Re: [PATCH v2] mm/hugetlb: defer free_huge_page() to a workqueue

[Waiman Long]

On 12/12/19 3:52 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 12/12/19 2:22 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> On 12/12/19 11:04 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>> There have been deadlock reports[1, 2] where put_page is called
>>> from softirq context and this causes trouble with the hugetlb_lock,
>>> as well as potentially the subpool lock.
>>>
>>> For such an unlikely scenario, lets not add irq dancing overhead
>>> to the lock+unlock operations, which could incur in expensive
>>> instruction dependencies, particularly when considering hard-irq
>>> safety. For example PUSHF+POPF on x86.
>>>
>>> Instead, just use a workqueue and do the free_huge_page() in regular
>>> task context.
>>>
>>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191211194615.18502-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx/
>>> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180905112341.21355-1-aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
>> Thank you Davidlohr.
>>
>> The patch does seem fairly simple and straight forward.  I need to brush up
>> on my workqueue knowledge to provide a full review.
>>
>> Longman,
>> Do you have a test to reproduce the issue?  If so, can you try running with
>> this patch.
> Yes, I do have a test that can reproduce the issue. I will run it with
> the patch and report the status tomorrow.

I don't think Davidlohr's patch is ready for prime time yet. So I will
wait until a better version is available.

Cheers,
Longman