[PATCH RT] Revert "memcontrol: Prevent scheduling while atomic in cgroup code"

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 22 2017 - 07:31:27 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The commit "memcontrol: Prevent scheduling while atomic in cgroup code"
fixed this issue:

refill_stock()
get_cpu_var()
drain_stock()
res_counter_uncharge()
res_counter_uncharge_until()
spin_lock() <== boom

But commit 3e32cb2e0a12b ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters") replaced
the calls to res_counter_uncharge() in drain_stock() to the lockless
function page_counter_uncharge(). There is no more spin lock there and no
more reason to have that local lock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 13 ++++++-------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 25e0fd082f13..27549bf47139 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1723,7 +1723,6 @@ struct memcg_stock_pcp {
#define FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE 0
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock);
-static DEFINE_LOCAL_IRQ_LOCK(memcg_stock_ll);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(percpu_charge_mutex);

/**
@@ -1746,7 +1745,7 @@ static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
if (nr_pages > CHARGE_BATCH)
return ret;

- local_lock_irqsave(memcg_stock_ll, flags);
+ local_irq_save(flags);

stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
if (memcg == stock->cached && stock->nr_pages >= nr_pages) {
@@ -1754,7 +1753,7 @@ static bool consume_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
ret = true;
}

- local_unlock_irqrestore(memcg_stock_ll, flags);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);

return ret;
}
@@ -1785,13 +1784,13 @@ static void drain_local_stock(struct work_struct *dummy)
* The only protection from memory hotplug vs. drain_stock races is
* that we always operate on local CPU stock here with IRQ disabled
*/
- local_lock_irqsave(memcg_stock_ll, flags);
+ local_irq_save(flags);

stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
drain_stock(stock);
clear_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &stock->flags);

- local_unlock_irqrestore(memcg_stock_ll, flags);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}

/*
@@ -1803,7 +1802,7 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;
unsigned long flags;

- local_lock_irqsave(memcg_stock_ll, flags);
+ local_irq_save(flags);

stock = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock);
if (stock->cached != memcg) { /* reset if necessary */
@@ -1815,7 +1814,7 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
if (stock->nr_pages > CHARGE_BATCH)
drain_stock(stock);

- local_unlock_irqrestore(memcg_stock_ll, flags);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}

/*
--
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