mm/cma: change cma mutex to irq safe spinlock
Patch series "make hugetlb put_page safe for all calling contexts", v5. This effort is the result a recent bug report [1]. Syzbot found a potential deadlock in the hugetlb put_page/free_huge_page_path. WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected Since the free_huge_page_path already has code to 'hand off' page free requests to a workqueue, a suggestion was proposed to make the in_irq() detection accurate by always enabling PREEMPT_COUNT [2]. The outcome of that discussion was that the hugetlb put_page path (free_huge_page) path should be properly fixed and safe for all calling contexts. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/000000000000f1c03b05bc43aadc@google.com/ [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311021321.127500-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com This patch (of 8): cma_release is currently a sleepable operatation because the bitmap manipulation is protected by cma->lock mutex. Hugetlb code which relies on cma_release for CMA backed (giga) huget...
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