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| From | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc |
| Date | 2017-02-07 12:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <t8chQ-2ff-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 11:35:52AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 07-02-17 10:28:09, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 10:49:28AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > > On 02/07/2017 10:43 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > > If I'm reading this right, a hot-remove will set the pool POOL_DISASSOCIATED
> > > > and unbound. A workqueue queued for draining get migrated during hot-remove
> > > > and a drain operation will execute twice on a CPU -- one for what was
> > > > queued and a second time for the CPU it was migrated from. It should still
> > > > work with flush_work which doesn't appear to block forever if an item
> > > > got migrated to another workqueue. The actual drain workqueue function is
> > > > using the CPU ID it's currently running on so it shouldn't get confused.
> > >
> > > Is the worker that will process this migrated workqueue also guaranteed
> > > to be pinned to a cpu for the whole work, though? drain_local_pages()
> > > needs that guarantee.
> > >
> >
> > It should be by running on a workqueue handler bound to that CPU (queued
> > on wq->cpu_pwqs in __queue_work)
>
> Are you sure? The comment in kernel/workqueue.c says
> * While DISASSOCIATED, the cpu may be offline and all workers have
> * %WORKER_UNBOUND set and concurrency management disabled, and may
> * be executing on any CPU. The pool behaves as an unbound one.
>
> I might be misreadig but an unbound pool can be handled by workers which
> are not pinned on any cpu AFAIU.
Right. The unbind operation can set a mask that is any allowable CPU and
the final process_work is not done in a context that prevents
preemption.
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3b93879990fd..7af165d308c4 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2342,7 +2342,14 @@ void drain_local_pages(struct zone *zone)
static void drain_local_pages_wq(struct work_struct *work)
{
+ /*
+ * Ordinarily a drain operation is bound to a CPU but may be unbound
+ * after a CPU hotplug operation so it's necessary to disable
+ * preemption for the drain to stabilise the CPU ID.
+ */
+ preempt_disable();
drain_local_pages(NULL);
+ preempt_enable_no_resched();
}
/*
@@ -2377,13 +2384,10 @@ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone)
mutex_lock(&pcpu_drain_mutex);
}
- get_online_cpus();
-
/*
- * We don't care about racing with CPU hotplug event
- * as offline notification will cause the notified
- * cpu to drain that CPU pcps and on_each_cpu_mask
- * disables preemption as part of its processing
+ * We don't care about racing with CPU hotplug event as offline
+ * notification will cause the notified cpu to drain that CPU pcps
+ * and it is serialised against here via pcpu_drain_mutex.
*/
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp;
@@ -2418,7 +2422,6 @@ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone)
for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps)
flush_work(per_cpu_ptr(&pcpu_drain, cpu));
- put_online_cpus();
mutex_unlock(&pcpu_drain_mutex);
}
@@ -6711,7 +6714,16 @@ static int page_alloc_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
{
lru_add_drain_cpu(cpu);
+
+ /*
+ * A per-cpu drain via a workqueue from drain_all_pages can be
+ * rescheduled onto an unrelated CPU. That allows the hotplug
+ * operation and the drain to potentially race on the same
+ * CPU. Serialise hotplug versus drain using pcpu_drain_mutex
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&pcpu_drain_mutex);
drain_pages(cpu);
+ mutex_unlock(&pcpu_drain_mutex);
/*
* Spill the event counters of the dead processor
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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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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