From: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
To: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org, minchan@kernel.org, getarunks@gmail.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mhocko@kernel.org, vbabka@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4]mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed pages to atomic
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:13:12 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22fa2222012341a54f6b0b6aea341aa2@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10c88df6-dbb1-7490-628c-055d59b5ad8e@yandex-team.ru>
On 2018-11-06 14:07, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On 06.11.2018 11:30, Arun KS wrote:
>> On 2018-11-06 13:47, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>>> On 06.11.2018 8:38, Arun KS wrote:
>>>> Any comments?
>>>
>>> Looks good.
>>> Except unclear motivation behind this change.
>>> This should be in comment of one of patch.
>>
>> totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages are sometimes
>> modified outside managed_page_count_lock. Hence convert these variable
>> to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a store tear.
>
> So, this is just theoretical issue or splat from sanitizer.
> After boot memory online\offline are strictly serialized by
> rw-semaphore.
Few instances which can race with hot add. Please see below,
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10627521/
Regards,
Arun
>
>>
>> Will update the comment.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arun
>>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Arun
>>>>
>>>> On 2018-10-26 16:30, Arun KS wrote:
>>>>> This series convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
>>>>> zone->managed_pages to atomic variables.
>>>>>
>>>>> The patch was comiple tested on x86(x86_64_defconfig &
>>>>> i386_defconfig)
>>>>> on tip of linux-mmotm. And memory hotplug tested on arm64, but on
>>>>> an
>>>>> older version of kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> Arun KS (4):
>>>>> mm: Fix multiple evaluvations of totalram_pages and managed_pages
>>>>> mm: Convert zone->managed_pages to atomic variable
>>>>> mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to
>>>>> atomic
>>>>> mm: Remove managed_page_count spinlock
>>>>>
>>>>> arch/csky/mm/init.c | 4 +-
>>>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c | 10 ++--
>>>>> arch/s390/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>>>>> arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 3 +-
>>>>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 5 +-
>>>>> drivers/char/agp/backend.c | 4 +-
>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_gtt.c | 4 +-
>>>>> drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 19 +++----
>>>>> drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/md/dm-integrity.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/md/dm-stats.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/parisc/ccio-dma.c | 4 +-
>>>>> drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c | 4 +-
>>>>> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 2 +-
>>>>> drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c | 6 +--
>>>>> fs/ceph/super.h | 2 +-
>>>>> fs/file_table.c | 7 +--
>>>>> fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 +-
>>>>> fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +-
>>>>> fs/nfsd/nfscache.c | 2 +-
>>>>> fs/ntfs/malloc.h | 2 +-
>>>>> fs/proc/base.c | 2 +-
>>>>> include/linux/highmem.h | 28 ++++++++++-
>>>>> include/linux/mm.h | 27 +++++++++-
>>>>> include/linux/mmzone.h | 15 +++---
>>>>> include/linux/swap.h | 1 -
>>>>> kernel/fork.c | 5 +-
>>>>> kernel/kexec_core.c | 5 +-
>>>>> kernel/power/snapshot.c | 2 +-
>>>>> lib/show_mem.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/highmem.c | 4 +-
>>>>> mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/memblock.c | 6 +--
>>>>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 +-
>>>>> mm/mm_init.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/oom_kill.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/page_alloc.c | 71
>>>>> +++++++++++++--------------
>>>>> mm/shmem.c | 7 +--
>>>>> mm/slab.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/swap.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/util.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/vmalloc.c | 4 +-
>>>>> mm/vmstat.c | 4 +-
>>>>> mm/workingset.c | 2 +-
>>>>> mm/zswap.c | 4 +-
>>>>> net/dccp/proto.c | 7 +--
>>>>> net/decnet/dn_route.c | 2 +-
>>>>> net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 2 +-
>>>>> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c | 7 +--
>>>>> net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c | 5 +-
>>>>> net/sctp/protocol.c | 7 +--
>>>>> security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c | 2 +-
>>>>> 58 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-06 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-26 11:00 [PATCH v1 0/4]mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed pages to atomic Arun KS
2018-10-26 11:00 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] mm: Fix multiple evaluvations of totalram_pages and managed_pages Arun KS
2018-10-26 11:01 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] mm: Convert zone->managed_pages to atomic variable Arun KS
2018-10-26 11:01 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic Arun KS
[not found] ` <20181106141438.GQ27423@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2018-11-07 10:38 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-26 11:01 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] mm: Remove managed_page_count spinlock Arun KS
[not found] ` <20181106141732.GR27423@dhcp22.suse.cz>
2018-11-07 10:36 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 11:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-06 5:38 ` [PATCH v1 0/4]mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed pages to atomic Arun KS
2018-11-06 8:17 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2018-11-06 8:30 ` Arun KS
2018-11-06 8:37 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2018-11-06 8:43 ` Arun KS [this message]
2018-11-07 7:02 ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2018-11-07 8:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-07 10:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 10:39 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 0:22 ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-07 6:19 ` Arun KS
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2018-10-26 11:00 Arun KS
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