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mm/page_alloc: replace local_lock with normal spinlock
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:54:23 +0000 (13:54 +0100)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:14:35 +0000 (17:14 -0700)
commit01b44456a7aa7c3b24fa9db7d1714b208b8ef3d8
tree76f0cf17f028bf0e0ba9e4e1df3c62ee8e19ae96
parent443c2accd1b6679a1320167f8f56eed6536b806e
mm/page_alloc: replace local_lock with normal spinlock

struct per_cpu_pages is no longer strictly local as PCP lists can be
drained remotely using a lock for protection.  While the use of local_lock
works, it goes against the intent of local_lock which is for "pure CPU
local concurrency control mechanisms and not suited for inter-CPU
concurrency control" (Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst)

local_lock protects against migration between when the percpu pointer is
accessed and the pcp->lock acquired.  The lock acquisition is a preemption
point so in the worst case, a task could migrate to another NUMA node and
accidentally allocate remote memory.  The main requirement is to pin the
task to a CPU that is suitable for PREEMPT_RT and !PREEMPT_RT.

Replace local_lock with helpers that pin a task to a CPU, lookup the
per-cpu structure and acquire the embedded lock.  It's similar to
local_lock without breaking the intent behind the API.  It is not a
complete API as only the parts needed for PCP-alloc are implemented but in
theory, the generic helpers could be promoted to a general API if there
was demand for an embedded lock within a per-cpu struct with a guarantee
that the per-cpu structure locked matches the running CPU and cannot use
get_cpu_var due to RT concerns.  PCP requires these semantics to avoid
accidentally allocating remote memory.

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: use pcp_spin_trylock_irqsave instead of pcpu_spin_trylock_irqsave]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627084645.GA27531@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c