On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 04:13:41PM GMT, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The assert was introduced in the commit cited below as an insurance that
> the semantic is the same after the local_irq_save() has been removed and
> the function has been made static.
>
> The original requirement to disable interrupt was due the modification
> of per-CPU counters which require interrupts to be disabled because the
> counter update operation is not atomic and some of the counters are
> updated from interrupt context.
>
> All callers of __mod_objcg_mlstate() acquire a lock
> (memcg_stock.stock_lock) which disables interrupts on !PREEMPT_RT and
> the lockdep assert is satisfied. On PREEMPT_RT the interrupts are not
> disabled and the assert triggers.
>
> The safety of the counter update is already ensured by
> VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED() which is part of __mod_memcg_lruvec_state() and
> does not require yet another check.
One question on VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED() in __mod_memcg_lruvec_state().
On a PREEMPT_RT kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, will that
VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED() cause a splat or VM_WARN_ON_IRQS_ENABLED is
special on PREEMPT_RT kernels?
>
> Remove the lockdep assert from __mod_objcg_mlstate().
>
> Fixes: 91882c1617c15 ("memcg: simple cleanup of stats update functions")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240528121928.i-Gu7Jvg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> On 2024-05-28 15:44:51 [+0200], Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) wrote:
> > I think just s/memcg_stats_lock()/__mod_memcg_lruvec_state()/ in your
> > phrasing, since we are removing the lockdep assert from path that calls
> > __mod_memcg_lruvec_state() and not memcg_stats_lock()?
> > Or am I missing something?
>
> Yeah, makes sense.
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3147,8 +3147,6 @@ static inline void __mod_objcg_mlstate(s
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> struct lruvec *lruvec;
>
> - lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled();
> -
> rcu_read_lock();
> memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
> lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
