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Commit be3e67b5 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/memcg: protect per-CPU counter by disabling preemption on PREEMPT_RT where needed.



The per-CPU counter are modified with the non-atomic modifier.  The
consistency is ensured by disabling interrupts for the update.  On non
PREEMPT_RT configuration this works because acquiring a spinlock_t typed
lock with the _irq() suffix disables interrupts.  On PREEMPT_RT
configurations the RMW operation can be interrupted.

Another problem is that mem_cgroup_swapout() expects to be invoked with
disabled interrupts because the caller has to acquire a spinlock_t which
is acquired with disabled interrupts.  Since spinlock_t never disables
interrupts on PREEMPT_RT the interrupts are never disabled at this
point.

The code is never called from in_irq() context on PREEMPT_RT therefore
disabling preemption during the update is sufficient on PREEMPT_RT.  The
sections which explicitly disable interrupts can remain on PREEMPT_RT
because the sections remain short and they don't involve sleeping locks
(memcg_check_events() is doing nothing on PREEMPT_RT).

Disable preemption during update of the per-CPU variables which do not
explicitly disable interrupts.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226204144.1008339-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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