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Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc

From Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc
Date 2017-02-08 16:30 +0100
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:

> > Huch? stop_machine() is horrible and heavy weight. Don't go there, there
> > must be simpler solutions than that.
>
> Absolutely agreed. We are in the page allocator path so using the
> stop_machine* is just ridiculous. And, in fact, there is a much simpler
> solution [1]

That is nonsense. stop_machine would be used when adding removing a
processor. There would be no need to synchronize when looping over active
cpus anymore. get_online_cpus() etc would be removed from the hot
path since the cpu masks are guaranteed to be stable.

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Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2017-02-06 20:20 +0100
  Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-06 23:10 +0100
    Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 09:50 +0100
      Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 10:30 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 10:50 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 11:00 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 11:50 +0100
          Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 12:20 +0100
      Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 10:50 +0100
        Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 11:00 +0100
          Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 11:10 +0100
          Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 11:30 +0100
            Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 11:40 +0100
              Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 12:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 12:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 13:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 13:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 13:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 13:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 13:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-02-07 15:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 15:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 15:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 16:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 17:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 17:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-07 18:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-07 23:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-08 08:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 13:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-08 13:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-08 13:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-08 15:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-02-08 18:00 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 15:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-08 16:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-08 17:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 19:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 04:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 12:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 15:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 16:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 16:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 17:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-09 18:30 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-09 18:50 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-09 20:20 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-10 19:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-08 18:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> - 2017-02-08 16:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 18:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 21:40 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-02-07 14:10 +0100
                Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 14:50 +0100
    Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> - 2017-02-07 12:30 +0100
  Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-07 09:50 +0100
  Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-07 23:40 +0100

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