+ mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: take memory hotplug lock within numa_zonelist_order_handler()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler.patch

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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: mm: take memory hotplug lock within numa_zonelist_order_handler()

Andre Wild reported the following warning:

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1205 at kernel/cpu.c:240 lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x4c/0x60
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 PID: 1205 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.13.0-rc2-00022-gfd2b2c57ec20 #10
Hardware name: IBM 2964 N96 702 (z/VM 6.4.0)
task: 00000000701d8100 task.stack: 0000000073594000
Krnl PSW : 0704f00180000000 0000000000145e24 (lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x4c/0x60)
...
Call Trace:
 lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x42/0x60)
 stop_machine_cpuslocked+0x62/0xf0
 build_all_zonelists+0x92/0x150
 numa_zonelist_order_handler+0x102/0x150
 proc_sys_call_handler.isra.12+0xda/0x118
 proc_sys_write+0x34/0x48
 __vfs_write+0x3c/0x178
 vfs_write+0xbc/0x1a0
 SyS_write+0x66/0xc0
 system_call+0xc4/0x2b0
 locks held by bash/1205:
 #0:  (sb_writers#4){.+.+.+}, at: [<000000000037b29e>] vfs_write+0xa6/0x1a0
 #1:  (zl_order_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<00000000002c8e4c>] numa_zonelist_order_handler+0x44/0x150
 #2:  (zonelists_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<00000000002c8efc>] numa_zonelist_order_handler+0xf4/0x150
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
 [<0000000000145e20>] lockdep_assert_cpus_held+0x48/0x60

This can be easily triggered with e.g.

 >echo n > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

With 3f906ba23689a ("mm/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a
percpu rwsem") memory hotplug locking was changed to fix a potential
deadlock. This also switched the stop_machine() invocation within
build_all_zonelists() to stop_machine_cpuslocked() which now expects
that online cpus are locked when being called.

This assumption is not true if build_all_zonelists() is being called
from numa_zonelist_order_handler(). In order to fix this simply add a
mem_hotplug_begin()/mem_hotplug_done() pair to numa_zonelist_order_handler().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170726111738.38768-1-heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Fixes: 3f906ba23689a ("mm/memory-hotplug: switch locking to a percpu rwsem")
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Andre Wild <wild@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4891,9 +4891,11 @@ int numa_zonelist_order_handler(struct c
 				NUMA_ZONELIST_ORDER_LEN);
 			user_zonelist_order = oldval;
 		} else if (oldval != user_zonelist_order) {
+			mem_hotplug_begin();
 			mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
 			build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL);
 			mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
+			mem_hotplug_done();
 		}
 	}
 out:
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com are

mm-take-memory-hotplug-lock-within-numa_zonelist_order_handler.patch