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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 22:16:41 -0700
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
To: "Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)" <vbabka@...nel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] memcg: simple cleanup of stats update functions
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 06:34:24PM GMT, Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> On 5/27/24 5:22 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > On 2024-04-20 16:25:05 [-0700], Shakeel Butt wrote:
> >> mod_memcg_lruvec_state() is never called from outside of memcontrol.c
> >> and with always irq disabled. So, replace it with the irq disabled
> >> version and add an assert that irq is disabled in the caller.
> >
> > unless PREEMPT_RT is enabled. In that case IRQs are not disabled as part
> > of local_lock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, …) leading to:
Sorry about that and thanks for the report.
>
> But then the "interrupts are handled by a kernel thread that can sleep" part
> of RT also means it's ok to just have the stock_lock taken with no
> interrupts disabled as no actual raw interrupt handler will interrupt the
> holder and deadlock, right?
>
Thanks Vlastimil for jolting my memory on RT reasoning.
> > | ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > | WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/memcontrol.c:3150 __mod_objcg_mlstate+0xc2/0x110
> > | CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-rt0+ #17
> > | Call Trace:
> > | <TASK>
> > | mod_objcg_state+0x2b3/0x320
> > | __memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook+0x13c/0x340
> > | kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x2bd/0x2e0
> > | alloc_inode+0x59/0xc0
> > | iget_locked+0xf0/0x290
> >
> > suggestions?
>
> So in that case the appropriate thing would be to replace the assert with
> lockdep_assert_held(&memcg_stock.stock_lock);
> ?
>
> It seems all the code paths leading here have that one.
>
Yeah this seems right and reasonable. Should I send a fix or you want to
send it?
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