I applied this patch and tried it out (*without* PREEMPT_RT), and it
works fine. Reading through the code carefully, it looks correct to
me.
I'm not as familiar with testing PREEMPT_RT kernels though, so likely
someone with more familiarity should take a look.
Feel free to take:
Reviewed-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 9:35 AM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<nsaenzju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> mmap_lock will explicitly disable/enable preemption upon manipulating
> its local CPU variables. This is to be expected, but in this case, it
> doesn't play well with PREEMPT_RT. The preemption disabled code section
> also takes a spin-lock. Spin-locks in RT systems will try to schedule,
> which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.
>
> To mitigate this, convert the explicit preemption handling to
> local_locks. Which are RT aware, and will disable migration instead of
> preemption when PREEMPT_RT=y.
>
> The faulty call trace looks like the following:
> __mmap_lock_do_trace_*()
> preempt_disable()
> get_mm_memcg_path()
> cgroup_path()
> kernfs_path_from_node()
> spin_lock_irqsave() /* Scheduling while atomic! */
>
> Fixes: 2b5067a8143e3 ("mm: mmap_lock: add tracepoints around lock acquisition ")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/mmap_lock.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap_lock.c b/mm/mmap_lock.c
> index dcdde4f722a4..2ae3f33b85b1 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap_lock.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap_lock.c
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
> #include <linux/smp.h>
> #include <linux/trace_events.h>
> +#include <linux/local_lock.h>
>
> EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(mmap_lock_start_locking);
> EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(mmap_lock_acquire_returned);
> @@ -39,21 +40,30 @@ static int reg_refcount; /* Protected by reg_lock. */
> */
> #define CONTEXT_COUNT 4
>
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char __rcu *, memcg_path_buf);
> +struct memcg_path {
> + local_lock_t lock;
> + char __rcu *buf;
> + local_t buf_idx;
> +};
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct memcg_path, memcg_paths) = {
> + .lock = INIT_LOCAL_LOCK(lock),
> + .buf_idx = LOCAL_INIT(0),
> +};
> +
> static char **tmp_bufs;
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, memcg_path_buf_idx);
>
> /* Called with reg_lock held. */
> static void free_memcg_path_bufs(void)
> {
> + struct memcg_path *memcg_path;
> int cpu;
> char **old = tmp_bufs;
>
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> - *(old++) = rcu_dereference_protected(
> - per_cpu(memcg_path_buf, cpu),
> + memcg_path = per_cpu_ptr(&memcg_paths, cpu);
> + *(old++) = rcu_dereference_protected(memcg_path->buf,
> lockdep_is_held(®_lock));
> - rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(memcg_path_buf, cpu), NULL);
> + rcu_assign_pointer(memcg_path->buf, NULL);
> }
>
> /* Wait for inflight memcg_path_buf users to finish. */
> @@ -88,7 +98,7 @@ int trace_mmap_lock_reg(void)
> new = kmalloc(MEMCG_PATH_BUF_SIZE * CONTEXT_COUNT, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (new == NULL)
> goto out_fail_free;
> - rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu(memcg_path_buf, cpu), new);
> + rcu_assign_pointer(per_cpu_ptr(&memcg_paths, cpu)->buf, new);
> /* Don't need to wait for inflights, they'd have gotten NULL. */
> }
>
> @@ -122,23 +132,24 @@ void trace_mmap_lock_unreg(void)
>
> static inline char *get_memcg_path_buf(void)
> {
> + struct memcg_path *memcg_path = this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_paths);
> char *buf;
> int idx;
>
> rcu_read_lock();
> - buf = rcu_dereference(*this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_path_buf));
> + buf = rcu_dereference(memcg_path->buf);
> if (buf == NULL) {
> rcu_read_unlock();
> return NULL;
> }
> - idx = this_cpu_add_return(memcg_path_buf_idx, MEMCG_PATH_BUF_SIZE) -
> + idx = local_add_return(MEMCG_PATH_BUF_SIZE, &memcg_path->buf_idx) -
> MEMCG_PATH_BUF_SIZE;
> return &buf[idx];
> }
>
> static inline void put_memcg_path_buf(void)
> {
> - this_cpu_sub(memcg_path_buf_idx, MEMCG_PATH_BUF_SIZE);
> + local_sub(MEMCG_PATH_BUF_SIZE, &this_cpu_ptr(&memcg_paths)->buf_idx);
> rcu_read_unlock();
> }
>
> @@ -179,14 +190,14 @@ static const char *get_mm_memcg_path(struct mm_struct *mm)
> #define TRACE_MMAP_LOCK_EVENT(type, mm, ...) \
> do { \
> const char *memcg_path; \
> - preempt_disable(); \
> + local_lock(&memcg_paths.lock); \
> memcg_path = get_mm_memcg_path(mm); \
> trace_mmap_lock_##type(mm, \
> memcg_path != NULL ? memcg_path : "", \
> ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> if (likely(memcg_path != NULL)) \
> put_memcg_path_buf(); \
> - preempt_enable(); \
> + local_unlock(&memcg_paths.lock); \
> } while (0)
>
> #else /* !CONFIG_MEMCG */
> --
> 2.31.1
>
