linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RT 26/39] scheduling while atomic in cgroup code

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 09:37:02 +0100
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, stable-rt@...r.kernel.org,
	Nikita Yushchenko <nyushchenko@....rtsoft.ru>,
	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 26/39] scheduling while atomic in cgroup code

On 03/17/2015 09:10 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [[PATCH RT 26/39] scheduling while atomic in cgroup code] On 12/03/2015 (Thu 15:13) Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
>> 3.14.34-rt32-rc1 stable review patch.
>> If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> From: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
>>
>> mm, memcg: make refill_stock() use get_cpu_light()
> 
> This looks like only 1/2 of Mike's original patch:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/21/11 
> 
> I suspect that is because 3.18 could only use 1/2 of it, and based on
> the SOB lines, this is backported from 3.18.

no. I didn't take the upper chunk because get_cpu_var() does only a
preempt_disable() and in that section there is not point of preemption
or a lock in involved. So it is fine the way it is.
The suggest change does a migrate_disable() which is a little more code.

The lower part (the chunk I applied) invokes drain_stock() and that is
where the sleeping-while-atomic warning came from.

So is the upper half really required and if so, why?

> The other half applies to 3.14 -- testing in progress; not sure about
> the 3.10-rt and earlier....
> 
> P.

Sebastian

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