linux-kernel - Re: mm: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected in split_huge_page_to

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:48:41 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>, jmarchan@...hat.com,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@...il.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	"linux-mm\@kvack.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: mm: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected in
 split_huge_page_to_list

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:15:32 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> >
> > I think this should fix the issue:
> >
> > From 10859758dadfa249616870f63c1636ec9857c501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:28:12 +0300
> > Subject: [PATCH] thp: fix interrupt unsafe locking in split_huge_page()
> >
> > split_queue_lock can be taken from interrupt context in some cases, but
> > I forgot to convert locking in split_huge_page() to interrupt-safe
> > primitives.
> >
> > Let's fix this.
> 
> Can you add the stack trace from the problem reported to the commit
> message ?

I have already done this.