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mm: delete unnecessary and unsafe init_tlb_ubc() 

init_tlb_ubc() looked unnecessary to me: tlb_ubc is statically
initialized with zeroes in the init_task, and copied from parent to
child while it is quiescent in arch_dup_task_struct(); so I went to
delete it.

But inserted temporary debug WARN_ONs in place of init_tlb_ubc() to
check that it was always empty at that point, and found them firing:
because memcg reclaim can recurse into global reclaim (when allocating
biosets for swapout in my case), and arrive back at the init_tlb_ubc()
in shrink_node_memcg().

Resetting tlb_ubc.flush_required at that point is wrong: if the upper
level needs a deferred TLB flush, but the lower level turns out not to,
we miss a TLB flush.  But fortunately, that's the only part of the
protocol that does not nest: with the initialization removed, cpumask
collects bits from upper and lower levels, and flushes TLB when needed.

Fixes: 72b252aed5 ("mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.3+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Hugh Dickins 2016-09-23 20:27:04 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 71664665c3
commit b385d21f27
1 changed files with 0 additions and 19 deletions
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@ -2303,23 +2303,6 @@ out:
}
}
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH
static void init_tlb_ubc(void)
{
/*
* This deliberately does not clear the cpumask as it's expensive
* and unnecessary. If there happens to be data in there then the
* first SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages will send an unnecessary IPI and
* then will be cleared.
*/
current->tlb_ubc.flush_required = false;
}
#else
static inline void init_tlb_ubc(void)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH */
/*
* This is a basic per-node page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim.
*/
@ -2355,8 +2338,6 @@ static void shrink_node_memcg(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct mem_cgroup *memc
scan_adjusted = (global_reclaim(sc) && !current_is_kswapd() &&
sc->priority == DEF_PRIORITY);
init_tlb_ubc();
blk_start_plug(&plug);
while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] ||
nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) {