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* [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Use raw_cpu_ptr() for vmap_block_queue access.
@ 2022-05-04 17:03 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior @ 2022-05-04 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mm; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Thomas Gleixner

The per-CPU resource vmap_block_queue is accessed via the
get_cpu_var(). That macro disables preemption and then loads the pointer
from the current CPU.
This doesn't work on PREEMPT_RT because a spinlock_t is later accessed
within the preempt-disable section.

There is no need to disable preemption while accessing the per-CPU
struct vmap_block_queue because the list is protected with a spinlock_t.
The per-CPU struct is also accessed cross-CPU in
purge_fragmented_blocks().
It is possible that by using raw_cpu_ptr() the code migrates to another
CPU and uses struct from another CPU. This is fine because the list
locked and the locked section is very short.

Use raw_cpu_ptr() to access vmap_block_queue.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index cadfbb5155ea5..41a6e75fbcd8d 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1938,11 +1938,10 @@ static void *new_vmap_block(unsigned int order, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 
-	vbq = &get_cpu_var(vmap_block_queue);
+	vbq = raw_cpu_ptr(&vmap_block_queue);
 	spin_lock(&vbq->lock);
 	list_add_tail_rcu(&vb->free_list, &vbq->free);
 	spin_unlock(&vbq->lock);
-	put_cpu_var(vmap_block_queue);
 
 	return vaddr;
 }
@@ -2021,7 +2020,7 @@ static void *vb_alloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 	order = get_order(size);
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	vbq = &get_cpu_var(vmap_block_queue);
+	vbq = raw_cpu_ptr(&vmap_block_queue);
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(vb, &vbq->free, free_list) {
 		unsigned long pages_off;
 
@@ -2044,7 +2043,6 @@ static void *vb_alloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		break;
 	}
 
-	put_cpu_var(vmap_block_queue);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	/* Allocate new block if nothing was found */
-- 
2.36.0



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