Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: improve current->(hard|soft)irqs_enabled synchronisation with actual irq state

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:40:10 +0200

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 08:56:14PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
> index 3a0db7b0b46e..35060be09073 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
> @@ -200,17 +200,14 @@ static inline bool arch_irqs_disabled(void)
>  #define powerpc_local_irq_pmu_save(flags)			\
>  	 do {							\
>  		raw_local_irq_pmu_save(flags);			\
> -		trace_hardirqs_off();				\
> +		if (!raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags))		\
> +			trace_hardirqs_off();			\
>  	} while(0)
>  #define powerpc_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags)			\
>  	do {							\
> -		if (raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) {		\
> -			raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags);	\
> -			trace_hardirqs_off();			\
> -		} else {					\
> +		if (!raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags))		\
>  			trace_hardirqs_on();			\
> -			raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags);	\
> -		}						\
> +		raw_local_irq_pmu_restore(flags);		\
>  	} while(0)

You shouldn't be calling lockdep from NMI context! That is, I recently
added suport for that on x86:

  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]

But you need to be very careful on how you order things, as you can see
the above relies on preempt_count() already having been incremented with
NMI_MASK.