From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] mm/mm_init: Don't call cond_resched() in deferred_init_memmap_chunk() if rcu_preempt_depth() set
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:40:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260122034017.505589-1-longman@redhat.com> (raw)
Commit 3acb913c9d5b ("mm/mm_init: use deferred_init_memmap_chunk()
in deferred_grow_zone()") made deferred_grow_zone() call
deferred_init_memmap_chunk() within a pgdat_resize_lock() critical
section with irqs disabled. It did check for irqs_disabled() in
deferred_init_memmap_chunk() to avoid calling cond_resched(). For a
PREEMPT_RT kernel build, however, spin_lock_irqsave() does not disable
interrupt but rcu_read_lock() is called. This leads to the following
bug report.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mm_init.c:2091
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
#0: ffff80008471b7a0 (sched_domains_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: sched_domains_mutex_lock+0x28/0x40
#1: ffff003bdfffef48 (&pgdat->node_size_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: deferred_grow_zone+0x140/0x278
#2: ffff800084acf600 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rt_spin_lock+0x1b4/0x408
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.19.0-rc6-test #1 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)
}
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Call trace:
show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0xdc/0xf8
dump_stack+0x1c/0x28
__might_resched+0x384/0x530
deferred_init_memmap_chunk+0x560/0x688
deferred_grow_zone+0x190/0x278
_deferred_grow_zone+0x18/0x30
get_page_from_freelist+0x780/0xf78
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x1dc/0x348
alloc_slab_page+0x30/0x110
allocate_slab+0x98/0x2a0
new_slab+0x4c/0x80
___slab_alloc+0x5a4/0x770
__slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x88/0x1e0
__kmalloc_node_noprof+0x2c0/0x598
__sdt_alloc+0x3b8/0x728
build_sched_domains+0xe0/0x1260
sched_init_domains+0x14c/0x1c8
sched_init_smp+0x9c/0x1d0
kernel_init_freeable+0x218/0x358
kernel_init+0x28/0x208
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Fix it by checking rcu_preempt_depth() too before calling
cond_resched(). Note that rcu_preempt_depth() is a helper defined
in the public rcupdate.h header file and is defined whether or not
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is defined. By default, CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is enabled
in the PREEMPT_RT kernel.
Fixes: 3acb913c9d5b ("mm/mm_init: use deferred_init_memmap_chunk() in deferred_grow_zone()")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
[v2]: Add "linux/rcupdate.h" include.
---
mm/mm_init.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index fc2a6f1e518f..ba0b476c2d45 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include <linux/vmstat.h>
#include <linux/kexec_handover.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "slab.h"
#include "shuffle.h"
@@ -2085,7 +2086,12 @@ deferred_init_memmap_chunk(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
spfn = chunk_end;
- if (irqs_disabled())
+ /*
+ * pgdat_resize_lock() only disables irqs in non-RT
+ * kernels but implies rcu_read_lock() in a PREEMPT_RT
+ * kernel.
+ */
+ if (irqs_disabled() || rcu_preempt_depth())
touch_nmi_watchdog();
else
cond_resched();
--
2.52.0
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