From 9852a7212324fd25f896932f4f4607ce47b0a22f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:16:19 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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 a459eeb7b852 ("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>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 1 -
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
mm/swap.c | 16 ++++++++--------
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index c2b8128799c1e..0bd4c25016f95 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -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);
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index c52aa05b106c7..999ce3af809d8 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
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);
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 38e1b6374a977..e824c800adca5 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -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
--
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