Re: kswapd using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible code

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Wed Mar 19 2014 - 21:01:39 EST


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 02:22:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:53:30 +0300 Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello gentlemen,
> >
> > Commit 589a606f9539663f162e4a110d117527833b58a4 ("percpu: add preemption
> > checks to __this_cpu ops") added preempt check to used in __count_vm_events()
> > __this_cpu ops, causing the following kswapd warning:
> >
> > BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: kswapd0/56
> > caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
> > Call Trace:
> > [<ffffffff813b8d4d>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
> > [<ffffffff8121366f>] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xdd
> > [<ffffffff812136bb>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
> > [<ffffffff810f622e>] inode_lru_isolate+0xed/0x197
> > [<ffffffff810be43c>] list_lru_walk_node+0x7b/0x14c
> > [<ffffffff810f6141>] ? iput+0x131/0x131
> > [<ffffffff810f681f>] prune_icache_sb+0x35/0x4c
> > [<ffffffff810e3951>] super_cache_scan+0xe3/0x143
> > [<ffffffff810b1301>] shrink_slab_node+0x103/0x16f
> > [<ffffffff810b19fd>] shrink_slab+0x75/0xe4
> > [<ffffffff810b3f3d>] balance_pgdat+0x2fa/0x47f
> > [<ffffffff810b4395>] kswapd+0x2d3/0x2fd
> > [<ffffffff81068049>] ? __wake_up_sync+0xd/0xd
> > [<ffffffff810b40c2>] ? balance_pgdat+0x47f/0x47f
> > [<ffffffff81051e75>] kthread+0xd6/0xde
> > [<ffffffff81051d9f>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x162/0x162
> > [<ffffffff813be5bc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
> > [<ffffffff81051d9f>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x162/0x162
> >
> >
> > list_lru_walk_node() seems to be the only place where __count_vm_events()
> > called with preemption enabled. remaining __count_vm_events() and
> > __count_vm_event() calls are done with preemption disabled (unless I
> > overlooked something).
>
> Christoph caught one. How does this look?
>
>
>
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: fs/inode.c:inode_lru_isolate(): use atomic count_vm_events()
>
> "percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops" added preempt check to
> used in __count_vm_events() __this_cpu ops, causing the following kswapd
> warning:
>
> BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: kswapd0/56
> caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff813b8d4d>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
> [<ffffffff8121366f>] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xdd
> [<ffffffff812136bb>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
> [<ffffffff810f622e>] inode_lru_isolate+0xed/0x197
> [<ffffffff810be43c>] list_lru_walk_node+0x7b/0x14c
> [<ffffffff810f6141>] ? iput+0x131/0x131
> [<ffffffff810f681f>] prune_icache_sb+0x35/0x4c
>
> Switch from __count_vm_events() to the preempt-safe count_vm_events().
>
> Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> fs/inode.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN fs/inode.c~fs-inodec-inode_lru_isolate-use-atomic-count_vm_events fs/inode.c
> --- a/fs/inode.c~fs-inodec-inode_lru_isolate-use-atomic-count_vm_events
> +++ a/fs/inode.c
> @@ -722,9 +722,9 @@ inode_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item
> unsigned long reap;
> reap = invalidate_mapping_pages(&inode->i_data, 0, -1);
> if (current_is_kswapd())
> - __count_vm_events(KSWAPD_INODESTEAL, reap);
> + count_vm_events(KSWAPD_INODESTEAL, reap);
> else
> - __count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap);
> + count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap);
> if (current->reclaim_state)
> current->reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab += reap;
> }

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Dave.
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