Commit Graph

46 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds 54be820019 Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
Pull slab update from Pekka Enberg:
 "Highlights:

  - Fix for boot-time problems on some architectures due to
    init_lock_keys() not respecting kmalloc_caches boundaries
    (Christoph Lameter)

  - CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL requested by RT folks (Joonsoo Kim)

  - Fix for excessive slab freelist draining (Wanpeng Li)

  - SLUB and SLOB cleanups and fixes (various people)"

I ended up editing the branch, and this avoids two commits at the end
that were immediately reverted, and I instead just applied the oneliner
fix in between myself.

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux
  slub: Check for page NULL before doing the node_match check
  mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names
  slob: Check for NULL pointer before calling ctor()
  slub: Make cpu partial slab support configurable
  slab: add kmalloc() to kernel API documentation
  slab: fix init_lock_keys
  slob: use DIV_ROUND_UP where possible
  slub: do not put a slab to cpu partial list when cpu_partial is 0
  mm/slub: Use node_nr_slabs and node_nr_objs in get_slabinfo
  mm/slub: Drop unnecessary nr_partials
  mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab
  mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub
  mm/slab: Fix drain freelist excessively
  slob: Rework #ifdeffery in slab.h
  mm, slab: moved kmem_cache_alloc_node comment to correct place
2013-07-14 15:14:29 -07:00
Wanpeng Li 276a2439ce mm/slab: Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names
Give s_next and s_stop slab-specific names instead of exporting
"s_next" and "s_stop".

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-08 11:02:17 +03:00
Wanpeng Li e9b4db2b8d mm/slab: Fix /proc/slabinfo unwriteable for slab
Slab have some tunables like limit, batchcount, and sharedfactor can be
tuned through function slabinfo_write. Commit (b7454ad3: mm/sl[au]b: Move
slabinfo processing to slab_common.c) uncorrectly change /proc/slabinfo
unwriteable for slab, this patch fix it by revert to original mode.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 18:37:47 +03:00
Wanpeng Li e25839f679 mm/slab: Sharing s_next and s_stop between slab and slub
This patch shares s_next and s_stop between slab and slub.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-07-07 18:37:47 +03:00
Sasha Levin 907985f48b slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN
Sasha Levin noticed that the warning introduced by commit 6286ae9
("slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations) is being triggered:

  WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 21519 at mm/slab_common.c:376 kmalloc_slab+0x2f/0xb0()
  can: request_module (can-proto-4) failed.
  mpoa: proc_mpc_write: could not parse ''
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 15 PID: 21519 Comm: trinity-child15 Tainted: G W    3.10.0-rc4-next-20130607-sasha-00011-gcd78395-dirty #2
   0000000000000009 ffff880020a95e30 ffffffff83ff4041 0000000000000000
   ffff880020a95e68 ffffffff8111fe12 fffffffffffffff0 00000000000082d0
   0000000000080000 0000000000080000 0000000001400000 ffff880020a95e78
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff83ff4041>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
   [<ffffffff8111fe12>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xb0
   [<ffffffff8111fe55>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
   [<ffffffff81243dcf>] kmalloc_slab+0x2f/0xb0
   [<ffffffff81278d54>] __kmalloc+0x24/0x4b0
   [<ffffffff8196ffe3>] ? security_capable+0x13/0x20
   [<ffffffff812a26b7>] ? pipe_fcntl+0x107/0x210
   [<ffffffff812a26b7>] pipe_fcntl+0x107/0x210
   [<ffffffff812b7ea0>] ? fget_raw_light+0x130/0x3f0
   [<ffffffff812aa5fb>] SyS_fcntl+0x60b/0x6a0
   [<ffffffff8403ca98>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

Andrew Morton writes:

  __GFP_NOWARN is frequently used by kernel code to probe for "how big
  an allocation can I get".  That's a bit lame, but it's used on slow
  paths and is pretty simple.

However, SLAB would still spew a warning when a big allocation happens
if the __GFP_NOWARN flag is _not_ set to expose kernel bugs.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
[ penberg@kernel.org: improve changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-06-13 10:01:58 +03:00
Chris Mason 956e46efb2 mm/slab: Fix crash during slab init
Commit 8a965b3baa ("mm, slab_common: Fix bootstrap creation of kmalloc
caches") introduced a regression that caused us to crash early during
boot.  The commit was introducing ordering of slab creation, making sure
two odd-sized slabs were created after specific powers of two sizes.

