mm/page_alloc: avoid conflating IRQs disabled with zone->lock
Historically when freeing pages, free_one_page() assumed that callers had IRQs disabled and the zone->lock could be acquired with spin_lock(). This confuses the scope of what local_lock_irq is protecting and what zone->lock is protecting in free_unref_page_list in particular. This patch uses spin_lock_irqsave() for the zone->lock in free_one_page() instead of relying on callers to have disabled IRQs. free_unref_page_commit() is changed to only deal with PCP pages protected by the local lock. free_unref_page_list() then first frees isolated pages to the buddy lists with free_one_page() and frees the rest of the pages to the PCP via free_unref_page_commit(). The end result is that free_one_page() is no longer depending on side-effects of local_lock to be correct. Note that this may incur a performance penalty while memory hot-remove is running but that is not a common operation. [lkp@intel.com: Ensure CMA pages get addded to correct pcp list] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512095458.30632-9-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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