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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2019-09-19 13:37:05 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-09-25 17:42:31 +0200
commitc172e0a3e8e65a4c6fffec5bc4d6de08d6f894f7 (patch)
treed93685ace699942f22d6861581a44de5f46e60cc /kernel
parentc6d68c1c4a4d6611fc0f8145d764226571d737ca (diff)
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sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on memory allocation failure
Remove the IPI fallback code from membarrier to deal with very infrequent cpumask memory allocation failure. Use GFP_KERNEL rather than GFP_NOWAIT, and relax the blocking guarantees for the expedited membarrier system call commands, allowing it to block if waiting for memory to be made available. In addition, now -ENOMEM can be returned to user-space if the cpumask memory allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919173705.2181-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/membarrier.c63
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index fced54ad0f3d..a39bed2c784f 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ void membarrier_exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
{
int cpu;
- bool fallback = false;
cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
@@ -78,15 +77,8 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
*/
smp_mb(); /* system call entry is not a mb. */
- /*
- * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
- * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
- * implementation.
- */
- if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT)) {
- /* Fallback for OOM. */
- fallback = true;
- }
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
cpus_read_lock();
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -117,18 +109,15 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
continue;
- if (!fallback)
- __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
- else
- smp_call_function_single(cpu, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
+ __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (!fallback) {
- preempt_disable();
- smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
- preempt_enable();
- free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
- }
+
+ preempt_disable();
+ smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
+ preempt_enable();
+
+ free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
cpus_read_unlock();
/*
@@ -143,7 +132,6 @@ static int membarrier_global_expedited(void)
static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
{
int cpu;
- bool fallback = false;
cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
@@ -168,15 +156,8 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
*/
smp_mb(); /* system call entry is not a mb. */
- /*
- * Expedited membarrier commands guarantee that they won't
- * block, hence the GFP_NOWAIT allocation flag and fallback
- * implementation.
- */
- if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT)) {
- /* Fallback for OOM. */
- fallback = true;
- }
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return -ENOMEM;
cpus_read_lock();
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -195,20 +176,16 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
continue;
rcu_read_lock();
p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr);
- if (p && p->mm == mm) {
- if (!fallback)
- __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
- else
- smp_call_function_single(cpu, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
- }
+ if (p && p->mm == mm)
+ __cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (!fallback) {
- preempt_disable();
- smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
- preempt_enable();
- free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
- }
+
+ preempt_disable();
+ smp_call_function_many(tmpmask, ipi_mb, NULL, 1);
+ preempt_enable();
+
+ free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
cpus_read_unlock();
/*
@@ -264,7 +241,7 @@ static int sync_runqueues_membarrier_state(struct mm_struct *mm)
struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
struct task_struct *p;
- p = rcu_dereference(&rq->curr);
+ p = rcu_dereference(rq->curr);
if (p && p->mm == mm)
__cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
}