On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:53:30 +0300 Sergey Senozhatsky [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hello gentlemen,

Commit 589a606f9539663f162e4a110d117527833b58a4 ("percpu: add preemption
checks to __this_cpu ops") added preempt check to used in __count_vm_events()
__this_cpu ops, causing the following kswapd warning:

 BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: kswapd0/56
 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
 Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff813b8d4d>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
 [<ffffffff8121366f>] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xdd
 [<ffffffff812136bb>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
 [<ffffffff810f622e>] inode_lru_isolate+0xed/0x197
 [<ffffffff810be43c>] list_lru_walk_node+0x7b/0x14c
 [<ffffffff810f6141>] ? iput+0x131/0x131
 [<ffffffff810f681f>] prune_icache_sb+0x35/0x4c
 [<ffffffff810e3951>] super_cache_scan+0xe3/0x143
 [<ffffffff810b1301>] shrink_slab_node+0x103/0x16f
 [<ffffffff810b19fd>] shrink_slab+0x75/0xe4
 [<ffffffff810b3f3d>] balance_pgdat+0x2fa/0x47f
 [<ffffffff810b4395>] kswapd+0x2d3/0x2fd
 [<ffffffff81068049>] ? __wake_up_sync+0xd/0xd
 [<ffffffff810b40c2>] ? balance_pgdat+0x47f/0x47f
 [<ffffffff81051e75>] kthread+0xd6/0xde
 [<ffffffff81051d9f>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x162/0x162
 [<ffffffff813be5bc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
 [<ffffffff81051d9f>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x162/0x162


list_lru_walk_node() seems to be the only place where __count_vm_events()
called with preemption enabled. remaining __count_vm_events() and
__count_vm_event() calls are done with preemption disabled (unless I
overlooked something).

Christoph caught one.  How does this look?



From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: fs/inode.c:inode_lru_isolate(): use atomic count_vm_events()

"percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops" added preempt check to
used in __count_vm_events() __this_cpu ops, causing the following kswapd
warning:

 BUG: using __this_cpu_add() in preemptible [00000000] code: kswapd0/56
 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
 Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff813b8d4d>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
 [<ffffffff8121366f>] check_preemption_disabled+0xce/0xdd
 [<ffffffff812136bb>] __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
 [<ffffffff810f622e>] inode_lru_isolate+0xed/0x197
 [<ffffffff810be43c>] list_lru_walk_node+0x7b/0x14c
 [<ffffffff810f6141>] ? iput+0x131/0x131
 [<ffffffff810f681f>] prune_icache_sb+0x35/0x4c

Switch from __count_vm_events() to the preempt-safe count_vm_events().

Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <redacted>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/inode.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/inode.c~fs-inodec-inode_lru_isolate-use-atomic-count_vm_events fs/inode.c

--- a/fs/inode.c~fs-inodec-inode_lru_isolate-use-atomic-count_vm_events
+++ a/fs/inode.c

@@ -722,9 +722,9 @@ inode_lru_isolate(struct list_head *item
 			unsigned long reap;
 			reap = invalidate_mapping_pages(&inode->i_data, 0, -1);
 			if (current_is_kswapd())
-				__count_vm_events(KSWAPD_INODESTEAL, reap);
+				count_vm_events(KSWAPD_INODESTEAL, reap);
 			else
-				__count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap);
+				count_vm_events(PGINODESTEAL, reap);
 			if (current->reclaim_state)
 				current->reclaim_state->reclaimed_slab += reap;
 		}