But, if any of the power of two slabs were created earlier during boot,
slabs at index 1 or 2 might not get created at all.  This patch makes
sure none of the slabs get skipped.

Tony Lindgren bisected this down to the offending commit, which really
helped because bisect kept bringing me to almost but not quite this one.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-08 15:02:33 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 8a965b3baa mm, slab_common: Fix bootstrap creation of kmalloc caches
For SLAB the kmalloc caches must be created in ascending sizes in order
for the OFF_SLAB sub-slab cache to work properly.

Create the non power of two caches immediately after the prior power of
two kmalloc cache. Do not create the non power of two caches before all
other caches.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lamete <cl@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201305040348.CIF81716.OStQOHFJMFLOVF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-05-06 23:22:17 +03:00
Christoph Lameter 6286ae97d1 slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations
The inline path seems to have changed the SLAB behavior for very large
kmalloc allocations with  commit e3366016 ("slab: Use common
kmalloc_index/kmalloc_size functions"). This patch restores the old
behavior but also adds diagnostics so that we can figure where in the
code these large allocations occur.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201305040348.CIF81716.OStQOHFJMFLOVF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
[ penberg@kernel.org: use WARN_ON_ONCE ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-05-06 09:24:16 +03:00
Joonsoo Kim b1e0541674 mm/sl[au]b: correct allocation type check in kmalloc_slab()
commit "slab: Common Kmalloc cache determination" made mistake
in kmalloc_slab(). SLAB_CACHE_DMA is for kmem_cache creation,
not for allocation. For allocation, we should use GFP_XXX to identify
type of allocation. So, change SLAB_CACHE_DMA to GFP_DMA.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-06 20:37:55 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 2c59dd6544 slab: Common Kmalloc cache determination
Extract the optimized lookup functions from slub and put them into
slab_common.c. Then make slab use these functions as well.

Joonsoo notes that this fixes some issues with constant folding which
also reduces the code size for slub.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/20/82

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:08 +02:00
Christoph Lameter f97d5f634d slab: Common function to create the kmalloc array
The kmalloc array is created in similar ways in both SLAB
and SLUB. Create a common function and have both allocators
call that function.

V1->V2:
	Whitespace cleanup

Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:08 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 9425c58e54 slab: Common definition for the array of kmalloc caches
Have a common definition fo the kmalloc cache arrays in
SLAB and SLUB

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:07 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 31ba7346f0 slab: Use proper formatting specs for unsigned size_t
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2013-02-01 12:32:05 +02:00
Glauber Costa 943a451a87 slab: propagate tunable values
SLAB allows us to tune a particular cache behavior with tunables.  When
creating a new memcg cache copy, we'd like to preserve any tunables the
parent cache already had.

This could be done by an explicit call to do_tune_cpucache() after the
cache is created.  But this is not very convenient now that the caches are
created from common code, since this function is SLAB-specific.

Another method of doing that is taking advantage of the fact that
do_tune_cpucache() is always called from enable_cpucache(), which is
called at cache initialization.  We can just preset the values, and then
things work as expected.

It can also happen that a root cache has its tunables updated during
normal system operation.  In this case, we will propagate the change to
all caches that are already active.

This change will require us to move the assignment of root_cache in
memcg_params a bit earlier.  We need this to be already set - which
memcg_kmem_register_cache will do - when we reach __kmem_cache_create()

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa 749c54151a memcg: aggregate memcg cache values in slabinfo
When we create caches in memcgs, we need to display their usage
information somewhere.  We'll adopt a scheme similar to /proc/meminfo,
with aggregate totals shown in the global file, and per-group information
stored in the group itself.

For the time being, only reads are allowed in the per-group cache.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa 7cf2798240 memcg/sl[au]b: track all the memcg children of a kmem_cache
This enables us to remove all the children of a kmem_cache being
destroyed, if for example the kernel module it's being used in gets
unloaded.  Otherwise, the children will still point to the destroyed
parent.

Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:14 -08:00
Glauber Costa 55007d8497 memcg: allocate memory for memcg caches whenever a new memcg appears
Every cache that is considered a root cache (basically the "original"
caches, tied to the root memcg/no-memcg) will have an array that should be
large enough to store a cache pointer per each memcg in the system.

Theoreticaly, this is as high as 1 << sizeof(css_id), which is currently
in the 64k pointers range.  Most of the time, we won't be using that much.

What goes in this patch, is a simple scheme to dynamically allocate such
an array, in order to minimize memory usage for memcg caches.  Because we
would also like to avoid allocations all the time, at least for now, the
array will only grow.  It will tend to be big enough to hold the maximum
number of kmem-limited memcgs ever achieved.

