From f689054aace2ff13af2e9a44a74fbba650ca31ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shakeel Butt Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 01:20:11 +0000 Subject: percpu_counter: add percpu_counter_sum_all interface The percpu_counter is used for scenarios where performance is more important than the accuracy. For percpu_counter users, who want more accurate information in their slowpath, percpu_counter_sum is provided which traverses all the online CPUs to accumulate the data. The reason it only needs to traverse online CPUs is because percpu_counter does implement CPU offline callback which syncs the local data of the offlined CPU. However there is a small race window between the online CPUs traversal of percpu_counter_sum and the CPU offline callback. The offline callback has to traverse all the percpu_counters on the system to flush the CPU local data which can be a lot. During that time, the CPU which is going offline has already been published as offline to all the readers. So, as the offline callback is running, percpu_counter_sum can be called for one counter which has some state on the CPU going offline. Since percpu_counter_sum only traverses online CPUs, it will skip that specific CPU and the offline callback might not have flushed the state for that specific percpu_counter on that offlined CPU. Normally this is not an issue because percpu_counter users can deal with some inaccuracy for small time window. However a new user i.e. mm_struct on the cleanup path wants to check the exact state of the percpu_counter through check_mm(). For such users, this patch introduces percpu_counter_sum_all() which traverses all possible CPUs and it is used in fork.c:check_mm() to avoid the potential race. This issue is exposed by the later patch "mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109012011.881058-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/fork.c') diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 0fef202434c3..1be4c4ab7f3e 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -755,6 +755,11 @@ static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) { long x = percpu_counter_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]); + if (likely(!x)) + continue; + + /* Making sure this is not due to race with CPU offlining. */ + x = percpu_counter_sum_all(&mm->rss_stat[i]); if (unlikely(x)) pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld\n", mm, resident_page_types[i], x); -- cgit v1.2.3