mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages

Vlastimil Babka reported about a window issue during which when deferred
pages are initialized, and the current version of on-demand
initialization is finished, allocations may fail.  While this is highly
unlikely scenario, since this kind of allocation request must be large,
and must come from interrupt handler, we still want to cover it.

We solve this by initializing deferred pages with interrupts disabled,
and holding node_size_lock spin lock while pages in the node are being
initialized.  The on-demand deferred page initialization that comes
later will use the same lock, and thus synchronize with
deferred_init_memmap().

It is unlikely for threads that initialize deferred pages to be
interrupted.  They run soon after smp_init(), but before modules are
initialized, and long before user space programs.  This is why there is
no adverse effect of having these threads running with interrupts
disabled.

[pasha.tatashin@oracle.com: v6]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313182355.17669-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309220807.24961-2-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 531d6acb0106..cf5555df78bd 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ static void __init deferred_free_pages(int nid, int zid, unsigned long pfn,
                 } else if (!(pfn & nr_pgmask)) {
                         deferred_free_range(pfn - nr_free, nr_free);
                         nr_free = 1;
-                        cond_resched();
+                        touch_nmi_watchdog();
                 } else {
                         nr_free++;
                 }
@@ -1535,7 +1535,7 @@ static unsigned long  __init deferred_init_pages(int nid, int zid,
                         continue;
                 } else if (!page || !(pfn & nr_pgmask)) {
                         page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
-                        cond_resched();
+                        touch_nmi_watchdog();
                 } else {
                         page++;
                 }
@@ -1552,23 +1552,25 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
         int nid = pgdat->node_id;
         unsigned long start = jiffies;
         unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
-        unsigned long spfn, epfn;
+        unsigned long spfn, epfn, first_init_pfn, flags;
         phys_addr_t spa, epa;
         int zid;
         struct zone *zone;
-        unsigned long first_init_pfn = pgdat->first_deferred_pfn;
         const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
         u64 i;
 
+        /* Bind memory initialisation thread to a local node if possible */
+        if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
+                set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask);
+
+        pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
+        first_init_pfn = pgdat->first_deferred_pfn;
         if (first_init_pfn == ULONG_MAX) {
+                pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
                 pgdat_init_report_one_done();
                 return 0;
         }
 
-        /* Bind memory initialisation thread to a local node if possible */
-        if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
-                set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask);
-
         /* Sanity check boundaries */
         BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn < pgdat->node_start_pfn);
         BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn > pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat));
@@ -1598,6 +1600,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
                 epfn = min_t(unsigned long, zone_end_pfn(zone), PFN_DOWN(epa));
                 deferred_free_pages(nid, zid, spfn, epfn);
         }
+        pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
 
         /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */
         WARN_ON(++zid < MAX_NR_ZONES && populated_zone(++zone));