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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:28:55 -0800
From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-git20 -- BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
context at include/asm/uaccess_32.h:449
On 10.02.2008 [13:25:28 -0800], Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> On 09.02.2008 [16:26:43 -0800], Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 14:03:28 -0500 "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Command run:
> > > find /proc | xargs tail
> > >
> > > [ 2710.028219] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > > include/asm/uaccess_32.h:449
> > > [ 2710.028229] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > > [ 2710.028232] 1 lock held by head/9380:
> > > [ 2710.028234] #0: (hugetlb_lock){--..}, at: [<c016734f>]
> > > hugetlb_overcommit_handler+0x16/0x3e
> > > [ 2710.028248] Pid: 9380, comm: head Not tainted 2.6.24-git20 #5
> > > [ 2710.028260] [<c0118749>] __might_sleep+0xc2/0xc9
> > > [ 2710.028267] [<c021cb39>] copy_to_user+0x32/0x49
> > > [ 2710.028277] [<c0123f6a>] do_proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x1df/0x27f
> > > [ 2710.028289] [<c012403c>] proc_doulongvec_minmax+0x15/0x17
> > > [ 2710.028295] [<c0167363>] hugetlb_overcommit_handler+0x2a/0x3e
> > > [ 2710.028303] [<c01a1462>] proc_sys_read+0x5e/0x7b
> > > [ 2710.028311] [<c01a1404>] ? proc_sys_read+0x0/0x7b
> > > [ 2710.028317] [<c0170d7a>] vfs_read+0x8a/0x106
> > > [ 2710.028325] [<c017116f>] sys_read+0x3b/0x60
> > > [ 2710.028331] [<c0103e32>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5
> >
> > Ugh, how did I let that one through?
>
> Don't blame yourself, blame me.
>
> > Guys, how often mut it be said?
>
> Hopefully this is often enough.
>
> > PLEASE always test all code with all kernel deubg options enabled.
>
> Yep, 100% my error. Am testing a fix now, will post soon.
While I'm not removing the brown paper bag from my head, I was unable to
reproduce the BUG on my 2-way x86_64 at home. I then noticed Miles'
system is x86_32. After wrangling with our testing grid, I got a 32-bit
system booting 2.6.24-git22. Didn't reproduce there either, with
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y. What am I doing wrong? I think the
following is the right fix, but have not see the original BUG to know
for sure. I did the `find /proc | xargs tail`, but shouldn't I hit the
BUG just simply `cat`'ing or `echo`ing into the file?
Miles, could you test the following?
Thanks,
Nish
hugetlb: fix overcommit locking
proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we
can't hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the
sysctl result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to
update nr_overcommit_huge_pages.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 7ca198b..addca4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ int hugetlb_reserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long from, long to);
void hugetlb_unreserve_pages(struct inode *inode, long offset, long freed);
extern unsigned long max_huge_pages;
+extern unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
-extern unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index d41ef6b..2024632 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -978,8 +978,8 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
{
.ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
.procname = "nr_overcommit_hugepages",
- .data = &nr_overcommit_huge_pages,
- .maxlen = sizeof(nr_overcommit_huge_pages),
+ .data = &sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &hugetlb_overcommit_handler,
},
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index d9a3803..cb1b3a7 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@
const unsigned long hugetlb_zero = 0, hugetlb_infinity = ~0UL;
static unsigned long nr_huge_pages, free_huge_pages, resv_huge_pages;
static unsigned long surplus_huge_pages;
+static unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
unsigned long max_huge_pages;
+unsigned long sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
static struct list_head hugepage_freelists[MAX_NUMNODES];
static unsigned int nr_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static unsigned int free_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static unsigned int surplus_huge_pages_node[MAX_NUMNODES];
static gfp_t htlb_alloc_mask = GFP_HIGHUSER;
unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
-unsigned long nr_overcommit_huge_pages;
static int hugetlb_next_nid;
/*
@@ -609,8 +610,9 @@ int hugetlb_overcommit_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
struct file *file, void __user *buffer,
size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
- spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
proc_doulongvec_minmax(table, write, file, buffer, length, ppos);
+ spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
+ nr_overcommit_huge_pages = sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages;
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
return 0;
}
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