From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752446AbeDKJ6C (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:58:02 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:57141 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751546AbeDKJ6A (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:58:00 -0400 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , "Steven J . Hill" , Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH] Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:57:57 +0200 Message-Id: <20180411095757.28585-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch reverts commit c7f26ccfb2c3 ("mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG"). Steven saw a "using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" message and added a preempt_disable() section around it to keep it quiet. This is not the right thing to do it does not fix the real problem. vmstat_update() is invoked by a kworker on a specific CPU. This worker it bound to this CPU. The name of the worker was "kworker/1:1" so it should have been a worker which was bound to CPU1. A worker which can run on any CPU would have a `u' before the first digit. smp_processor_id() can be used in a preempt-enabled region as long as the task is bound to a single CPU which is the case here. If it could run on an arbitrary CPU then this is the problem we have an should seek to resolve. Not only this smp_processor_id() must not be migrated to another CPU but also refresh_cpu_vm_stats() which might access wrong per-CPU variables. Not to mention that other code relies on the fact that such a worker runs on one specific CPU only. Therefore I revert that commit and we should look instead what broke the affinity mask of the kworker. Cc: Steven J. Hill Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior --- mm/vmstat.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 33581be705f0..40b2db6db6b1 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1839,11 +1839,9 @@ static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w) * to occur in the future. Keep on running the * update worker thread. */ - preempt_disable(); queue_delayed_work_on(smp_processor_id(), mm_percpu_wq, this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work), round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); - preempt_enable(); } } =20 --=20 2.17.0