Re: [PATCH 7/7] mm/page_alloc: Replace local_lock with normal spinlock

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jun 15 2022 - 19:04:53 EST


On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:48:55 +0200 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the logs I see lots of errors like:
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:274
>
> BUG: scheduling while atomic: systemd-udevd/288/0x00000002
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/filemap.c:2647
>
> however there are also a fatal ones like:
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000017a87b4
>
>
> The issues seems to be a bit random. Looks like memory trashing.
> Reverting $subject on top of current linux-next fixes all those issues.
>
>

This?

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-replace-local_lock-with-normal-spinlock-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -183,8 +183,10 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock)
type *_ret; \
pcpu_task_pin(); \
_ret = this_cpu_ptr(ptr); \
- if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&_ret->member, flags)) \
+ if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&_ret->member, flags)) { \
+ pcpu_task_unpin(); \
_ret = NULL; \
+ } \
_ret; \
})


I'll drop Mel's patch for next -next.