* [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-page_alloc-fix-deadlock-on-cpu_hotplug_lock-in-__accept_page.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2025-04-18 3:11 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2025-04-18 3:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, vbabka, thomas.lendacky, sraithal, rppt,
rick.p.edgecombe, mgorman, david, dave.hansen, ashish.kalra,
kirill.shutemov, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix deadlock on cpu_hotplug_lock in __accept_page()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_alloc-fix-deadlock-on-cpu_hotplug_lock-in-__accept_page.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: fix deadlock on cpu_hotplug_lock in __accept_page()
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:10:29 +0200
When the last page in the zone is accepted, __accept_page() calls
static_branch_dec(). This function takes cpu_hotplug_lock, which can lead
to a deadlock if the allocation occurs during CPU bringup path as
_cpu_up() also takes the lock.
To prevent this deadlock, defer static_branch_dec() to a workqueue.
Call static_branch_dec() only when the workqueue is not yet initialized.
Workqueues are initialized before CPU bring up, so this will not conflict
with the first scenario.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250329171030.3942298-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: 55ad43e8ba0f ("mm: add a helper to accept page")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +++
mm/internal.h | 1 +
mm/mm_init.c | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-page_alloc-fix-deadlock-on-cpu_hotplug_lock-in-__accept_page
+++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -967,6 +967,9 @@ struct zone {
#ifdef CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
/* Pages to be accepted. All pages on the list are MAX_PAGE_ORDER */
struct list_head unaccepted_pages;
+
+ /* To be called once the last page in the zone is accepted */
+ struct work_struct unaccepted_cleanup;
#endif
/* zone flags, see below */
--- a/mm/internal.h~mm-page_alloc-fix-deadlock-on-cpu_hotplug_lock-in-__accept_page
+++ a/mm/internal.h
@@ -1595,6 +1595,7 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct pa
#ifdef CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
void accept_page(struct page *page);
+void unaccepted_cleanup_work(struct work_struct *work);
#else /* CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY */
static inline void accept_page(struct page *page)
{
--- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-page_alloc-fix-deadlock-on-cpu_hotplug_lock-in-__accept_page
+++ a/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1441,6 +1441,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lis
#ifdef CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->unaccepted_pages);
+ INIT_WORK(&zone->unaccepted_cleanup, unaccepted_cleanup_work);
#endif
}
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-fix-deadlock-on-cpu_hotplug_lock-in-__accept_page
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7191,6 +7191,11 @@ static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(zones_wit
static bool lazy_accept = true;
+void unaccepted_cleanup_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ static_branch_dec(&zones_with_unaccepted_pages);
+}
+
static int __init accept_memory_parse(char *p)
{
if (!strcmp(p, "lazy")) {
@@ -7229,8 +7234,27 @@ static void __accept_page(struct zone *z
__free_pages_ok(page, MAX_PAGE_ORDER, FPI_TO_TAIL);
- if (last)
- static_branch_dec(&zones_with_unaccepted_pages);
+ if (last) {
+ /*
+ * There are two corner cases:
+ *
+ * - If allocation occurs during the CPU bring up,
+ * static_branch_dec() cannot be used directly as
+ * it causes a deadlock on cpu_hotplug_lock.
+ *
+ * Instead, use schedule_work() to prevent deadlock.
+ *
+ * - If allocation occurs before workqueues are initialized,
+ * static_branch_dec() should be called directly.
+ *
+ * Workqueues are initialized before CPU bring up, so this
+ * will not conflict with the first scenario.
+ */
+ if (system_wq)
+ schedule_work(&zone->unaccepted_cleanup);
+ else
+ unaccepted_cleanup_work(&zone->unaccepted_cleanup);
+ }
}
void accept_page(struct page *page)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com are
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