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Message-ID: <156957184244.9866.6327974056677601202.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 08:10:42 -0000
From: "tip-bot2 for Mathieu Desnoyers" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
"Russell King - ARM Linux admin" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: sched/urgent] sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on
memory allocation failure
The following commit has been merged into the sched/urgent branch of tip:
Commit-ID: c172e0a3e8e65a4c6fffec5bc4d6de08d6f894f7
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/c172e0a3e8e65a4c6fffec5bc4d6de08d6f894f7
Author: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:37:05 -04:00
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:42:31 +02:00
sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on memory allocation failure
Remove the IPI fallback code from membarrier to deal with very
infrequent cpumask memory allocation failure. Use GFP_KERNEL rather
than GFP_NOWAIT, and relax the blocking guarantees for the expedited
membarrier system call commands, allowing it to block if waiting for
memory to be made available.
In addition, now -ENOMEM can be returned to user-space if the cpumask
memory allocation fails.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919173705.2181-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 63 ++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index fced54a..a39bed2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ void membarrier_exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
{
int cpu;
- bool fallback = false;
cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
@@ -78,15 +77,8 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
*/
smp_mb(); /* system call entry is not a mb. */
- /*
- * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
- * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
- * implementation.
- */
- if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT)) {
- /* Fallback for OOM. */
- fallback = true;
- }
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
cpus_read_lock();
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -117,18 +109,15 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
continue;
- if (!fallback)
- __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
- else
- smp_call_function_single(cpu, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
+ __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (!fallback) {
- preempt_disable();
- smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
- preempt_enable();
- free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
- }
+
+ preempt_disable();
+ smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
+ preempt_enable();
+
+ free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
cpus_read_unlock();
/*
@@ -143,7 +132,6 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
{
int cpu;
- bool fallback = false;
cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
@@ -168,15 +156,8 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
*/
smp_mb(); /* system call entry is not a mb. */
- /*
- * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
- * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
- * implementation.
- */
- if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT)) {
- /* Fallback for OOM. */
- fallback = true;
- }
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
cpus_read_lock();
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -195,20 +176,16 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
continue;
rcu_read_lock();
p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr);
- if (p && p->mm == mm) {
- if (!fallback)
- __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
- else
- smp_call_function_single(cpu, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
- }
+ if (p && p->mm == mm)
+ __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (!fallback) {
- preempt_disable();
- smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
- preempt_enable();
- free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
- }
+
+ preempt_disable();
+ smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
+ preempt_enable();
+
+ free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
cpus_read_unlock();
/*
@@ -264,7 +241,7 @@ static int sync_runqueues_membarrier_state(struct mm_struct *mm)
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
struct task_struct *p;
- p = rcu_dereference(&rq->curr);
+ p = rcu_dereference(rq->curr);
if (p && p->mm == mm)
__cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
}
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