We'll allocate it to be a minimum of 64 kmem-limited memcgs.  When we have
more than that, we'll start doubling the size of this array every time the
limit is reached.

Because we are only considering kmem limited memcgs, a natural point for
this to happen is when we write to the limit.  At that point, we already
have set_limit_mutex held, so that will become our natural synchronization
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Glauber Costa 2633d7a028 slab/slub: consider a memcg parameter in kmem_create_cache
Allow a memcg parameter to be passed during cache creation.  When the slub
allocator is being used, it will only merge caches that belong to the same
memcg.  We'll do this by scanning the global list, and then translating
the cache to a memcg-specific cache

Default function is created as a wrapper, passing NULL to the memcg
version.  We only merge caches that belong to the same memcg.

A helper is provided, memcg_css_id: because slub needs a unique cache name
for sysfs.  Since this is visible, but not the canonical location for slab
data, the cache name is not used, the css_id should suffice.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-18 15:02:13 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 4590685546 mm/sl[aou]b: Common alignment code
Extract the code to do object alignment from the allocators.
Do the alignment calculations in slab_common so that the
__kmem_cache_create functions of the allocators do not have
to deal with alignment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:28 +02:00
Christoph Lameter 45530c4474 mm, sl[au]b: create common functions for boot slab creation
Use a special function to create kmalloc caches and use that function in
SLAB and SLUB.

Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-12-11 12:14:27 +02:00
Glauber Costa d8843922fb slab: Ignore internal flags in cache creation
Some flags are used internally by the allocators for management
purposes. One example of that is the CFLGS_OFF_SLAB flag that slab uses
to mark that the metadata for that cache is stored outside of the slab.

No cache should ever pass those as a creation flags. We can just ignore
this bit if it happens to be passed (such as when duplicating a cache in
the kmem memcg patches).

Because such flags can vary from allocator to allocator, we allow them
to make their own decisions on that, defining SLAB_AVAILABLE_FLAGS with
all flags that are valid at creation time.  Allocators that doesn't have
any specific flag requirement should define that to mean all flags.

Common code will mask out all flags not belonging to that set.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-31 09:13:01 +02:00
Glauber Costa 0d7561c61d sl[au]b: Process slabinfo_show in common code
With all the infrastructure in place, we can now have slabinfo_show
done from slab_common.c. A cache-specific function is called to grab
information about the cache itself, since that is still heavily
dependent on the implementation. But with the values produced by it, all
the printing and handling is done from common code.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 09:39:16 +03:00
Glauber Costa bcee6e2a13 mm/sl[au]b: Move print_slabinfo_header to slab_common.c
The header format is highly similar between slab and slub. The main
difference lays in the fact that slab may optionally have statistics
added here in case of CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, while the slub will stick them
somewhere else.

By making sure that information conditionally lives inside a
globally-visible CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB switch, we can move the header
printing to a common location.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 09:38:38 +03:00
Glauber Costa b7454ad3cf mm/sl[au]b: Move slabinfo processing to slab_common.c
This patch moves all the common machinery to slabinfo processing
to slab_common.c. We can do better by noticing that the output is
heavily common, and having the allocators to just provide finished
information about this. But after this first step, this can be done
easier.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-24 09:37:41 +03:00
Jiri Kosina 210ed9deff mm, slab: release slab_mutex earlier in kmem_cache_destroy()
Commit 1331e7a1bb ("rcu: Remove _rcu_barrier() dependency on
__stop_machine()") introduced slab_mutex -> cpu_hotplug.lock dependency
through kmem_cache_destroy() -> rcu_barrier() -> _rcu_barrier() ->
get_online_cpus().

Lockdep thinks that this might actually result in ABBA deadlock,
and reports it as below:

=== [ cut here ] ===
 ======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 3.6.0-rc5-00004-g0d8ee37 #143 Not tainted
 -------------------------------------------------------
 kworker/u:2/40 is trying to acquire lock:
  (rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff810f2126>] _rcu_barrier+0x26/0x1e0

 but task is already holding lock:
  (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81176e15>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x45/0xe0

 which lock already depends on the new lock.

