slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context
slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context.
However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy
is first freed and then the pointer zeroed.
Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt
will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random
mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change.
Just disable this here and always use local for slab
from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit
which always passed the same argument.
I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact,
so it's likely a regression.
v2: send version with correct logic
v3: simplify. fix typo.
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: penberg@kernel.org
Cc: cl@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from
cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference]
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index fc4a774..dd607a8 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@
if (cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() && (cachep->flags & SLAB_MEM_SPREAD))
nid_alloc = cpuset_slab_spread_node();
else if (current->mempolicy)
- nid_alloc = slab_node(current->mempolicy);
+ nid_alloc = slab_node();
if (nid_alloc != nid_here)
return ____cache_alloc_node(cachep, flags, nid_alloc);
return NULL;
@@ -3342,7 +3342,7 @@
retry_cpuset:
cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed();
- zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(current->mempolicy), flags);
+ zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(), flags);
retry:
/*