[RESEND][PATCH 3/3] mem-hotplug: fix potential race while buildingzonelist for new populated zone
From: Haicheng Li
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 05:03:01 EST
Wu Fengguang wrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:09:31AM +0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Building a zonelist now has the potential side effect of changes to the
size of the zone?
Yeah, this sounds a bit hacky.
Can we have a global mutex that protects against size modification of
zonelists instead? And it could also serialize the pageset setup?
Good suggestion. We could make zone_pageset_mutex a global mutex and
take it in all the functions that call build_all_zonelists() --
currently only online_pages() and numa_zonelist_order_handler().
Yes, if we don't mind adding a global mutex, it's another way to fix the race.
This can equally fix the possible race:
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
(1) zone->present_pages += online_pages;
(2) build_all_zonelists();
(3) alloc_page();
(4) free_page();
(5) build_all_zonelists();
(6) __build_all_zonelists();
(7) zone->pageset = alloc_percpu();
In step (3,4), zone->pageset still points to boot_pageset, so bad
things may happen if 2+ nodes are in this state. Even if only 1 node
is accessing the boot_pageset, (3) may still consume too much memory
to fail the memory allocations in step (7).
Fengguang, this is a nice description of the possible race,
I'd include it into the changelog of this patch.
So how about the revised patch below?
---
From 0b1e776dc6c135b1d0c9a0bfb35daa9e9cfb046d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:53:28 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] mem-hotplug: fix potential setup_zone_pageset race
Add global mutex zonelists_pageset_mutex to fix the possible race:
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
(1) zone->present_pages += online_pages;
(2) build_all_zonelists();
(3) alloc_page();
(4) free_page();
(5) build_all_zonelists();
(6) __build_all_zonelists();
(7) zone->pageset = alloc_percpu();
In step (3,4), zone->pageset still points to boot_pageset, so bad
things may happen if 2+ nodes are in this state. Even if only 1 node
is accessing the boot_pageset, (3) may still consume too much memory
to fail the memory allocations in step (7).
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 11 +++--------
mm/page_alloc.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index dbbcd50..5103747 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
+extern struct mutex zonelists_pageset_mutex;
void get_zone_counts(unsigned long *active, unsigned long *inactive,
unsigned long *free);
void build_all_zonelists(void *data);
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index b564b6a..b32f3eb 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -389,11 +389,6 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
int nid;
int ret;
struct memory_notify arg;
- /*
- * mutex to protect zone->pageset when it's still shared
- * in onlined_pages()
- */
- static DEFINE_MUTEX(zone_pageset_mutex);
arg.start_pfn = pfn;
arg.nr_pages = nr_pages;
@@ -420,14 +415,14 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
* This means the page allocator ignores this zone.
* So, zonelist must be updated after online.
*/
- mutex_lock(&zone_pageset_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&zonelists_pageset_mutex);
if (!populated_zone(zone))
need_zonelists_rebuild = 1;
ret = walk_system_ram_range(pfn, nr_pages, &onlined_pages,
online_pages_range);
if (ret) {
- mutex_unlock(&zone_pageset_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&zonelists_pageset_mutex);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "online_pages %lx at %lx failed\n",
nr_pages, pfn);
memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE, &arg);
@@ -441,7 +436,7 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
else
zone_pcp_update(zone);
- mutex_unlock(&zone_pageset_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&zonelists_pageset_mutex);
setup_per_zone_wmarks();
calculate_zone_inactive_ratio(zone);
if (onlined_pages) {
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 72c1211..602c4b7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2434,8 +2434,11 @@ int numa_zonelist_order_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
strncpy((char*)table->data, saved_string,
NUMA_ZONELIST_ORDER_LEN);
user_zonelist_order = oldval;
- } else if (oldval != user_zonelist_order)
+ } else if (oldval != user_zonelist_order) {
+ mutex_lock(&zonelists_pageset_mutex);
build_all_zonelists(NULL);
+ mutex_unlock(&zonelists_pageset_mutex);
+ }
}
out:
mutex_unlock(&zl_order_mutex);
@@ -2778,6 +2781,12 @@ static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu_pageset *p, unsigned long batch);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_pageset, boot_pageset);
static void setup_zone_pageset(struct zone *zone);
+/*
+ * Global mutex to protect size modification of zonelists
+ * as well as to serialize pageset setup for a new populated zone.
+ */
+DEFINE_MUTEX(zonelists_pageset_mutex);
+
/* return values int ....just for stop_machine() */
static __init_refok int __build_all_zonelists(void *data)
{
@@ -2821,6 +2830,10 @@ static __init_refok int __build_all_zonelists(void *data)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Called with zonelists_pageset_mutex held always
+ * unless system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING.
+ */
void build_all_zonelists(void *data)
{
set_zonelist_order();
--
1.5.6.1
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