pstore: Allow prz to control need for locking

In preparation of not locking at all for certain buffers depending on if
there's contention, make locking optional depending on the initialization
of the prz.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
[kees: moved locking flag into prz instead of via caller arguments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 6d1393965b0a..86ac59066fba 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static int ramoops_init_przs(struct device *dev, struct ramoops_context *cxt,
 	for (i = 0; i < cxt->max_dump_cnt; i++) {
 		cxt->przs[i] = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, cxt->record_size, 0,
 						  &cxt->ecc_info,
-						  cxt->memtype);
+						  cxt->memtype, 0);
 		if (IS_ERR(cxt->przs[i])) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(cxt->przs[i]);
 			dev_err(dev, "failed to request mem region (0x%zx@0x%llx): %d\n",
@@ -469,7 +469,8 @@ static int ramoops_init_prz(struct device *dev, struct ramoops_context *cxt,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	*prz = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, sig, &cxt->ecc_info, cxt->memtype);
+	*prz = persistent_ram_new(*paddr, sz, sig, &cxt->ecc_info,
+				  cxt->memtype, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR(*prz)) {
 		int err = PTR_ERR(*prz);
 
diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
index cb92055e6016..a857338b7dab 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram_core.c
@@ -53,9 +53,10 @@ static size_t buffer_start_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
 {
 	int old;
 	int new;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long flags = 0;
 
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+	if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
+		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
 
 	old = atomic_read(&prz->buffer->start);
 	new = old + a;
@@ -63,7 +64,8 @@ static size_t buffer_start_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
 		new -= prz->buffer_size;
 	atomic_set(&prz->buffer->start, new);
 
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+	if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
+		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
 
 	return old;
 }
@@ -73,9 +75,10 @@ static void buffer_size_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
 {
 	size_t old;
 	size_t new;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long flags = 0;
 
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+	if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
+		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
 
 	old = atomic_read(&prz->buffer->size);
 	if (old == prz->buffer_size)
@@ -87,7 +90,8 @@ static void buffer_size_add(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, size_t a)
 	atomic_set(&prz->buffer->size, new);
 
 exit:
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
+	if (!(prz->flags & PRZ_FLAG_NO_LOCK))
+		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prz->buffer_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void notrace persistent_ram_encode_rs8(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz,
@@ -463,7 +467,8 @@ static int persistent_ram_buffer_map(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t size,
 }
 
 static int persistent_ram_post_init(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, u32 sig,
-				    struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info)
+				    struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info,
+				    unsigned long flags)
 {
 	int ret;
 
@@ -492,6 +497,7 @@ static int persistent_ram_post_init(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz, u32 sig,
 	prz->buffer->sig = sig;
 	persistent_ram_zap(prz);
 	prz->buffer_lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(buffer_lock);
+	prz->flags = flags;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -516,7 +522,7 @@ void persistent_ram_free(struct persistent_ram_zone *prz)
 
 struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
 			u32 sig, struct persistent_ram_ecc_info *ecc_info,
-			unsigned int memtype)
+			unsigned int memtype, u32 flags)
 {
 	struct persistent_ram_zone *prz;
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -531,7 +537,7 @@ struct persistent_ram_zone *persistent_ram_new(phys_addr_t start, size_t size,
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 
-	ret = persistent_ram_post_init(prz, sig, ecc_info);
+	ret = persistent_ram_post_init(prz, sig, ecc_info, flags);
 	if (ret)
 		goto err;