linux/kernel/locking
Boqun Feng e901c1510e irq,spin_lock: Add counted interrupt disabling/enabling
Currently the nested interrupt disabling and enabling is represented by
_irqsave() and _irqrestore() APIs, which are relatively unsafe, for
example:

	<interrupts are enabled as beginning>
	spin_lock_irqsave(l1, flag1);
	spin_lock_irqsave(l2, flag2);
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(l1, flags1);
	<l2 is still held but interrupts are enabled>
	// accesses to interrupt-disable protected data will cause races

This is even easier to trigger with guard facilities:

	unsigned long flag2;

	scoped_guard(spin_lock_irqsave, l1) {
		spin_lock_irqsave(l2, flag2);
	}
	// l2 locked but interrupts are enabled.
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(l2, flag2);

(Hand-to-hand locking critical sections are not uncommon for a
fine-grained lock design)

And because of this unsafety, Rust cannot easily wrap the
interrupt-disabling locks in a safe API, which complicates the design.

To resolve this, introduce a new set of interrupt disabling APIs:

*	local_interrupt_disable();
*	local_interrupt_enable();

They work like local_irq_save() and local_irq_restore() except that 1)
the outermost local_interrupt_disable() call saves the interrupt state
into a per-CPU variable, so that the outermost local_interrupt_enable()
can restore the state, and 2) a per-CPU counter is added to record the
nest level of these calls, so that interrupts are not accidentally
enabled inside the outermost critical section.

Also add the corresponding spin_lock primitives: spin_lock_irq_disable()
and spin_unlock_irq_enable(), as a result, code as follows:

	spin_lock_irq_disable(l1);
	spin_lock_irq_disable(l2);
	spin_unlock_irq_enable(l1);
	// Interrupts are still disabled.
	spin_unlock_irq_enable(l2);

doesn't have the issue that interrupts are accidentally enabled.

This also makes the wrapper of interrupt-disabling locks on Rust easier
to design.

[boqun: Apply Peter's feedback and fix spell errors reported by Ingo]
[boqun: Address the duplicate spin_acquire() spotted by sashiko]
Co-developed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804182657.87716-1-boqun@kernel.org
2026-08-10 10:50:18 +02:00
..
irqflag-debug.c lockdep: Noinstr annotate warn_bogus_irq_restore() 2021-02-10 14:44:39 +01:00
lock_events_list.h bpf_res_spin_lock 2025-03-30 13:06:27 -07:00
lock_events.c locking/debug: Fix debugfs API return value checks to use IS_ERR() 2023-10-03 10:11:25 +02:00
lock_events.h locking/qspinlock: Always evaluate lockevent* non-event parameter once 2024-03-21 20:45:17 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h locking/lockdep: Change 'static const' variables to enum values 2025-07-14 21:57:29 -07:00
lockdep_proc.c locking/lockdep: Avoid struct return in lock_stats() 2025-07-14 21:57:20 -07:00
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c locking/lockdep: Fix NULL pointer dereference in __lock_set_class() 2026-07-31 10:32:24 +02:00
locktorture.c Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses 2026-02-22 08:26:33 -08:00
Makefile locking/rwsem: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
mcs_spinlock.h locking: Allow obtaining result of arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended 2025-03-19 08:03:04 -07:00
mutex-debug.c Scheduler changes for v7.1: 2026-04-14 13:33:36 -07:00
mutex.c tracing/lock: Use TRACE_EVENT_FN() for contended_release 2026-08-07 17:58:10 +02:00
mutex.h Scheduler changes for v7.1: 2026-04-14 13:33:36 -07:00
osq_lock.c locking/osq_lock: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_release() in osq_unlock() 2024-10-25 10:01:50 +02:00
percpu-rwsem.c locking/percpu-rwsem: Annotate intentional data race in readers_active_check() 2026-07-31 10:32:25 +02:00
qrwlock.c locking: Add __lockfunc to slow path functions 2022-08-19 19:47:51 +02:00
qspinlock_paravirt.h locking/pvqspinlock: Convert fields of 'enum vcpu_state' to uppercase 2024-10-17 21:21:16 -07:00
qspinlock_stat.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
qspinlock.c locking/qspinlock: Add contended_release tracepoint 2026-08-07 17:58:10 +02:00
qspinlock.h locking: Move common qspinlock helpers to a private header 2025-03-19 08:02:29 -07:00
rtmutex_api.c Locking updates for v7.2: 2026-06-15 14:21:14 +05:30
rtmutex_common.h locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
rtmutex.c Locking updates for v7.2: 2026-06-15 14:21:14 +05:30
rwbase_rt.c locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks 2026-06-11 13:41:25 +02:00
rwsem.c locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks 2026-06-11 13:41:25 +02:00
semaphore.c locking: Add contended_release tracepoint to sleepable locks 2026-06-11 13:41:25 +02:00
spinlock_debug.c locking/spinlock/debug: Fix data-race in do_raw_write_lock 2025-10-21 12:31:55 +02:00
spinlock_rt.c locking/rt: Fix the incorrect RCU protection in rt_spin_unlock() 2026-06-21 11:51:13 +02:00
spinlock.c irq,spin_lock: Add counted interrupt disabling/enabling 2026-08-10 10:50:18 +02:00
test-ww_mutex.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
ww_mutex.h sched/proxy: Remove PROXY_WAKING 2026-06-02 12:26:09 +02:00
ww_rt_mutex.c locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00