[PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Add lockdep assertion for pageblock type change

From: Brendan Jackman
Date: Thu Feb 27 2025 - 11:24:46 EST


Since the migratetype hygiene patches [0], the locking here is
a bit more formalised, so write it down with an assert.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240320180429.678181-3-hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 1 +
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 5 +++++
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index eaac5ae8c05c8ee2f2868d5bc1b04d1f68235b3f..ff9511d9b9e6f775feeb4f897754878ac4c8cdb0 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ void put_online_mems(void);

void mem_hotplug_begin(void);
void mem_hotplug_done(void);
+bool in_mem_hotplug(void);

/* See kswapd_is_running() */
static inline void pgdat_kswapd_lock(pg_data_t *pgdat)
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 16cf9e17077e359b98a69dc4bca48f4575b9a28c..2b9d1a6267c0872c433fafe8684dd4e2aa821f5f 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -267,6 +267,11 @@ void mem_hotplug_done(void)
cpus_read_unlock();
}

+bool in_mem_hotplug(void)
+{
+ return percpu_is_write_locked(&mem_hotplug_lock);
+}
+
u64 max_mem_size = U64_MAX;

/* add this memory to iomem resource */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 299c9f10bbcd2aa1d35ac6eb5131a2471da825d5..e0516d70835e20e54ff8e43f3aa884c7e36d929a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -417,6 +417,10 @@ void set_pfnblock_flags_mask(struct page *page, unsigned long flags,

void set_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page, int migratetype)
{
+ lockdep_assert_once(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING ||
+ in_mem_hotplug() ||
+ lockdep_is_held(&page_zone(page)->lock));
+
if (unlikely(page_group_by_mobility_disabled &&
migratetype < MIGRATE_PCPTYPES))
migratetype = MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE;

---
base-commit: d58172d128acbafa2295aa17cc96e28260da9a86
change-id: 20250227-pageblock-lockdep-9628c48d7e08

Best regards,
--
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>