From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: mm: deadlock between get_online_cpus/pcpu_alloc
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 09:42:09 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702090940190.23960@east.gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702091548300.3604@nanos>
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The stop_machine would need to ensure that all cpus cease processing
> > before proceeding.
>
> Ok. I try again:
>
> CPU 0 CPU 1
> for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> ==> cpu = 1
> stop_machine()
>
> Stops processing on all CPUs by preempting the current execution and
> forcing them into a high priority busy loop with interrupts disabled.
Exactly that means we are outside of the sections marked with
get_online_cpous().
> It does exactly what you describe. It stops processing on all other cpus
> until release, but that does not invalidate any data on those cpus.
Why would it need to invalidate any data? The change of the cpu masks
would need to be done when the machine is stopped. This sounds exactly
like what we need and much of it is already there.
Lets get rid of get_online_cpus() etc.
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-29 12:44 Dmitry Vyukov
2017-01-29 17:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-01-30 15:48 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-02-06 19:13 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-02-06 22:05 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 8:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 9:23 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 9:46 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 10:42 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 11:13 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 9:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 10:05 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 10:28 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 10:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 11:34 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 11:43 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 11:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 12:37 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 12:43 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 12:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 13:57 ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-02-07 13:58 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 14:19 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 15:34 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 16:22 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 16:41 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 16:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-07 22:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-08 7:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 12:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-08 12:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 12:26 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-08 13:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-08 14:03 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-08 14:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-02-08 15:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-08 15:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-08 16:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-08 17:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 3:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 11:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 14:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 15:42 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2017-02-09 16:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 17:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-09 17:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-02-09 19:15 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-10 17:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-08 15:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2017-02-07 17:03 ` Tejun Heo
2017-02-07 20:16 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 13:03 ` Mel Gorman
2017-02-07 13:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 11:24 ` Tetsuo Handa
2017-02-07 8:43 ` Michal Hocko
2017-02-07 21:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
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