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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2018-02-01 03:16:19 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-01 04:18:36 +0300
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mm: drop hotplug lock from lru_add_drain_all()
Pulling cpu hotplug locks inside the mm core function like lru_add_drain_all just asks for problems and the recent lockdep splat [1] just proves this. While the usage in that particular case might be wrong we should avoid the locking as lru_add_drain_all() is used in many places. It seems that this is not all that hard to achieve actually. We have done the same thing for drain_all_pages which is analogous by commit a459eeb7b852 ("mm, page_alloc: do not depend on cpu hotplug locks inside the allocator"). All we have to care about is to handle - the work item might be executed on a different cpu in worker from unbound pool so it doesn't run on pinned on the cpu - we have to make sure that we do not race with page_alloc_cpu_dead calling lru_add_drain_cpu the first part is already handled because the worker calls lru_add_drain which disables preemption when calling lru_add_drain_cpu on the local cpu it is draining. The later is true because page_alloc_cpu_dead is called on the controlling CPU after the hotplugged CPU vanished completely. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/089e0825eec8955c1f055c83d476@google.com [add a cpu hotplug locking interaction as per tglx] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171116120535.23765-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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