[PATCH v2 3/4] mm/memcg: Protect per-CPU counter by disabling preemption on PREEMPT_RT where needed.

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>]

The per-CPU counter are modified with the non-atomic modifier. The
consistency is ensured by disabling interrupts for the update.
On non PREEMPT_RT configuration this works because acquiring a
spinlock_t typed lock with the _irq() suffix disables interrupts. On
PREEMPT_RT configurations the RMW operation can be interrupted.

Another problem is that mem_cgroup_swapout() expects to be invoked with
disabled interrupts because the caller has to acquire a spinlock_t which
is acquired with disabled interrupts. Since spinlock_t never disables
interrupts on PREEMPT_RT the interrupts are never disabled at this
point.

The code is never called from in_irq() context on PREEMPT_RT therefore
disabling preemption during the update is sufficient on PREEMPT_RT.
The sections which explicitly disable interrupts can remain on
PREEMPT_RT because the sections remain short and they don't involve
sleeping locks (memcg_check_events() is doing nothing on PREEMPT_RT).

Disable preemption during update of the per-CPU variables which do not
explicitly disable interrupts.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c1caa662946dc..466466f285cea 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -705,6 +705,8 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
 	pn = container_of(lruvec, struct mem_cgroup_per_node, lruvec);
 	memcg = pn->memcg;
 
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
+		preempt_disable();
 	/* Update memcg */
 	__this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_percpu->state[idx], val);
 
@@ -712,6 +714,8 @@ void __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum node_stat_item idx,
 	__this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stats_percpu->state[idx], val);
 
 	memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, val);
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
+		preempt_enable();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -794,8 +798,12 @@ void __count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, enum vm_event_item idx,
 	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
 		return;
 
+	if (IS_ENABLED(PREEMPT_RT))
+		preempt_disable();
 	__this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_percpu->events[idx], count);
 	memcg_rstat_updated(memcg, count);
+	if (IS_ENABLED(PREEMPT_RT))
+		preempt_enable();
 }
 
 static unsigned long memcg_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int event)
@@ -7148,9 +7156,18 @@ void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry)
 	 * i_pages lock which is taken with interrupts-off. It is
 	 * important here to have the interrupts disabled because it is the
 	 * only synchronisation we have for updating the per-CPU variables.
+	 * On PREEMPT_RT interrupts are never disabled and the updates to per-CPU
+	 * variables are synchronised by keeping preemption disabled.
 	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
-	mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, -nr_entries);
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)) {
+		VM_BUG_ON(!irqs_disabled());
+		mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, -nr_entries);
+	} else {
+		preempt_disable();
+		mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, -nr_entries);
+		preempt_enable();
+	}
+
 	memcg_check_events(memcg, page_to_nid(page));
 
 	css_put(&memcg->css);
-- 
2.34.1