Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2012-06-11

Re: [WARNING] lockdep and kmemcheck_alloc_shadow

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2012-06-11 09:56:07
Also in: lkml

On Sun, 20 May 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
Agreed, slab handles this correctly and it looks like slub ends up 
disabling irqs too early.

Does this fix it?  If so, we'll need to annotate it for stable as Ben 
noted.
Steven, did you have a chance to see if this fixes the issue for you?  Can 
I add your Tested-by?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
mm, slub: ensure irqs are not disabled for kmemcheck allocation

kmemcheck_alloc_shadow() cannot be called with irqs disabled, which is
possible with __GFP_WAIT.  Ensure we always have them enabled at
allocation time like slab does.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -1314,13 +1314,7 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
 			stat(s, ORDER_FALLBACK);
 	}
 
-	if (flags & __GFP_WAIT)
-		local_irq_disable();
-
-	if (!page)
-		return NULL;
-
-	if (kmemcheck_enabled
+	if (page && kmemcheck_enabled
 		&& !(s->flags & (SLAB_NOTRACK | DEBUG_DEFAULT_FLAGS))) {
 		int pages = 1 << oo_order(oo);
 
@@ -1336,6 +1330,11 @@ static struct page *allocate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int node)
 			kmemcheck_mark_unallocated_pages(page, pages);
 	}
 
+	if (flags & __GFP_WAIT)
+		local_irq_disable();
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+
 	page->objects = oo_objects(oo);
 	mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page),
 		(s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT) ?
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