__log_rtas_error(void)
+__fetch_rtas_last_error(void)
 {
 	struct rtas_args err_args, save_args;

@@ -126,19 +132,6 @@ __log_rtas_error(void)
 	return err_args.rets[0];
 }

-void
-log_rtas_error(void)
-{
-	unsigned long s;
-	int rc;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtas.lock, s);
-	rc = __log_rtas_error();
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtas.lock, s);
-	if (rc == 0)
-		log_error(rtas_err_buf, ERR_TYPE_RTAS_LOG, 0);
-}
-
 int
 rtas_call(int token, int nargs, int nret,
 	  unsigned long *outputs, ...)
@@ -147,6 +140,7 @@ rtas_call(int token, int nargs, int nret
 	int i, logit = 0;
 	unsigned long s;
 	struct rtas_args *rtas_args;
+	char * buff_copy = NULL;
 	int ret;

 	PPCDBG(PPCDBG_RTAS, "Entering rtas_call\n");
@@ -181,7 +175,7 @@ rtas_call(int token, int nargs, int nret
 	PPCDBG(PPCDBG_RTAS, "\treturned from rtas ...\n");

 	if (rtas_args->rets[0] == -1)
-		logit = (__log_rtas_error() == 0);
+		logit = (__fetch_rtas_last_error() == 0);

 	ifppcdebug(PPCDBG_RTAS) {
 		for(i=0; i < nret ;i++)
@@ -193,12 +187,21 @@ rtas_call(int token, int nargs, int nret
 			outputs[i] = rtas_args->rets[i+1];
 	ret = (int)((nret > 0) ? rtas_args->rets[0] : 0);

+	/* Log the error in the unlikely case that there was one. */
+	if (unlikely(logit)) {
+		buff_copy = kmalloc(RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		if (buff_copy) {
+			memcpy(buff_copy, rtas_err_buf, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX);
+		}
+	}
+
 	/* Gotta do something different here, use global lock for now... */
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtas.lock, s);

-	if (logit)
-		log_error(rtas_err_buf, ERR_TYPE_RTAS_LOG, 0);
-
+	if (buff_copy) {
+		log_error(buff_copy, ERR_TYPE_RTAS_LOG, 0);
+		kfree(buff_copy);
+	}
 	return ret;
 }

@@ -218,7 +221,7 @@ rtas_extended_busy_delay_time(int status

 	/* Use microseconds for reasonable accuracy */
 	for (ms=1; order > 0; order--)
-		ms *= 10;
+		ms *= 10;

 	return ms;
 }
@@ -409,9 +412,9 @@ rtas_restart(char *cmd)
 	if (rtas_firmware_flash_list.next)
 		rtas_flash_firmware();

-        printk("RTAS system-reboot returned %d\n",
+	printk("RTAS system-reboot returned %d\n",
 	       rtas_call(rtas_token("system-reboot"), 0, 1, NULL));
-        for (;;);
+	for (;;);
 }

 void
@@ -419,10 +422,10 @@ rtas_power_off(void)
 {
 	if (rtas_firmware_flash_list.next)
 		rtas_flash_bypass_warning();
-        /* allow power on only with power button press */
-        printk("RTAS power-off returned %d\n",
-               rtas_call(rtas_token("power-off"), 2, 1, NULL,0xffffffff,0xffffffff));
-        for (;;);
+	/* allow power on only with power button press */
+	printk("RTAS power-off returned %d\n",
+	       rtas_call(rtas_token("power-off"), 2, 1, NULL,0xffffffff,0xffffffff));
+	for (;;);
 }

 void
@@ -430,7 +433,7 @@ rtas_halt(void)
 {
 	if (rtas_firmware_flash_list.next)
 		rtas_flash_bypass_warning();
-        rtas_power_off();
+	rtas_power_off();
 }

 /* Must be in the RMO region, so we place it here */
@@ -460,7 +463,9 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args
 {
 	struct rtas_args args;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	char * buff_copy;
 	int nargs;
+	int err_rc;

 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
@@ -479,18 +484,32 @@ asmlinkage int ppc_rtas(struct rtas_args
 			   nargs * sizeof(rtas_arg_t)) != 0)
 		return -EFAULT;

+	buff_copy = kmalloc(RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&rtas.lock, flags);

 	get_paca()->xRtas = args;
 	enter_rtas(__pa(&get_paca()->xRtas));
 	args = get_paca()->xRtas;

-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtas.lock, flags);
-
 	args.rets  = (rtas_arg_t *)&(args.args[nargs]);
-	if (args.rets[0] == -1)
-		log_rtas_error();

+	if (args.rets[0] == -1) {
+		err_rc = __fetch_rtas_last_error();
+		if ((err_rc == 0) && buff_copy) {
+			memcpy(buff_copy, rtas_err_buf, RTAS_ERROR_LOG_MAX);
+		}
+	}
+
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtas.lock, flags);
+
+	if (buff_copy) {
+		if ((args.rets[0] == -1) && (err_rc == 0)) {
+			log_error(buff_copy, ERR_TYPE_RTAS_LOG, 0);
+		}
+		kfree(buff_copy);
+	}
+
 	/* Copy out args. */
 	if (copy_to_user(uargs->args + nargs,
 			 args.args + nargs,


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