linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm, slub: ensure irqs are enabled for kmemcheck

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Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:46:33 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, JoonSoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Rus <rus@...nxsoft.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm, slub: ensure irqs are enabled for kmemcheck

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 03:36 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> kmemcheck_alloc_shadow() requires irqs to be enabled, so wait to disable
> them until after its called for __GFP_WAIT allocations.
> 
> This fixes a warning for such allocations:
> 
> 	WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2739 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x14e/0x1c0()
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org [3.1+]
> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> ---
>  mm/slub.c |   13 ++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -1314,13 +1314,7 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
>  			stat(s, ORDER_FALLBACK);
>  	}
>  
> -	if (flags & __GFP_WAIT)
> -		local_irq_disable();
> -
> -	if (!page)
> -		return NULL;
> -
> -	if (kmemcheck_enabled
> +	if (page && kmemcheck_enabled

One micro-optimization nit...

If kmemcheck_enabled is mostly false, and page is mostly true, wouldn't
it be better to swap the two?

	if (kmemcheck_enabled && page

Then the first check would just short-circuit out and we don't do the
double check.

Otherwise it looks good.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve

>  		&& !(s->flags & (SLAB_NOTRACK | DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS))) {
>  		int pages = 1 << oo_order(oo);
>  
> @@ -1336,6 +1330,11 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
>  			kmemcheck_mark_unallocated_pages(page, pages);
>  	}
>  
> +	if (flags & __GFP_WAIT)
> +		local_irq_disable();
> +	if (!page)
> +		return NULL;
> +
>  	page->objects = oo_objects(oo);
>  	mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page),
>  		(s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT) ?


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