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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm/hugetlb: defer free_huge_page() to a workqueue
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On 12/12/19 11:04 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> There have been deadlock reports[1, 2] where put_page is called
> from softirq context and this causes trouble with the hugetlb_lock,
> as well as potentially the subpool lock.
>
> For such an unlikely scenario, lets not add irq dancing overhead
> to the lock+unlock operations, which could incur in expensive
> instruction dependencies, particularly when considering hard-irq
> safety. For example PUSHF+POPF on x86.
>
> Instead, just use a workqueue and do the free_huge_page() in regular
> task context.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191211194615.18502-1-longman@redhat.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180905112341.21355-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com/
>
> Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>

Thank you Davidlohr.

The patch does seem fairly simple and straight forward. I need to brush up
on my workqueue knowledge to provide a full review.

Longman,
Do you have a test to reproduce the issue? If so, can you try running with
this patch.
--
Mike Kravetz

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