The patch titled Subject: mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex zonelists_mutex has been introduced by 4eaf3f64397c ("mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone") to protect zonelist building from races. This is no longer needed though because both memory online and offline are fully serialized. New users have grown since then. Notably setup_per_zone_wmarks wants to prevent from races between memory hotplug, khugepaged setup and manual min_free_kbytes update via sysctl (see cfd3da1e49bb ("mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes"). Let's add a private lock for that purpose. This will not prevent from seeing halfway through memory hotplug operation but that shouldn't be a big deal becuse memory hotplug will update watermarks explicitly so we will eventually get a full picture. The lock just makes sure we won't race when updating watermarks leading to weird results. Also __build_all_zonelists manipulates global data so add a private lock for it as well. This doesn't seem to be necessary today but it is more robust to have a lock there. While we are at it make sure we document that memory online/offline depends on a full serialization either via mem_hotplug_begin() or device_lock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-9-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 - mm/memory_hotplug.c | 12 ++---------- mm/page_alloc.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex include/linux/mmzone.h --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex +++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -770,7 +770,6 @@ static inline bool is_dev_zone(const str #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h> -extern struct mutex zonelists_mutex; void build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat); void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, int order, enum zone_type classzone_idx); bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark, diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex mm/memory_hotplug.c --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ static struct zone * __meminit move_pfn_ return zone; } -/* Must be protected by mem_hotplug_begin() */ +/* Must be protected by mem_hotplug_begin() or a device_lock */ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, int online_type) { unsigned long flags; @@ -926,7 +926,6 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn * This means the page allocator ignores this zone. * So, zonelist must be updated after online. */ - mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); if (!populated_zone(zone)) { need_zonelists_rebuild = 1; setup_zone_pageset(zone); @@ -937,7 +936,6 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn if (ret) { if (need_zonelists_rebuild) zone_pcp_reset(zone); - mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); goto failed_addition; } @@ -955,8 +953,6 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn zone_pcp_update(zone); } - mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); - init_per_zone_wmark_min(); if (onlined_pages) { @@ -1027,9 +1023,7 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat * The node we allocated has no zone fallback lists. For avoiding * to access not-initialized zonelist, build here. */ - mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); build_all_zonelists(pgdat); - mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); /* * zone->managed_pages is set to an approximate value in @@ -1696,9 +1690,7 @@ repeat: if (!populated_zone(zone)) { zone_pcp_reset(zone); - mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); build_all_zonelists(NULL); - mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); } else zone_pcp_update(zone); @@ -1724,7 +1716,7 @@ failed_removal: return ret; } -/* Must be protected by mem_hotplug_begin() */ +/* Must be protected by mem_hotplug_begin() or a device_lock */ int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages) { return __offline_pages(start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages, 120 * HZ); diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-zonelists_mutex +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5131,17 +5131,14 @@ static void setup_pageset(struct per_cpu static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_pageset, boot_pageset); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct per_cpu_nodestat, boot_nodestats); -/* - * Global mutex to protect against size modification of zonelists - * as well as to serialize pageset setup for the new populated zone. - */ -DEFINE_MUTEX(zonelists_mutex); - static void __build_all_zonelists(void *data) { int nid; int __maybe_unused cpu; pg_data_t *self = data; + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock); + + spin_lock(&lock); #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA memset(node_load, 0, sizeof(node_load)); @@ -5173,6 +5170,8 @@ static void __build_all_zonelists(void * set_cpu_numa_mem(cpu, local_memory_node(cpu_to_node(cpu))); #endif } + + spin_unlock(&lock); } static noinline void __init @@ -5203,7 +5202,6 @@ build_all_zonelists_init(void) } /* - * Called with zonelists_mutex held always * unless system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING. * * __ref due to call of __init annotated helper build_all_zonelists_init @@ -6939,9 +6937,11 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void */ void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) { - mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(lock); + + spin_lock(&lock); __setup_per_zone_wmarks(); - mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); + spin_unlock(&lock); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are mm-memory_hotplug-do-not-back-off-draining-pcp-free-pages-from-kworker-context.patch mm-memory_hotplug-introduce-add_pages.patch mm-sparse-fix-typo-in-online_mem_sections.patch fs-proc-remove-priv-argument-from-is_stack.patch treewide-remove-gfp_temporary-allocation-flag.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html