linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "mm/vunmap: add cond_resched() in vunmap_pmd

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Date:   Thu,  5 Nov 2020 09:02:49 -0800
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Harish Sriram <harish@...ux.ibm.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "mm/vunmap: add cond_resched() in vunmap_pmd_range"

This reverts commit e47110e90584a22e9980510b00d0dfad3a83354e.

While I was doing zram testing, I found sometimes decompression failed
since the compression buffer was corrupted. With investigation,
I found below commit calls cond_resched unconditionally so it could
make a problem in atomic context if the task is reschedule.

Revert the original commit for now.

[   55.109012] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/vmalloc.c:108^M
[   55.110774] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 946, name: memhog^M
[   55.111973] 3 locks held by memhog/946:^M
[   55.112807]  #0: ffff9d01d4b193e8 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{4:4}, at: __mm_populate+0x103/0x160^M
[   55.114151]  #1: ffffffffa3d53de0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0xa98/0x1160^M
[   55.115848]  #2: ffff9d01d56b8110 (&zspage->lock){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: zs_map_object+0x8e/0x1f0^M
[   55.118947] CPU: 0 PID: 946 Comm: memhog Not tainted 5.9.3-00011-gc5bfc0287345-dirty #316^M
[   55.121265] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1 04/01/2014^M
[   55.122540] Call Trace:^M
[   55.122974]  dump_stack+0x8b/0xb8^M
[   55.123588]  ___might_sleep.cold+0xb6/0xc6^M
[   55.124328]  unmap_kernel_range_noflush+0x2eb/0x350^M
[   55.125198]  unmap_kernel_range+0x14/0x30^M
[   55.125920]  zs_unmap_object+0xd5/0xe0^M
[   55.126604]  zram_bvec_rw.isra.0+0x38c/0x8e0^M
[   55.127462]  zram_rw_page+0x90/0x101^M
[   55.128199]  bdev_write_page+0x92/0xe0^M
[   55.128957]  ? swap_slot_free_notify+0xb0/0xb0^M
[   55.129841]  __swap_writepage+0x94/0x4a0^M
[   55.130636]  ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x4b/0xa0^M
[   55.131462]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x30^M
[   55.132261]  ? page_swapcount+0x6c/0x90^M
[   55.133038]  pageout+0xe3/0x3a0^M
[   55.133702]  shrink_page_list+0xb94/0xd60^M
[   55.134626]  shrink_inactive_list+0x158/0x460^M

Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Harish Sriram <harish@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 6ae491a8b210..a4f1d39ce710 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -102,8 +102,6 @@ static void vunmap_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
 			continue;
 		vunmap_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, mask);
-
-		cond_resched();
 	} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
 }
 
-- 
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