From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm, slub: call deactivate_slab() without disabling irqs The function is now safe to be called with irqs enabled, so move the calls outside of irq disabled sections. When called from ___slab_alloc() -> flush_slab() we have irqs disabled, so to reenable them before deactivate_slab() we need to open-code flush_slab() in ___slab_alloc() and reenable irqs after modifying the kmem_cache_cpu fields. But that means a IRQ handler meanwhile might have assigned a new page to kmem_cache_cpu.page so we have to retry the whole check. The remaining callers of flush_slab() are the IPI handler which has disabled irqs anyway, and slub_cpu_dead() which will be dealt with in the following patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210805152000.12817-22-vbabka@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-call-deactivate_slab-without-disabling-irqs +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -2765,8 +2765,8 @@ deactivate_slab: freelist = c->freelist; c->page = NULL; c->freelist = NULL; - deactivate_slab(s, page, freelist); local_irq_restore(flags); + deactivate_slab(s, page, freelist); new_slab: @@ -2834,18 +2834,32 @@ check_new_page: */ goto return_single; +retry_load_page: + local_irq_save(flags); - if (unlikely(c->page)) - flush_slab(s, c); + if (unlikely(c->page)) { + void *flush_freelist = c->freelist; + struct page *flush_page = c->page; + + c->page = NULL; + c->freelist = NULL; + c->tid = next_tid(c->tid); + + local_irq_restore(flags); + + deactivate_slab(s, flush_page, flush_freelist); + + stat(s, CPUSLAB_FLUSH); + + goto retry_load_page; + } c->page = page; goto load_freelist; return_single: - local_irq_save(flags); deactivate_slab(s, page, get_freepointer(s, freelist)); - local_irq_restore(flags); return freelist; } _
