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>
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