tree 7cc3af22f0c3ccab1cd545cb340e9b4b8e61f12a
parent 5e8ec55860dc04932c50cd7787fc7b271227778c
author Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> 1511353879 -0500
committer Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org> 1522775854 +0200

Revert "memcontrol: Prevent scheduling while atomic in cgroup code"

The commit "memcontrol: Prevent scheduling while atomic in cgroup code"
fixed this issue:

       refill_stock()
          get_cpu_var()
          drain_stock()
             res_counter_uncharge()
                res_counter_uncharge_until()
                   spin_lock() <== boom

But commit 3e32cb2e0a12b ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters") replaced
the calls to res_counter_uncharge() in drain_stock() to the lockless
function page_counter_uncharge(). There is no more spin lock there and no
more reason to have that local lock.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Haiyang HY1 Tan <tanhy1@lenovo.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[bigeasy: That upstream commit appeared in v3.19 and the patch in
  question in v3.18.7-rt2 and v3.18 seems still to be maintained. So I
  guess that v3.18 would need the locallocks that we are about to remove
  here. I am not sure if any earlier versions have the patch
  backported.
  The stable tag here is because Haiyang reported (and debugged) a crash
  in 4.4-RT with this patch applied (which has get_cpu_light() instead
  the locallocks it gained in v4.9-RT).
  https://lkml.kernel.org/r/05AA4EC5C6EC1D48BE2CDCFF3AE0B8A637F78A15@CNMAILEX04.lenovo.com
]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>