[PATCH v4 0/8] make hugetlb put_page safe for all calling contexts

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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR REVIEWERS:  v3 of this series is in Andrew's mmotm
tree v5.12-rc5-mmotm-2021-03-31-21-27.  Muchun Song noticed that Oscar
Salvador's series "Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages" was also
added to that mmotm version.  v3 of this series did not take Oscar's
changes into account.  v4 addresses those omissions.

v4 is based on the following:
- Start with v5.12-rc5-mmotm-2021-03-31-21-27
- Revert v3 of this series

Patch changes from v3:
1	- Trivial context fixup due to cma changes.  No functional changes
2, 3	- No change
4, 5	- Changes required due to "Make alloc_contig_range handle
	  Hugetlb pages".  Specifically, alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page
	  changes are in need of review.
6	- No change
7	- Fairly straight forward spin_*lock calls to spin_*lock_irq*
	  changes in code from "Make alloc_contig_range handle Hugetlb pages"
	  series.
8	- Trivial change due to context changes.  No functional change.

If easier to review, I could also provide delta patches on top of
patches 4, 5, and 7 of v3.

Original cover letter follows:
This effort is the result a recent bug report [1].  Syzbot found a
potential deadlock in the hugetlb put_page/free_huge_page_path.
WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
Since the free_huge_page_path already has code to 'hand off' page
free requests to a workqueue, a suggestion was proposed to make
the in_irq() detection accurate by always enabling PREEMPT_COUNT [2].
The outcome of that discussion was that the hugetlb put_page path
(free_huge_page) path should be properly fixed and safe for all calling
contexts.

This series is based on v5.12-rc3-mmotm-2021-03-17-22-24.  At a high
level, the series provides:
- Patches 1 & 2 change CMA bitmap mutex to an irq safe spinlock
- Patch 3 adds a mutex for proc/sysfs interfaces changing hugetlb counts
- Patches 4, 5 & 6 are aimed at reducing lock hold times.  To be clear
  the goal is to eliminate single lock hold times of a long duration.
  Overall lock hold time is not addressed.
- Patch 7 makes hugetlb_lock and subpool lock IRQ safe.  It also reverts
  the code which defers calls to a workqueue if !in_task.
- Patch 8 adds some lockdep_assert_held() calls

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000f1c03b05bc43aadc@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311021321.127500-1-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx

v3 -> v4
- Add changes needed for the series "Make alloc_contig_range handle
  Hugetlb pages"

v2 -> v3
- Update commit message in patch 1 as suggested by Michal
- Do not use spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore when we know we
  are in task context as suggested by Michal
- Remove unnecessary INIT_LIST_HEAD() as suggested by Muchun

v1 -> v2
- Drop Roman's cma_release_nowait() patches and just change CMA mutex
  to an IRQ safe spinlock.
- Cleanups to variable names, commets and commit messages as suggested
  by Michal, Oscar, Miaohe and Muchun.
- Dropped unnecessary INIT_LIST_HEAD as suggested by Michal and list_del
  as suggested by Muchun.
- Created update_and_free_pages_bulk helper as suggested by Michal.
- Rebased on v5.12-rc4-mmotm-2021-03-28-16-37
- Added Acked-by: and Reviewed-by: from v1

RFC -> v1
- Add Roman's cma_release_nowait() patches.  This eliminated the need
  to do a workqueue handoff in hugetlb code.
- Use Michal's suggestion to batch pages for freeing.  This eliminated
  the need to recalculate loop control variables when dropping the lock.
- Added lockdep_assert_held() calls
- Rebased to v5.12-rc3-mmotm-2021-03-17-22-24


Mike Kravetz (8):
  mm/cma: change cma mutex to irq safe spinlock
  hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma_release
  hugetlb: add per-hstate mutex to synchronize user adjustments
  hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality
  hugetlb: call update_and_free_page without hugetlb_lock
  hugetlb: change free_pool_huge_page to remove_pool_huge_page
  hugetlb: make free_huge_page irq safe
  hugetlb: add lockdep_assert_held() calls for hugetlb_lock

 include/linux/hugetlb.h |   1 +
 mm/cma.c                |  18 +-
 mm/cma.h                |   2 +-
 mm/cma_debug.c          |   8 +-
 mm/hugetlb.c            | 384 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c     |   8 +-
 6 files changed, 218 insertions(+), 203 deletions(-)

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