4.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de
commit 28557cc106e6d2aa8b8c5c7687ea9f8055ff3911 upstream.
Revert commit c7f26ccfb2c3 ("mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG"). Steven saw a "using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" message and added a preempt_disable() section around it to keep it quiet. This is not the right thing to do it does not fix the real problem.
vmstat_update() is invoked by a kworker on a specific CPU. This worker it bound to this CPU. The name of the worker was "kworker/1:1" so it should have been a worker which was bound to CPU1. A worker which can run on any CPU would have a `u' before the first digit.
smp_processor_id() can be used in a preempt-enabled region as long as the task is bound to a single CPU which is the case here. If it could run on an arbitrary CPU then this is the problem we have an should seek to resolve.
Not only this smp_processor_id() must not be migrated to another CPU but also refresh_cpu_vm_stats() which might access wrong per-CPU variables. Not to mention that other code relies on the fact that such a worker runs on one specific CPU only.
Therefore revert that commit and we should look instead what broke the affinity mask of the kworker.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504104451.20278-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: Steven J. Hill steven.hill@cavium.com Cc: Tejun Heo htejun@gmail.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- mm/vmstat.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1844,11 +1844,9 @@ static void vmstat_update(struct work_st * to occur in the future. Keep on running the * update worker thread. */ - preempt_disable(); queue_delayed_work_on(smp_processor_id(), mm_percpu_wq, this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work), round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); - preempt_enable(); } }