linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix possible recursive locking detected warning

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Message-ID: <ad3dcd0c-4d99-54ae-1f48-77dbbe4a7f44@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:08:32 +0800
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To: Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix possible recursive locking detected
 warning

On 2024/7/11 16:27, Muchun Song wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 11, 2024, at 15:10, Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com> wrote:
>>
>> When tries to demote 1G hugetlb folios, a lockdep warning is observed:
>>
>> ============================================
>> WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
>> 6.10.0-rc6-00452-ga4d0275fa660-dirty #79 Not tainted
>> --------------------------------------------
>> bash/710 is trying to acquire lock:
>> ffffffff8f0a7850 (&h->resize_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: demote_store+0x244/0x460
>>
>> but task is already holding lock:
>> ffffffff8f0a6f48 (&h->resize_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: demote_store+0xae/0x460
>>
>> other info that might help us debug this:
>> Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>>
>>       CPU0
>>       ----
>>  lock(&h->resize_lock);
>>  lock(&h->resize_lock);
>>
>> *** DEADLOCK ***
>>
>> May be due to missing lock nesting notation
>>
>> 4 locks held by bash/710:
>> #0: ffff8f118439c3f0 (sb_writers#5){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
>> #1: ffff8f11893b9e88 (&of->mutex#2){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xf8/0x1d0
>> #2: ffff8f1183dc4428 (kn->active#98){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x100/0x1d0
>> #3: ffffffff8f0a6f48 (&h->resize_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: demote_store+0xae/0x460
>>
>> stack backtrace:
>> CPU: 3 PID: 710 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc6-00452-ga4d0275fa660-dirty #79
>> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
>> Call Trace:
>> <TASK>
>> dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
>> __lock_acquire+0x10f2/0x1ca0
>> lock_acquire+0xbe/0x2d0
>> __mutex_lock+0x6d/0x400
>> demote_store+0x244/0x460
>> kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
>> vfs_write+0x380/0x540
>> ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
>> do_syscall_64+0xb9/0x1d0
>> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
>> RIP: 0033:0x7fa61db14887
>> RSP: 002b:00007ffc56c48358 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
>> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 00007fa61db14887
>> RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 000055a030050220 RDI: 0000000000000001
>> RBP: 000055a030050220 R08: 00007fa61dbd1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
>> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
>> R13: 00007fa61dc1b780 R14: 00007fa61dc17600 R15: 00007fa61dc16a00
>> </TASK>
>>
>> Lockdep considers this an AA deadlock because the different resize_lock
>> mutexes reside in the same lockdep class, but this is a false positive.
>> Place them in distinct classes to avoid these warnings.
>>
>> Fixes: 8531fc6f52f5 ("hugetlb: add hugetlb demote page support")
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
>> ---
>> mm/hugetlb.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> index 45fd3bc75332..2004e6d3f7ca 100644
>> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
>> @@ -4659,6 +4659,8 @@ bool __init __attribute((weak)) arch_hugetlb_valid_size(unsigned long size)
>> return size == HPAGE_SIZE;
>> }
>>
>> +static struct lock_class_key hugetlb_resize_keys[HUGE_MAX_HSTATE];
> 
> It's better to let this into "struct hstate".
> 
>> +
>> void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned int order)
>> {
>> 	struct hstate *h;
>> @@ -4671,6 +4673,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned int order)
>> 	BUG_ON(order < order_base_2(__NR_USED_SUBPAGE));
>> 	h = &hstates[hugetlb_max_hstate++];
>> 	mutex_init(&h->resize_lock);
> 
> mutex_init() already declares a lock_class_key structure by itself, in
> order to avoid this, you should use __mutex_init().

While searching the code, I find we can do this in two ways:
1.__mutex_init with separate lock_class_key
2.mutex_init + lockdep_set_class

These are all fine to me. And I will use __mutex_init and move hugetlb_resize_keys
into "struct hstate" as you suggested.
Thanks.
.