+ mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch added to -mm tree

+ mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc: explicitly acquire the zone lock in __free_pages_ok
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: explicitly acquire the zone lock in __free_pages_ok

__free_pages_ok() disables IRQs before calling a common helper
free_one_page() that acquires the zone lock.  This is not safe according
to Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst and in this context, IRQ disabling
is not protecting a per_cpu_pages structure either or a local_lock would
be used.

This patch explicitly acquires the lock with spin_lock_irqsave instead of
relying on a helper.  This removes the last instance of local_irq_save()
in page_alloc.c.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512095458.30632-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1579,21 +1579,21 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int migratetype;
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
 
 	if (!free_pages_prepare(page, order, true, fpi_flags))
 		return;
 
 	migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
 
-	/*
-	 * TODO FIX: Disable IRQs before acquiring IRQ-safe zone->lock
-	 * and protect vmstat updates.
-	 */
-	local_irq_save(flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 	__count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
-	free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype,
-		      fpi_flags);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	if (unlikely(has_isolate_pageblock(zone) ||
+		is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))) {
+		migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
+	}
+	__free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, fpi_flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
 }
 
 void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@techsingularity.net are

mm-page_alloc-split-per-cpu-page-lists-and-zone-stats.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-per-cpu-list-protection-to-local_lock.patch
mm-vmstat-convert-numa-statistics-to-basic-numa-counters.patch
mm-vmstat-inline-numa-event-counter-updates.patch
mm-page_alloc-batch-the-accounting-updates-in-the-bulk-allocator.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-duration-that-irqs-are-disabled-for-vm-counters.patch
mm-page_alloc-explicitly-acquire-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-conflating-irqs-disabled-with-zone-lock.patch
mm-page_alloc-update-pgfree-outside-the-zone-lock-in-__free_pages_ok.patch