From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx135.postini.com [74.125.245.135]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E15A26B005D for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2012 22:33:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp09.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:31:48 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q852XKYE22151168 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:33:21 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q852XJJx032741 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:33:20 +1000 Message-ID: <5046B9EE.7000804@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:33:18 +0800 From: Michael Wang MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [PATCH] slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lock References: <5044692D.7080608@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <5044692D.7080608@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Matt Mackall , Pekka Enberg , Christoph Lameter From: Michael Wang DEADLOCK will be report while running a kernel with NUMA and LOCKDEP enabled, the process of this fake report is: kmem_cache_free() //free obj in cachep -> cache_free_alien() //acquire cachep's l3 alien lock -> __drain_alien_cache() -> free_block() -> slab_destroy() -> kmem_cache_free() //free slab in cachep->slabp_cache -> cache_free_alien() //acquire cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien lock Since the cachep and cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien are in the same lock class, fake report generated. This should not happen since we already have init_lock_keys() which will reassign the lock class for both l3 list and l3 alien. However, init_lock_keys() was invoked at a wrong position which is before we invoke enable_cpucache() on each cache. Since until set slab_state to be FULL, we won't invoke enable_cpucache() on caches to build their l3 alien while creating them, so although we invoked init_lock_keys(), the l3 alien lock class won't change since we don't have them until invoked enable_cpucache() later. This patch will invoke init_lock_keys() after we done enable_cpucache() instead of before to avoid the fake DEADLOCK report. Signed-off-by: Michael Wang --- mm/slab.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index d4715e5..cc679ef 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -1780,9 +1780,6 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void) slab_state = UP; - /* Annotate slab for lockdep -- annotate the malloc caches */ - init_lock_keys(); - /* 6) resize the head arrays to their final sizes */ mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); list_for_each_entry(cachep, &slab_caches, list) @@ -1790,6 +1787,9 @@ void __init kmem_cache_init_late(void) BUG(); mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); + /* Annotate slab for lockdep -- annotate the malloc caches */ + init_lock_keys(); + /* Done! */ slab_state = FULL; -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org