+ mm-add-missing-release-barrier-on-pgdat_reclaim_locked-unlock.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ mm-add-missing-release-barrier-on-pgdat_reclaim_locked-unlock.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm: add missing release barrier on PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED unlock
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-add-missing-release-barrier-on-pgdat_reclaim_locked-unlock.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-add-missing-release-barrier-on-pgdat_reclaim_locked-unlock.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: mm: add missing release barrier on PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED unlock
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:10:13 -0400

The PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED bit is used to provide mutual exclusion of node
reclaim for struct pglist_data using a single bit.

It is "locked" with a test_and_set_bit (similarly to a try lock) which
provides full ordering with respect to loads and stores done within
__node_reclaim().

It is "unlocked" with clear_bit(), which does not provide any ordering
with respect to loads and stores done before clearing the bit.

The lack of clear_bit() memory ordering with respect to stores within
__node_reclaim() can cause a subsequent CPU to fail to observe stores from
a prior node reclaim.  This is not an issue in practice on TSO (e.g. 
x86), but it is an issue on weakly-ordered architectures (e.g.  arm64).

Fix this by using clear_bit_unlock rather than clear_bit to clear
PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED with a release memory ordering semantic.

This provides stronger memory ordering (release rather than relaxed).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312141014.129725-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Fixes: d773ed6b856a ("mm: test and set zone reclaim lock before starting reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-add-missing-release-barrier-on-pgdat_reclaim_locked-unlock
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -7581,7 +7581,7 @@ int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgd
 		return NODE_RECLAIM_NOSCAN;
 
 	ret = __node_reclaim(pgdat, gfp_mask, order);
-	clear_bit(PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &pgdat->flags);
+	clear_bit_unlock(PGDAT_RECLAIM_LOCKED, &pgdat->flags);
 
 	if (ret)
 		count_vm_event(PGSCAN_ZONE_RECLAIM_SUCCESS);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com are

mm-add-missing-release-barrier-on-pgdat_reclaim_locked-unlock.patch
mm-lock-pgdat_reclaim_locked-with-acquire-memory-ordering.patch