linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/page_alloc: Use write_seqlock_irqsave() instead write_seqlock() + local_irq

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Date:   Fri, 23 Jun 2023 22:15:17 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm/page_alloc: Use write_seqlock_irqsave() instead
 write_seqlock() + local_irq_save().

__build_all_zonelists() acquires zonelist_update_seq by first disabling
interrupts via local_irq_save() and then acquiring the seqlock with
write_seqlock(). This is troublesome and leads to problems on
PREEMPT_RT. The problem is that the inner spinlock_t becomes a sleeping
lock on PREEMPT_RT and must not be acquired with disabled interrupts.

The API provides write_seqlock_irqsave() which does the right thing in
one step.
printk_deferred_enter() has to be invoked in non-migrate-able context to
ensure that deferred printing is enabled and disabled on the same CPU.
This is the case after zonelist_update_seq has been acquired.

There was discussion on the first submission that the order should be:
	local_irq_disable();
	printk_deferred_enter();
	write_seqlock();

to avoid pitfalls like having an unaccounted printk() coming from
write_seqlock_irqsave() before printk_deferred_enter() is invoked. The
only origin of such a printk() can be a lockdep splat because the
lockdep annotation happens after the sequence count is incremented.
This is exceptional and subject to change.

It was also pointed that PREEMPT_RT can be affected by the printk
problem since its write_seqlock_irqsave() does not really disable
interrupts. This isn't the case because PREEMPT_RT's printk
implementation differs from the mainline implementation in two important
aspects:
- Printing happens in a dedicated threads and not at during the
  invocation of printk().
- In emergency cases where synchronous printing is used, a different
  driver is used which does not use tty_port::lock.

Acquire zonelist_update_seq with write_seqlock_irqsave() and then defer
printk output.

Fixes: 1007843a91909 ("mm/page_alloc: fix potential deadlock on zonelist_update_seq seqlock")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
v2…v3
  - Update comment as per Michal's suggestion.

v1…v2:
  - Improve commit description

 mm/page_alloc.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 47421bedc12b7..440e9af67b48d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5808,19 +5808,17 @@ static void __build_all_zonelists(void *data)
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/*
-	 * Explicitly disable this CPU's interrupts before taking seqlock
-	 * to prevent any IRQ handler from calling into the page allocator
-	 * (e.g. GFP_ATOMIC) that could hit zonelist_iter_begin and livelock.
+	 * The zonelist_update_seq must be acquired with irqsave because the
+	 * reader can be invoked from IRQ with GFP_ATOMIC.
 	 */
-	local_irq_save(flags);
+	write_seqlock_irqsave(&zonelist_update_seq, flags);
 	/*
-	 * Explicitly disable this CPU's synchronous printk() before taking
-	 * seqlock to prevent any printk() from trying to hold port->lock, for
+	 * Also disable synchronous printk() to prevent any printk() from
+	 * trying to hold port->lock, for
 	 * tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer() on other CPU might be
 	 * calling kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN) with port->lock held.
 	 */
 	printk_deferred_enter();
-	write_seqlock(&zonelist_update_seq);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 	memset(node_load, 0, sizeof(node_load));
@@ -5857,9 +5855,8 @@ static void __build_all_zonelists(void *data)
 #endif
 	}
 
-	write_sequnlock(&zonelist_update_seq);
 	printk_deferred_exit();
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&zonelist_update_seq, flags);
 }
 
 static noinline void __init
-- 
2.40.1