Robot reported this issue: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/27/851 That is introduced by: mm: initialize pages on demand during boot The problem is caused by changing static branch value within spin lock. Spin lock disables preemption, and changing static branch value takes mutex lock in its path, and thus may sleep. The fix is to add another boolean variable to avoid the need to change static branch within spinlock. Also, as noticed by Andrew, change spin_lock to spin_lock_irq, in order to disable interrupts and avoid possible deadlock with deferred_grow_zone(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b337a026007c..5df1ca40a2ff 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1579,6 +1579,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) * page_alloc_init_late() soon after smp_init() is complete. */ static __initdata DEFINE_SPINLOCK(deferred_zone_grow_lock); +static bool deferred_zone_grow __initdata = true; static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(deferred_pages); /* @@ -1616,7 +1617,7 @@ deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order) * Bail if we raced with another thread that disabled on demand * initialization. */ - if (!static_branch_unlikely(&deferred_pages)) { + if (!static_branch_unlikely(&deferred_pages) || !deferred_zone_grow) { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&deferred_zone_grow_lock, flags); return false; } @@ -1683,10 +1684,15 @@ void __init page_alloc_init_late(void) /* * We are about to initialize the rest of deferred pages, permanently * disable on-demand struct page initialization. + * + * Note: it is prohibited to modify static branches in non-preemptible + * context. Since, spin_lock() disables preemption, we must use an + * extra boolean deferred_zone_grow. */ - spin_lock(&deferred_zone_grow_lock); + spin_lock_irq(&deferred_zone_grow_lock); + deferred_zone_grow = false; + spin_unlock_irq(&deferred_zone_grow_lock); static_branch_disable(&deferred_pages); - spin_unlock(&deferred_zone_grow_lock); /* There will be num_node_state(N_MEMORY) threads */ atomic_set(&pgdat_init_n_undone, num_node_state(N_MEMORY)); -- 2.16.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
