In some special cases we must not block, but there's not a spinlock, preempt-off, irqs-off or similar critical section already that arms the might_sleep() debug checks. Add a non_block_start/end() pair to annotate these.
This will be used in the oom paths of mmu-notifiers, where blocking is not allowed to make sure there's forward progress. Quoting Michal:
"The notifier is called from quite a restricted context - oom_reaper - which shouldn't depend on any locks or sleepable conditionals. The code should be swift as well but we mostly do care about it to make a forward progress. Checking for sleepable context is the best thing we could come up with that would describe these demands at least partially."
Peter also asked whether we want to catch spinlocks on top, but Michal said those are less of a problem because spinlocks can't have an indirect dependency upon the page allocator and hence close the loop with the oom reaper.
Suggested by Michal Hocko.
v2: - Improve commit message (Michal) - Also check in schedule, not just might_sleep (Peter)
v3: It works better when I actually squash in the fixup I had lying around :-/
v4: Pick the suggestion from Andrew Morton to give non_block_start/end some good kerneldoc comments. I added that other blocking calls like wait_event pose similar issues, since that's the other example we discussed.
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe jgg@ziepe.ca Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Cc: "Christian König" christian.koenig@amd.com Cc: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" jglisse@redhat.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Cc: Wei Wang wvw@google.com Cc: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Feng Tang feng.tang@intel.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Christian König christian.koenig@amd.com (v1) Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@intel.com --- include/linux/kernel.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/sched.h | 4 ++++ kernel/sched/core.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 4fa360a13c1e..82f84cfe372f 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -217,7 +217,9 @@ extern void __cant_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset); * might_sleep - annotation for functions that can sleep * * this macro will print a stack trace if it is executed in an atomic - * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...). + * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...). Additional sections where blocking is + * not allowed can be annotated with non_block_start() and non_block_end() + * pairs. * * This is a useful debugging help to be able to catch problems early and not * be bitten later when the calling function happens to sleep when it is not @@ -233,6 +235,25 @@ extern void __cant_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset); # define cant_sleep() \ do { __cant_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0); } while (0) # define sched_annotate_sleep() (current->task_state_change = 0) +/** + * non_block_start - annotate the start of section where sleeping is prohibited + * + * This is on behalf of the oom reaper, specifically when it is calling the mmu + * notifiers. The problem is that if the notifier were to block on, for example, + * mutex_lock() and if the process which holds that mutex were to perform a + * sleeping memory allocation, the oom reaper is now blocked on completion of + * that memory allocation. Other blocking calls like wait_event() pose similar + * issues. + */ +# define non_block_start() \ + do { current->non_block_count++; } while (0) +/** + * non_block_end - annotate the end of section where sleeping is prohibited + * + * Closes a section opened by non_block_start(). + */ +# define non_block_end() \ + do { WARN_ON(current->non_block_count-- == 0); } while (0) #else static inline void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset) { } @@ -241,6 +262,8 @@ extern void __cant_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset); # define might_sleep() do { might_resched(); } while (0) # define cant_sleep() do { } while (0) # define sched_annotate_sleep() do { } while (0) +# define non_block_start() do { } while (0) +# define non_block_end() do { } while (0) #endif
#define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 9f51932bd543..c5630f3dca1f 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -974,6 +974,10 @@ struct task_struct { struct mutex_waiter *blocked_on; #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP + int non_block_count; +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS unsigned int irq_events; unsigned long hardirq_enable_ip; diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 2b037f195473..57245770d6cc 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3700,13 +3700,22 @@ static noinline void __schedule_bug(struct task_struct *prev) /* * Various schedule()-time debugging checks and statistics: */ -static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev) +static inline void schedule_debug(struct task_struct *prev, bool preempt) { #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK if (task_stack_end_corrupted(prev)) panic("corrupted stack end detected inside scheduler\n"); #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP + if (!preempt && prev->state && prev->non_block_count) { + printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: scheduling in a non-blocking section: %s/%d/%i\n", + prev->comm, prev->pid, prev->non_block_count); + dump_stack(); + add_taint(TAINT_WARN, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK); + } +#endif + if (unlikely(in_atomic_preempt_off())) { __schedule_bug(prev); preempt_count_set(PREEMPT_DISABLED); @@ -3813,7 +3822,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt) rq = cpu_rq(cpu); prev = rq->curr;
- schedule_debug(prev); + schedule_debug(prev, preempt);
if (sched_feat(HRTICK)) hrtick_clear(rq); @@ -6570,7 +6579,7 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset) rcu_sleep_check();
if ((preempt_count_equals(preempt_offset) && !irqs_disabled() && - !is_idle_task(current)) || + !is_idle_task(current) && !current->non_block_count) || system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING || system_state > SYSTEM_RUNNING || oops_in_progress) return; @@ -6586,8 +6595,8 @@ void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset) "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at %s:%d\n", file, line); printk(KERN_ERR - "in_atomic(): %d, irqs_disabled(): %d, pid: %d, name: %s\n", - in_atomic(), irqs_disabled(), + "in_atomic(): %d, irqs_disabled(): %d, non_block: %d, pid: %d, name: %s\n", + in_atomic(), irqs_disabled(), current->non_block_count, current->pid, current->comm);
if (task_stack_end_corrupted(current))