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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:42:35 -0800
From:   Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, dave.hansen@...el.com,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, aaron.lu@...el.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [Update][PATCH v5 7/9] mm/swap: Add cache for swap slots
 allocation

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:55:47AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Hi, Andrew,
> 
> This update patch is to fix the preemption warning raised by Michal
> Hocko.  raw_cpu_ptr() is used to replace this_cpu_ptr() and comments are
> added for why it is used.
> 

Andrew & Michal,

Here's a fix that's a follow on patch instead of an updated patch
as Michal has suggested.  I've updated the comments a bit to make it
clearer.

Thanks.

Tim

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:57:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/swap: Use raw_cpu_ptr over this_cpu_ptr for swap slots
 access
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@...el.com>, dave.hansen@...el.com, ak@...ux.intel.com, aaron.lu@...el.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, Kirill A . Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>

From: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>

The usage of this_cpu_ptr in get_swap_page causes a bug warning
as it is used in pre-emptible code.

[   57.812314] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kswapd0/527
[   57.814360] caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x19
[   57.815237] CPU: 1 PID: 527 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G        W 4.9.0-mmotm-00135-g4e9a9895ebef #1042
[   57.816019] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.1-1 04/01/2014
[   57.816019]  ffffc900001939c0 ffffffff81329c60 0000000000000001 ffffffff81a0ce06
[   57.816019]  ffffc900001939f0 ffffffff81343c2a 00000000000137a0 ffffea0000dfd2a0
[   57.816019]  ffff88003c49a700 ffffc90000193b10 ffffc90000193a00 ffffffff81343c53
[   57.816019] Call Trace:
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff81329c60>] dump_stack+0x68/0x92
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff81343c2a>] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xe0
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff81343c53>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x19
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff8115f06f>] get_swap_page+0x19/0x183
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff8114e01d>] shmem_writepage+0xce/0x38c
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff81148916>] shrink_page_list+0x81f/0xdbf
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff81149652>] shrink_inactive_list+0x2ab/0x594
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff8114a22f>] shrink_node_memcg+0x4c7/0x673
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff8114a49f>] shrink_node+0xc4/0x282
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff8114a49f>] ? shrink_node+0xc4/0x282
[   57.816019]  [<ffffffff8114b8cb>] kswapd+0x656/0x834

Logic wise, We do allow pre-emption as per cpu ptr cache->slots is
protected by the mutex cache->alloc_lock.  We switch the
inappropriately used this_cpu_ptr to raw_cpu_ptr for per cpu ptr
access of cache->slots.

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
---
 mm/swap_slots.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap_slots.c b/mm/swap_slots.c
index 8cf941e..9b5bc86 100644
--- a/mm/swap_slots.c
+++ b/mm/swap_slots.c
@@ -303,7 +303,16 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void)
 	swp_entry_t entry, *pentry;
 	struct swap_slots_cache *cache;
 
-	cache = this_cpu_ptr(&swp_slots);
+	/*
+	 * Preemption is allowed here, because we may sleep
+	 * in refill_swap_slots_cache().  But it is safe, because
+	 * accesses to the per-CPU data structure are protected by the
+	 * mutex cache->alloc_lock.
+	 *
+	 * The alloc path here does not touch cache->slots_ret
+	 * so cache->free_lock is not taken.
+	 */
+	cache = raw_cpu_ptr(&swp_slots);
 
 	entry.val = 0;
 	if (check_cache_active()) {
-- 
2.5.5


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