Re: [PATCH RFC 02/10] mm: Make shrink_slab() lockless

Tetsuo Handa
2018-08-08T12:36:34Z

On 2018/08/08 20:51, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> @@ -192,7 +193,6 @@ static int prealloc_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
> int id, ret = -ENOMEM;
>
> down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
> - /* This may call shrinker, so it must use down_read_trylock() */
> id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, SHRINKER_REGISTERING, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (id < 0)
> goto unlock;

I don't know why perf reports down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem). But
above code is already bad. GFP_KERNEL allocation involves shrinkers and
the OOM killer would be invoked because shrinkers are defunctional due to
this down_write(&shrinker_rwsem). Please avoid blocking memory allocation
with shrinker_rwsem held.