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struct per_cpu_pages is no longer strictly local as PCP lists can be drained remotely using a lock for protection. While the use of local_lock works, it goes against the intent of local_lock which is for "pure CPU local concurrency control mechanisms and not suited for inter-CPU concurrency control" (Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst) local_lock protects against migration between when the percpu pointer is accessed and the pcp->lock acquired. The lock acquisition is a preemption point so in the worst case, a task could migrate to another NUMA node and accidentally allocate remote memory. The main requirement is to pin the task to a CPU that is suitable for PREEMPT_RT and !PREEMPT_RT. Replace local_lock with helpers that pin a task to a CPU, lookup the per-cpu structure and acquire the embedded lock. It's similar to local_lock without breaking the intent behind the API. It is not a complete API as only the parts needed for PCP-alloc are implemented but in theory, the generic helpers could be promoted to a general API if there was demand for an embedded lock within a per-cpu struct with a guarantee that the per-cpu structure locked matches the running CPU and cannot use get_cpu_var due to RT concerns. PCP requires these semantics to avoid accidentally allocating remote memory. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: use pcp_spin_trylock_irqsave instead of pcpu_spin_trylock_irqsave] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627084645.GA27531@techsingularity.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.