From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> To: barebox@lists.infradead.org Cc: Jan Luebbe <j.luebbe@pengutronix.de>, Sascha Hauer <a.hauer@pengutronix.de>, Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Subject: [PATCH v4 4/8] common: bthread: schedule only in command context Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:26:13 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210622082617.18011-5-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20210622082617.18011-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> Originally, I envisioned bthreads as replacement for pollers and workqueues. But even without preemption, having functions you call possibly accessing structures you are iterating over can corrupt memory. This problem exists with pollers as well, but because of their limited scope, it's harder to shoot your foot with them, as you don't keep implicit state between poller activations unlike bthreads, which maintain their stack across context switches. Limit bthread scope instead to be a replacement for workqueues. This still allows us to port some classes of state-machine-in-kthread kernel code, while avoding the aforementioned pitfalls. Cc: Jan Luebbe <j.luebbe@pengutronix.de> Cc: Sascha Hauer <a.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> --- commands/bthread.c | 5 +++++ common/sched.c | 6 +++--- include/slice.h | 2 -- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/commands/bthread.c b/commands/bthread.c index 964a1044c58b..0c9c221884e8 100644 --- a/commands/bthread.c +++ b/commands/bthread.c @@ -10,12 +10,15 @@ #include <command.h> #include <getopt.h> #include <clock.h> +#include <slice.h> static int bthread_time(void) { uint64_t start = get_time_ns(); int i = 0; + slice_release(&command_slice); + /* * How many background tasks can we have in one second? * @@ -25,6 +28,8 @@ static int bthread_time(void) while (!is_timeout(start, SECOND)) i++; + slice_acquire(&command_slice); + return i; } diff --git a/common/sched.c b/common/sched.c index dcf6522ac058..02582b2c5e4d 100644 --- a/common/sched.c +++ b/common/sched.c @@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ void resched(void) command_slice_acquire(); - if (run_workqueues) + if (run_workqueues) { wq_do_all_works(); + bthread_reschedule(); + } poller_call(); command_slice_release(); - - bthread_reschedule(); } diff --git a/include/slice.h b/include/slice.h index 67d47b9082e6..6c4688e308fa 100644 --- a/include/slice.h +++ b/include/slice.h @@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ void command_slice_release(void); #define assert_command_context() do { \ WARN_ONCE(poller_active(), "%s called in poller\n", __func__); \ - WARN_ONCE(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BTHREAD) && !bthread_is_main(current), \ - "%s called in secondary bthread\n", __func__); \ } while (0) #endif -- 2.29.2 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-22 8:27 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-06-22 8:26 [PATCH v4 0/8] usbgadget: add support for USB mass storage gadget Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] input: virtio: poll from poller, not bthread Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] bthread: add debug print for scheduler context switches Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] common: move workqueue handling from poller_call() to sched() Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message] 2021-06-22 9:08 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] common: bthread: schedule only in command context Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] bthread: implement basic Linux-like completion API Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] Documentation: devel: background-execution: update bthread docs Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] usbgadget: refactor usbgadget_register to accept array Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-22 8:26 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] usbgadget: add support for USB mass storage gadget Ahmad Fatoum 2021-06-25 7:34 ` [PATCH v4 0/8] " Sascha Hauer
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