mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages
authorPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Thu, 5 Apr 2018 23:22:27 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Apr 2018 04:36:24 +0000 (21:36 -0700)
commit3a2d7fa8a3d5ae740bd0c21d933acc6220857ed0
tree30eb570bb5050346cb4f5315743faebcdb6e389c
parent8e7a0c9100cade3bdbf851206b892b6f98eb39c9
mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages

Vlastimil Babka reported about a window issue during which when deferred
pages are initialized, and the current version of on-demand
initialization is finished, allocations may fail.  While this is highly
unlikely scenario, since this kind of allocation request must be large,
and must come from interrupt handler, we still want to cover it.

We solve this by initializing deferred pages with interrupts disabled,
and holding node_size_lock spin lock while pages in the node are being
initialized.  The on-demand deferred page initialization that comes
later will use the same lock, and thus synchronize with
deferred_init_memmap().

It is unlikely for threads that initialize deferred pages to be
interrupted.  They run soon after smp_init(), but before modules are
initialized, and long before user space programs.  This is why there is
no adverse effect of having these threads running with interrupts
disabled.

[pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: v6]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313182355.17669-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309220807.24961-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/page_alloc.c