 the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

 -> #2 (slab_mutex){+.+.+.}:
        [<ffffffff810ae1e2>] validate_chain+0x632/0x720
        [<ffffffff810ae5d9>] __lock_acquire+0x309/0x530
        [<ffffffff810ae921>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
        [<ffffffff8155d4cc>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5c/0x450
        [<ffffffff8155d9ee>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x50
        [<ffffffff81558cb5>] cpuup_callback+0x2f/0xbe
        [<ffffffff81564b83>] notifier_call_chain+0x93/0x140
        [<ffffffff81076f89>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0x10
        [<ffffffff8155719d>] _cpu_up+0xba/0x14e
        [<ffffffff815572ed>] cpu_up+0xbc/0x117
        [<ffffffff81ae05e3>] smp_init+0x6b/0x9f
        [<ffffffff81ac47d6>] kernel_init+0x147/0x1dc
        [<ffffffff8156ab44>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

 -> #1 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
        [<ffffffff810ae1e2>] validate_chain+0x632/0x720
        [<ffffffff810ae5d9>] __lock_acquire+0x309/0x530
        [<ffffffff810ae921>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
        [<ffffffff8155d4cc>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5c/0x450
        [<ffffffff8155d9ee>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x50
        [<ffffffff81049197>] get_online_cpus+0x37/0x50
        [<ffffffff810f21bb>] _rcu_barrier+0xbb/0x1e0
        [<ffffffff810f22f0>] rcu_barrier_sched+0x10/0x20
        [<ffffffff810f2309>] rcu_barrier+0x9/0x10
        [<ffffffff8118c129>] deactivate_locked_super+0x49/0x90
        [<ffffffff8118cc01>] deactivate_super+0x61/0x70
        [<ffffffff811aaaa7>] mntput_no_expire+0x127/0x180
        [<ffffffff811ab49e>] sys_umount+0x6e/0xd0
        [<ffffffff81569979>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

 -> #0 (rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex){+.+...}:
        [<ffffffff810adb4e>] check_prev_add+0x3de/0x440
        [<ffffffff810ae1e2>] validate_chain+0x632/0x720
        [<ffffffff810ae5d9>] __lock_acquire+0x309/0x530
        [<ffffffff810ae921>] lock_acquire+0x121/0x190
        [<ffffffff8155d4cc>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5c/0x450
        [<ffffffff8155d9ee>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3e/0x50
        [<ffffffff810f2126>] _rcu_barrier+0x26/0x1e0
        [<ffffffff810f22f0>] rcu_barrier_sched+0x10/0x20
        [<ffffffff810f2309>] rcu_barrier+0x9/0x10
        [<ffffffff81176ea1>] kmem_cache_destroy+0xd1/0xe0
        [<ffffffffa04c3154>] nf_conntrack_cleanup_net+0xe4/0x110 [nf_conntrack]
        [<ffffffffa04c31aa>] nf_conntrack_cleanup+0x2a/0x70 [nf_conntrack]
        [<ffffffffa04c42ce>] nf_conntrack_net_exit+0x5e/0x80 [nf_conntrack]
        [<ffffffff81454b79>] ops_exit_list+0x39/0x60
        [<ffffffff814551ab>] cleanup_net+0xfb/0x1b0
        [<ffffffff8106917b>] process_one_work+0x26b/0x4c0
        [<ffffffff81069f3e>] worker_thread+0x12e/0x320
        [<ffffffff8106f73e>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0
        [<ffffffff8156ab44>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10

 other info that might help us debug this:

 Chain exists of:
   rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex --> cpu_hotplug.lock --> slab_mutex

  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(slab_mutex);
                                lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
                                lock(slab_mutex);
   lock(rcu_sched_state.barrier_mutex);

  *** DEADLOCK ***
=== [ cut here ] ===

This is actually a false positive. Lockdep has no way of knowing the fact
that the ABBA can actually never happen, because of special semantics of
cpu_hotplug.refcount and its handling in cpu_hotplug_begin(); the mutual
exclusion there is not achieved through mutex, but through
cpu_hotplug.refcount.

The "neither cpu_up() nor cpu_down() will proceed past cpu_hotplug_begin()
until everyone who called get_online_cpus() will call put_online_cpus()"
semantics is totally invisible to lockdep.

This patch therefore moves the unlock of slab_mutex so that rcu_barrier()
is being called with it unlocked. It has two advantages:

- it slightly reduces hold time of slab_mutex; as it's used to protect
  the cachep list, it's not necessary to hold it over kmem_cache_free()
  call any more
- it silences the lockdep false positive warning, as it avoids lockdep ever
  learning about slab_mutex -> cpu_hotplug.lock dependency

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2012-10-10 09:25:08 +03:00