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mm: drop hotplug lock from lru_add_drain_all() 

Pulling cpu hotplug locks inside the mm core function like
lru_add_drain_all just asks for problems and the recent lockdep splat
[1] just proves this.  While the usage in that particular case might be
wrong we should avoid the locking as lru_add_drain_all() is used in many
places.  It seems that this is not all that hard to achieve actually.

We have done the same thing for drain_all_pages which is analogous by
commit a459eeb7b8 ("mm, page_alloc: do not depend on cpu hotplug locks
inside the allocator").  All we have to care about is to handle

      - the work item might be executed on a different cpu in worker from
        unbound pool so it doesn't run on pinned on the cpu

      - we have to make sure that we do not race with page_alloc_cpu_dead
        calling lru_add_drain_cpu

the first part is already handled because the worker calls lru_add_drain
which disables preemption when calling lru_add_drain_cpu on the local
cpu it is draining.  The later is true because page_alloc_cpu_dead is
called on the controlling CPU after the hotplugged CPU vanished
completely.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/089e0825eec8955c1f055c83d476@google.com

[add a cpu hotplug locking interaction as per tglx]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171116120535.23765-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Michal Hocko 2018-01-31 16:16:19 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0486a38bcc
commit 9852a72123
3 changed files with 9 additions and 10 deletions
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include/linux/swap.h
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@ -332,7 +332,6 @@ extern void mark_page_accessed(struct page *);
extern void lru_add_drain(void);
extern void lru_add_drain_cpu(int cpu);
extern void lru_add_drain_all(void);
extern void lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked(void);
extern void rotate_reclaimable_page(struct page *page);
extern void deactivate_file_page(struct page *page);
extern void mark_page_lazyfree(struct page *page);

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mm/memory_hotplug.c
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@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ repeat:
goto failed_removal;
cond_resched();
lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked();
lru_add_drain_all();
drain_all_pages(zone);
pfn = scan_movable_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn);

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mm/swap.c
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@ -688,7 +688,14 @@ static void lru_add_drain_per_cpu(struct work_struct *dummy)
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, lru_add_drain_work);
void lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked(void)
/*
* Doesn't need any cpu hotplug locking because we do rely on per-cpu
* kworkers being shut down before our page_alloc_cpu_dead callback is
* executed on the offlined cpu.
* Calling this function with cpu hotplug locks held can actually lead
* to obscure indirect dependencies via WQ context.
*/
void lru_add_drain_all(void)
{
static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
static struct cpumask has_work;
@ -724,13 +731,6 @@ void lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked(void)
mutex_unlock(&lock);
}
void lru_add_drain_all(void)
{
get_online_cpus();
lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked();
put_online_cpus();
}
/**
* release_pages - batched put_page()
* @pages: array of pages to release