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From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, RCU <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Theodore Y . Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] rcu/tree: Drop the lock before entering to page allocator
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:02:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200715190243.GA26735@pc636> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715185628.7b4k3o5efp4gnbla@linutronix.de>

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 08:56:28PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-07-15 20:35:37 [+0200], Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > @@ -3306,6 +3307,9 @@ kvfree_call_rcu_add_ptr_to_bulk(struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp, void *ptr)
> >  			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> >  				return false;
> >  
> > +			preempt_disable();
> > +			krc_this_cpu_unlock(*krcp, *flags);
> 
> Now you enter memory allocator with disabled preemption. This isn't any
> better but we don't have a warning for this yet.
>
Please elaborate why it is not allowed? Consider the code:

<snip>
    spin_lock();
    __get_free_page(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
    spin_unlock();
<snip>

Also, please note we do it for regular kernel.

>
> What happened to the part where I asked for a spinlock_t?
> 
What do you mean?

--
Vlad Rezki

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-15 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-15 18:35 [PATCH 1/1] rcu/tree: Drop the lock before entering to page allocator Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2020-07-15 18:56 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-15 19:02   ` Uladzislau Rezki [this message]
2020-07-15 19:32     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-15 19:36       ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-15 22:14       ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-07-16 14:14         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-16 15:20           ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-07-16 15:36             ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-16 16:36               ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-07-15 23:13   ` Joel Fernandes
2020-07-16  9:19     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-16 13:36       ` Joel Fernandes
2020-07-16 14:37         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-16 18:27           ` Joel Fernandes
2020-07-16 19:03             ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-16 14:25       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-16 14:47         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-16 15:04           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-16 15:34             ` Uladzislau Rezki

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