[PATCH v5 3/8] hugetlb: add per-hstate mutex to synchronize user adjustments

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 16:54:05 EST


The helper routine hstate_next_node_to_alloc accesses and modifies the
hstate variable next_nid_to_alloc. The helper is used by the routines
alloc_pool_huge_page and adjust_pool_surplus. adjust_pool_surplus is
called with hugetlb_lock held. However, alloc_pool_huge_page can not
be called with the hugetlb lock held as it will call the page allocator.
Two instances of alloc_pool_huge_page could be run in parallel or
alloc_pool_huge_page could run in parallel with adjust_pool_surplus
which may result in the variable next_nid_to_alloc becoming invalid
for the caller and pages being allocated on the wrong node.

Both alloc_pool_huge_page and adjust_pool_surplus are only called from
the routine set_max_huge_pages after boot. set_max_huge_pages is only
called as the reusult of a user writing to the proc/sysfs nr_hugepages,
or nr_hugepages_mempolicy file to adjust the number of hugetlb pages.

It makes little sense to allow multiple adjustment to the number of
hugetlb pages in parallel. Add a mutex to the hstate and use it to only
allow one hugetlb page adjustment at a time. This will synchronize
modifications to the next_nid_to_alloc variable.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 +
mm/hugetlb.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index a7f7d5f328dc..09f1fd12a6fa 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ HPAGEFLAG(Freed, freed)
#define HSTATE_NAME_LEN 32
/* Defines one hugetlb page size */
struct hstate {
+ struct mutex resize_lock;
int next_nid_to_alloc;
int next_nid_to_free;
unsigned int order;
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 3a10b96a2124..c8799a480784 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2615,6 +2615,11 @@ static int set_max_huge_pages(struct hstate *h, unsigned long count, int nid,
else
return -ENOMEM;

+ /*
+ * resize_lock mutex prevents concurrent adjustments to number of
+ * pages in hstate via the proc/sysfs interfaces.
+ */
+ mutex_lock(&h->resize_lock);
spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);

/*
@@ -2647,6 +2652,7 @@ static int set_max_huge_pages(struct hstate *h, unsigned long count, int nid,
if (hstate_is_gigantic(h) && !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC)) {
if (count > persistent_huge_pages(h)) {
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&h->resize_lock);
NODEMASK_FREE(node_alloc_noretry);
return -EINVAL;
}
@@ -2721,6 +2727,7 @@ static int set_max_huge_pages(struct hstate *h, unsigned long count, int nid,
out:
h->max_huge_pages = persistent_huge_pages(h);
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&h->resize_lock);

NODEMASK_FREE(node_alloc_noretry);

@@ -3208,6 +3215,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_add_hstate(unsigned int order)
BUG_ON(hugetlb_max_hstate >= HUGE_MAX_HSTATE);
BUG_ON(order == 0);
h = &hstates[hugetlb_max_hstate++];
+ mutex_init(&h->resize_lock);
h->order = order;
h->mask = ~(huge_page_size(h) - 1);
for (i = 0; i < MAX_NUMNODES; ++i)
--
2.30.2