This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: delete unnecessary and unsafe init_tlb_ubc() to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-delete-unnecessary-and-unsafe-init_tlb_ubc.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b385d21f27d86426472f6ae92a231095f7de2a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:27:04 -0700 Subject: mm: delete unnecessary and unsafe init_tlb_ubc() From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b385d21f27d86426472f6ae92a231095f7de2a8d upstream. init_tlb_ubc() looked unnecessary to me: tlb_ubc is statically initialized with zeroes in the init_task, and copied from parent to child while it is quiescent in arch_dup_task_struct(); so I went to delete it. But inserted temporary debug WARN_ONs in place of init_tlb_ubc() to check that it was always empty at that point, and found them firing: because memcg reclaim can recurse into global reclaim (when allocating biosets for swapout in my case), and arrive back at the init_tlb_ubc() in shrink_node_memcg(). Resetting tlb_ubc.flush_required at that point is wrong: if the upper level needs a deferred TLB flush, but the lower level turns out not to, we miss a TLB flush. But fortunately, that's the only part of the protocol that does not nest: with the initialization removed, cpumask collects bits from upper and lower levels, and flushes TLB when needed. Fixes: 72b252aed506 ("mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2159,23 +2159,6 @@ out: } } -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH -static void init_tlb_ubc(void) -{ - /* - * This deliberately does not clear the cpumask as it's expensive - * and unnecessary. If there happens to be data in there then the - * first SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages will send an unnecessary IPI and - * then will be cleared. - */ - current->tlb_ubc.flush_required = false; -} -#else -static inline void init_tlb_ubc(void) -{ -} -#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH */ - /* * This is a basic per-zone page freer. Used by both kswapd and direct reclaim. */ @@ -2210,8 +2193,6 @@ static void shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec scan_adjusted = (global_reclaim(sc) && !current_is_kswapd() && sc->priority == DEF_PRIORITY); - init_tlb_ubc(); - blk_start_plug(&plug); while (nr[LRU_INACTIVE_ANON] || nr[LRU_ACTIVE_FILE] || nr[LRU_INACTIVE_FILE]) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/mm-delete-unnecessary-and-unsafe-init_tlb_ubc.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html