When there are huge amount of quarantined cache allocates in system,
number of entries in global_quarantine[i] will be great. Meanwhile,
there is no relax in while loop in function qlist_move_cache which
hold quarantine_lock. As a result, some userspace programs for example
libvirt will complain.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:04 PM, <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch fix livelock by conditionally release cpu to let others
> has a chance to run.
>
> Tested on x86_64.
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
> index 3a8ddf8..33eeff4 100644
> --- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
> +++ b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
> @@ -265,10 +265,13 @@ static void qlist_move_cache(struct qlist_head *from,
> struct kmem_cache *cache)
> {
> struct qlist_node *curr;
> + struct qlist_head tmp_head;
> + unsigned long flags;
>
> if (unlikely(qlist_empty(from)))
> return;
>
> + qlist_init(&tmp_head);
> curr = from->head;
> qlist_init(from);
> while (curr) {
> @@ -278,10 +281,17 @@ static void qlist_move_cache(struct qlist_head *from,
> if (obj_cache == cache)
> qlist_put(to, curr, obj_cache->size);
> else
> - qlist_put(from, curr, obj_cache->size);
> + qlist_put(&tmp_head, curr, obj_cache->size);
>
> curr = next;
> +
> + if (need_resched()) {
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&quarantine_lock, flags);
> + cond_resched();
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&quarantine_lock, flags);
> + }
> }
> + qlist_move_all(&tmp_head, from);
> }
>
> static void per_cpu_remove_cache(void *arg)
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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