linux-kernel - [PATCH V2] mm: slub: fix flush_cpu_slab()/__free

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Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:11:40 +0200
From:   Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@...hat.com>
To:     vbabka@...e.cz
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, rientjes@...gle.com, penberg@...nel.org,
        iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bigeasy@...utronix.de
Subject: [PATCH V2] mm: slub: fix flush_cpu_slab()/__free_slab() invocations in task context.

Commit 5a836bf6b09f ("mm: slub: move flush_cpu_slab() invocations
__free_slab() invocations out of IRQ context") moved all flush_cpu_slab()
invocations to the global workqueue to avoid a problem related
with deactivate_slab()/__free_slab() being called from an IRQ context
on PREEMPT_RT kernels.

When the flush_all_cpu_locked() function is called from a task context
it may happen that a workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set ends up
flushing the global workqueue, this will cause a dependency issue.

 workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM nvme-delete-wq:nvme_delete_ctrl_work [nvme_core]
   is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:flush_cpu_slab
 WARNING: CPU: 37 PID: 410 at kernel/workqueue.c:2637
   check_flush_dependency+0x10a/0x120
 Workqueue: nvme-delete-wq nvme_delete_ctrl_work [nvme_core]
 RIP: 0010:check_flush_dependency+0x10a/0x120[  453.262125] Call Trace:
 __flush_work.isra.0+0xbf/0x220
 ? __queue_work+0x1dc/0x420
 flush_all_cpus_locked+0xfb/0x120
 __kmem_cache_shutdown+0x2b/0x320
 kmem_cache_destroy+0x49/0x100
 bioset_exit+0x143/0x190
 blk_release_queue+0xb9/0x100
 kobject_cleanup+0x37/0x130
 nvme_fc_ctrl_free+0xc6/0x150 [nvme_fc]
 nvme_free_ctrl+0x1ac/0x2b0 [nvme_core]

Fix this bug by creating a workqueue for the flush operation with
the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM bit set.

v2: Create a workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
    instead of trying to revert the changes.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@...hat.com>
---
 mm/slub.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 862dbd9af4f5..cdb8011884d0 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ static inline void stat(const struct kmem_cache *s, enum stat_item si)
  */
 static nodemask_t slab_nodes;

+/*
+ * Workqueue used for flush_cpu_slab().
+ */
+static struct workqueue_struct *flushwq;
+
 /********************************************************************
  * 			Core slab cache functions
  *******************************************************************/
@@ -2730,7 +2735,7 @@ static void flush_all_cpus_locked(struct kmem_cache *s)
 		INIT_WORK(&sfw->work, flush_cpu_slab);
 		sfw->skip = false;
 		sfw->s = s;
-		schedule_work_on(cpu, &sfw->work);
+		queue_work_on(cpu, flushwq, &sfw->work);
 	}

 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -4858,6 +4863,8 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init(void)

 void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void)
 {
+	flushwq = create_workqueue("slub_flushwq");
+	BUG_ON(!flushwq);
 }

 struct kmem_cache *
-- 
2.31.1