Kernel: Add the ability to verify we don't kmalloc under spinlock.

Ideally we would never allocate under a spinlock, as it has many
performance and potentially functionality (deadlock) pitfalls.

We violate that rule in many places today, but we need a tool to track
them all down and fix them. This change introduces a new macro option
named `KMALLOC_VERIFY_NO_SPINLOCK_HELD` which can catch these
situations at runtime via an assert.
This commit is contained in:
Brian Gianforcaro 2021-05-14 04:09:06 -07:00 committed by Andreas Kling
parent 6329e9fce6
commit 9c38475608
3 changed files with 18 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -134,6 +134,10 @@
#cmakedefine01 KMALLOC_DEBUG
#endif
#ifndef KMALLOC_VERIFY_NO_SPINLOCK_HELD
#cmakedefine01 KMALLOC_VERIFY_NO_SPINLOCK_HELD
#endif
#ifndef LOCAL_SOCKET_DEBUG
#cmakedefine01 LOCAL_SOCKET_DEBUG
#endif

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@ -204,6 +204,14 @@ void kmalloc_enable_expand()
g_kmalloc_global->allocate_backup_memory();
}
static inline void kmalloc_verify_nospinlock_held()
{
// Catch bad callers allocating under spinlock.
if constexpr (KMALLOC_VERIFY_NO_SPINLOCK_HELD) {
VERIFY(!Processor::current().in_critical());
}
}
UNMAP_AFTER_INIT void kmalloc_init()
{
// Zero out heap since it's placed after end_of_kernel_bss.
@ -219,6 +227,8 @@ UNMAP_AFTER_INIT void kmalloc_init()
void* kmalloc_eternal(size_t size)
{
kmalloc_verify_nospinlock_held();
size = round_up_to_power_of_two(size, sizeof(void*));
ScopedSpinLock lock(s_lock);
@ -231,6 +241,7 @@ void* kmalloc_eternal(size_t size)
void* kmalloc(size_t size)
{
kmalloc_verify_nospinlock_held();
ScopedSpinLock lock(s_lock);
++g_kmalloc_call_count;
@ -252,6 +263,7 @@ void kfree(void* ptr)
if (!ptr)
return;
kmalloc_verify_nospinlock_held();
ScopedSpinLock lock(s_lock);
++g_kfree_call_count;
@ -260,6 +272,7 @@ void kfree(void* ptr)
void* krealloc(void* ptr, size_t new_size)
{
kmalloc_verify_nospinlock_held();
ScopedSpinLock lock(s_lock);
return g_kmalloc_global->m_heap.reallocate(ptr, new_size);
}

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@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ set(PORTABLE_IMAGE_LOADER_DEBUG ON)
set(SYNTAX_HIGHLIGHTING_DEBUG ON)
set(KEYBOARD_SHORTCUTS_DEBUG ON)
set(KMALLOC_DEBUG ON)
set(KMALLOC_VERIFY_NO_SPINLOCK_HELD ON)
set(MARKDOWN_DEBUG ON)
set(REGEX_DEBUG ON)
set(TLS_DEBUG ON)