I do not see any scheduler guys Cced and it would be really great to get
their opinion here.
On Mon 10-12-18 11:36:39, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> In some special cases we must not block, but there's not a
> spinlock, preempt-off, irqs-off or similar critical section already
> that arms the might_sleep() debug checks. Add a non_block_start/end()
> pair to annotate these.
>
> This will be used in the oom paths of mmu-notifiers, where blocking is
> not allowed to make sure there's forward progress.
Considering the only alternative would be to abuse
preempt_{disable,enable}, and that really has a different semantic, I
think this makes some sense. The cotext is preemptible but we do not
want notifier to sleep on any locks, WQ etc.
> Suggested by Michal Hocko.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/kernel.h | 10 +++++++++-
> include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++++
> kernel/sched/core.c | 6 +++---
> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
> index d6aac75b51ba..c2cf31515b3d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kernel.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
> @@ -251,7 +251,9 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void);
> * might_sleep - annotation for functions that can sleep
> *
> * this macro will print a stack trace if it is executed in an atomic
> - * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...).
> + * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...). Additional sections where blocking is
> + * not allowed can be annotated with non_block_start() and non_block_end()
> + * pairs.
> *
> * This is a useful debugging help to be able to catch problems early and not
> * be bitten later when the calling function happens to sleep when it is not
> @@ -260,6 +262,10 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void);
> # define might_sleep() \
> do { __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0); might_resched(); } while (0)
> # define sched_annotate_sleep() (current->task_state_change = 0)
> +# define non_block_start() \
> + do { current->non_block_count++; } while (0)
> +# define non_block_end() \
> + do { WARN_ON(current->non_block_count-- == 0); } while (0)
> #else
> static inline void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line,
> int preempt_offset) { }
> @@ -267,6 +273,8 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void);
> int preempt_offset) { }
> # define might_sleep() do { might_resched(); } while (0)
> # define sched_annotate_sleep() do { } while (0)
> +# define non_block_start() do { } while (0)
> +# define non_block_end() do { } while (0)
> #endif
>
> #define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0)
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index ecffd4e37453..41249dbf8f27 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -916,6 +916,10 @@ struct task_struct {
> struct mutex_waiter *blocked_on;
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
> + int non_block_count;
> +#endif
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> unsigned int irq_events;
> unsigned long hardirq_enable_ip;
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 6fedf3a98581..969d7a71f30c 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6113,7 +6113,7 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset)
> rcu_sleep_check();
>
> if ((preempt_count_equals(preempt_offset) && !irqs_disabled() &&
> - !is_idle_task(current)) ||
> + !is_idle_task(current) && !current->non_block_count) ||
> system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING || system_state > SYSTEM_RUNNING ||
> oops_in_progress)
> return;
> @@ -6129,8 +6129,8 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset)
> "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at %s:%d\n",
> file, line);
> printk(KERN_ERR
> - "in_atomic(): %d, irqs_disabled(): %d, pid: %d, name: %s\n",
> - in_atomic(), irqs_disabled(),
> + "in_atomic(): %d, irqs_disabled(): %d, non_block: %d, pid: %d, name: %s\n",
> + in_atomic(), irqs_disabled(), current->non_block_count,
> current->pid, current->comm);
>
> if (task_stack_end_corrupted(current))
> --
> 2.20.0.rc1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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