mm, debug_pagealloc: don't rely on static keys too early
authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:29:20 +0000 (16:29 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 14 Jan 2020 02:19:02 +0000 (18:19 -0800)
commit8e57f8acbbd121ecfb0c9dc13b8b030f86c6bd3b
tree91516d1faa0be5ed78a8919e0fc6a0b1da1d2a8d
parent4a87e2a25dc27131c3cce5e94421622193305638
mm, debug_pagealloc: don't rely on static keys too early

Commit 96a2b03f281d ("mm, debug_pagelloc: use static keys to enable
debugging") has introduced a static key to reduce overhead when
debug_pagealloc is compiled in but not enabled.  It relied on the
assumption that jump_label_init() is called before parse_early_param()
as in start_kernel(), so when the "debug_pagealloc=on" option is parsed,
it is safe to enable the static key.

However, it turns out multiple architectures call parse_early_param()
earlier from their setup_arch().  x86 also calls jump_label_init() even
earlier, so no issue was found while testing the commit, but same is not
true for e.g.  ppc64 and s390 where the kernel would not boot with
debug_pagealloc=on as found by our QA.

To fix this without tricky changes to init code of multiple
architectures, this patch partially reverts the static key conversion
from 96a2b03f281d.  Init-time and non-fastpath calls (such as in arch
code) of debug_pagealloc_enabled() will again test a simple bool
variable.  Fastpath mm code is converted to a new
debug_pagealloc_enabled_static() variant that relies on the static key,
which is enabled in a well-defined point in mm_init() where it's
guaranteed that jump_label_init() has been called, regardless of
architecture.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: export _debug_pagealloc_enabled_early]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200106164944.063ac07b@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191219130612.23171-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Fixes: 96a2b03f281d ("mm, debug_pagelloc: use static keys to enable debugging")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
init/main.c
mm/page_alloc.c
mm/slab.c
mm/slub.c
mm/vmalloc.c