[PATCH 7/9] mm/page_alloc: Explicitly acquire the zone lock in __free_pages_ok

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Apr 22 2021 - 07:16:09 EST


__free_pages_ok() disables IRQs before calling a common helper
free_one_page() that acquires the zone lock. This is not safe according
to Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst and in this context, IRQ disabling
is not protecting a per_cpu_pages structure either or a local_lock would
be used.

This patch explicitly acquires the lock with spin_lock_irqsave instead of
relying on a helper. This removes the last instance of local_irq_save()
in page_alloc.c.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 295624fe293b..c6e8da942905 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1547,21 +1547,21 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
unsigned long flags;
int migratetype;
unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+ struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);

if (!free_pages_prepare(page, order, true))
return;

migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);

- /*
- * TODO FIX: Disable IRQs before acquiring IRQ-safe zone->lock
- * and protect vmstat updates.
- */
- local_irq_save(flags);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
__count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
- free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype,
- fpi_flags);
- local_irq_restore(flags);
+ if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone) ||
+ is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
+ migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
+ }
+ __free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, fpi_flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
}

void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
--
2.26.2