Re: [PATCH 00/28] mm: preemptibility -v3

["Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:06 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
> i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
> preemptible.
I applied it against 2.6.35-rc2 on x86_64 machine, but kernel booting panic.

Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.35-rc2-petermm #1 X7DW3/X7DW3
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8160e055>]  [<ffffffff8160e055>] mutex_unlock
+0x0/0x13
RSP: 0018:ffff88022fc61a78  EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88022ebd5780 RCX: 0000000000000020
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000100173 RDI: 8000000000000025
RBP: 0000000000000020 R08: 00007fffffffe000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: ffffffff8128c275 R12: ffff88022e76b000
R13: 0000000000021000 R14: ffff88022fc68000 R15: 00007fff4c0e6000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8800021c0000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000022e76c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process init (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff88022fc60000, task
ffff88022fc58000)
Stack:
 ffffffff810aabac 00000000ffffefff 0000000000000000 00007fff4c107000
<0> ffff88022e76b000 00007fffffffe000 00007ffffffff000 00007fff4c106000
<0> ffffffff810c5e5a ffff88022ebd5780 ffff88022ebd5780 ffff88022ebd5780
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810aabac>] ? expand_downwards+0x149/0x15a
 [<ffffffff810c5e5a>] ? setup_arg_pages+0x333/0x361
 [<ffffffff810c8955>] ? inode_permission+0x76/0x95
 [<ffffffff810f8a19>] ? load_elf_binary+0x0/0x16c9
 [<ffffffff810f8e7e>] ? load_elf_binary+0x465/0x16c9
 [<ffffffff810c488a>] ? get_arg_page+0x4b/0xa4
 [<ffffffff810f8a19>] ? load_elf_binary+0x0/0x16c9
 [<ffffffff810c4ce4>] ? search_binary_handler+0xd4/0x26f
 [<ffffffff810f7a1c>] ? load_script+0x0/0x1e4
 [<ffffffff810f7bea>] ? load_script+0x1ce/0x1e4
 [<ffffffff810c488a>] ? get_arg_page+0x4b/0xa4
 [<ffffffff810c4ce4>] ? search_binary_handler+0xd4/0x26f
 [<ffffffff810c6228>] ? do_execve+0x1e5/0x2b6
 [<ffffffff81008d60>] ? sys_execve+0x35/0x53
 [<ffffffff81003648>] ? kernel_execve+0x68/0xd0
 [<ffffffff81000342>] ? init_post+0x5a/0xd4
 [<ffffffff81cdf97d>] ? kernel_init+0x1e5/0x1ec
 [<ffffffff810035d4>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff81cdf798>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1ec
 [<ffffffff810035d0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
Code: 1c 24 44 89 64 24 08 48 c7 44 24 20 07 fd 04 81 48 89 44 24 28 48
89 44 24 30 e8 26 ff ff ff 48 83 c4 48 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3 <48> c7
47 18 00 00 00 00 f0 ff 07 7f 05 e8 01 00 00 00 c3 53 48 
RIP  [<ffffffff8160e055>] mutex_unlock+0x0/0x13
 RSP <ffff88022fc61a78>
---[ end trace dc724d36e0cd4a32 ]---

> 
> The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
> appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.
> 
> The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
> something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.
> 
> It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
> cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.
> 
> This patch-set it build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
> also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 did too when
> Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).
> 
> There are no known architectures left unconverted, although some arch code
> never did see a compiler (superh and um come to mind).
> 
> Can we move this work forwards, or is there anything people would want to
> see done?
> 
> [ The series includes Rik's latest patches to the same area for
> convenience ]
> 
> 
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