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Two small updates to ptrace_stop():

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- Add a comment to explain that the preempt_disable() before unlocking
     tasklist lock is not a correctness problem and just avoids the tracer
     to preempt the tracee before the tracee schedules out.
 
   - Make that preempt_disable() conditional on PREEMPT_RT=n.
 
     RT enabled kernels cannot disable preemption at this point because
     cgroup_enter_frozen() and sched_submit_work() acquire spinlocks or
     rwlocks which are substituted by sleeping locks on RT. Acquiring a
     sleeping lock in a preemption disable region is obviously not possible.
 
     This obviously brings back the potential slowdown of ptrace() for RT
     enabled kernels, but that's a price to be payed for latency guarantees.
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Merge tag 'core-core-2023-10-29-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two small updates to ptrace_stop():

   - Add a comment to explain that the preempt_disable() before
     unlocking tasklist lock is not a correctness problem and just
     avoids the tracer to preempt the tracee before the tracee schedules
     out.

   - Make that preempt_disable() conditional on PREEMPT_RT=n.

     RT enabled kernels cannot disable preemption at this point because
     cgroup_enter_frozen() and sched_submit_work() acquire spinlocks or
     rwlocks which are substituted by sleeping locks on RT. Acquiring a
     sleeping lock in a preemption disable region is obviously not
     possible.

     This obviously brings back the potential slowdown of ptrace() for
     RT enabled kernels, but that's a price to be paid for latency
     guarantees"

* tag 'core-core-2023-10-29-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  signal: Don't disable preemption in ptrace_stop() on PREEMPT_RT
  signal: Add a proper comment about preempt_disable() in ptrace_stop()
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Linus Torvalds 2023-10-30 17:03:32 -10:00
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@ -2329,15 +2329,38 @@ static int ptrace_stop(int exit_code, int why, unsigned long message,
do_notify_parent_cldstop(current, false, why);
/*
* Don't want to allow preemption here, because
* sys_ptrace() needs this task to be inactive.
* The previous do_notify_parent_cldstop() invocation woke ptracer.
* One a PREEMPTION kernel this can result in preemption requirement
* which will be fulfilled after read_unlock() and the ptracer will be
* put on the CPU.
* The ptracer is in wait_task_inactive(, __TASK_TRACED) waiting for
* this task wait in schedule(). If this task gets preempted then it
* remains enqueued on the runqueue. The ptracer will observe this and
* then sleep for a delay of one HZ tick. In the meantime this task
* gets scheduled, enters schedule() and will wait for the ptracer.
*
* XXX: implement read_unlock_no_resched().
* This preemption point is not bad from a correctness point of
* view but extends the runtime by one HZ tick time due to the
* ptracer's sleep. The preempt-disable section ensures that there
* will be no preemption between unlock and schedule() and so
* improving the performance since the ptracer will observe that
* the tracee is scheduled out once it gets on the CPU.
*
* On PREEMPT_RT locking tasklist_lock does not disable preemption.
* Therefore the task can be preempted after do_notify_parent_cldstop()
* before unlocking tasklist_lock so there is no benefit in doing this.
*
* In fact disabling preemption is harmful on PREEMPT_RT because
* the spinlock_t in cgroup_enter_frozen() must not be acquired
* with preemption disabled due to the 'sleeping' spinlock
* substitution of RT.
*/
preempt_disable();
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
preempt_disable();
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
cgroup_enter_frozen();
preempt_enable_no_resched();
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
cgroup_leave_frozen(true);