mm: extract might_alloc() debug check
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:08:34 +0000 (19:08 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:13:41 +0000 (12:13 -0800)
commit95d6c701f4ca7c44dc148d664f604541266a2333
treeae8a8f1e90fba58147f247e0ed14989dcd96a19a
parentf920e413ff9c33c297c0bde7cc5fe8cd736112e2
mm: extract might_alloc() debug check

Extracted from slab.h, which seems to have the most complete version
including the correct might_sleep() check.  Roll it out to slob.c.

Motivated by a discussion with Paul about possibly changing call_rcu
behaviour to allocate memory, but only roughly every 500th call.

There are a lot fewer places in the kernel that care about whether
allocating memory is allowed or not (due to deadlocks with reclaim code)
than places that care whether sleeping is allowed.  But debugging these
also tends to be a lot harder, so nice descriptive checks could come in
handy.  I might have some use eventually for annotations in drivers/gpu.

Note that unlike fs_reclaim_acquire/release gfpflags_allow_blocking does
not consult the PF_MEMALLOC flags.  But there is no flag equivalent for
GFP_NOWAIT, hence this check can't go wrong due to
memalloc_no*_save/restore contexts.  Willy is working on a patch series
which might change this:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200625113122.7540-7-willy@infradead.org/

I think best would be if that updates gfpflags_allow_blocking(), since
there's a ton of callers all over the place for that already.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201125162532.1299794-3-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellström (Intel) <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/sched/mm.h
mm/slab.h
mm/slob.c