[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix pgd_lock deadlock

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:26:51PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> With NR_CPUs < 4, or with THP enabled, rmap.c will do
> spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock) (or pte_offset_map_lock where the lock
> is still mm->page_table_lock and not the PT lock). Then it will send
> IPIs to flush the tlb of the other CPUs.
> 
> But the other CPU is running the vmalloc_sync_all, and it is trying to
> take the page_table_lock with irq disabled. It will never take the
> lock because the CPU waiting the IPI delivery holds it. And it will
> never run the IPI because it has irqs disabled.

Ok, that makes sense :)
 
> Now the big question is if anything is taking the pgd_lock from
> irqs. Normal testing could never reveal it as even if it happens it
> has a slim chance to happen while the pgd_lock is already hold by
> normal kernel context. But the VM_BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) should
> hopefully have revealed it already if it ever happened, I hope.
> 
> Clearly we could try to fix it in other ways, but still if there's no
> reason to do the _irqsave this sounds a good idea to apply my fix
> anyway.

Did you try with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, which is calling into cpa quite a
lot?

Thanks,

        tglx


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