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Syzbot is reporting potential deadlocks due to pagesets.lock when
PAGE_OWNER is enabled.  One example from Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi is as
follows

  __alloc_pages_bulk()
    local_lock_irqsave(&pagesets.lock, flags) <---- outer lock here
    prep_new_page():
      post_alloc_hook():
        set_page_owner():
          __set_page_owner():
            save_stack():
              stack_depot_save():
                alloc_pages():
                  alloc_page_interleave():
                    __alloc_pages():
                      get_page_from_freelist():
                        rm_queue():
                          rm_queue_pcplist():
                            local_lock_irqsave(&pagesets.lock, flags);
                            *** DEADLOCK ***

Zhang, Qiang also reported

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/page_alloc.c:5179
  in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
  .....
  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline]
  dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:96
  ___might_sleep.cold+0x1f1/0x237 kernel/sched/core.c:9153
  prepare_alloc_pages+0x3da/0x580 mm/page_alloc.c:5179
  __alloc_pages+0x12f/0x500 mm/page_alloc.c:5375
  alloc_page_interleave+0x1e/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:2147
  alloc_pages+0x238/0x2a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2270
  stack_depot_save+0x39d/0x4e0 lib/stackdepot.c:303
  save_stack+0x15e/0x1e0 mm/page_owner.c:120
  __set_page_owner+0x50/0x290 mm/page_owner.c:181
  prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2445 [inline]
  __alloc_pages_bulk+0x8b9/0x1870 mm/page_alloc.c:5313
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_node include/linux/gfp.h:557 [inline]
  vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:2775 [inline]
  __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:2845 [inline]
  __vmalloc_node_range+0x39d/0x960 mm/vmalloc.c:2947
  __vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:2996 [inline]
  vzalloc+0x67/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3066

There are a number of ways it could be fixed.  The page owner code could
be audited to strip GFP flags that allow sleeping but it'll impair the
functionality of PAGE_OWNER if allocations fail.  The bulk allocator could
add a special case to release/reacquire the lock for prep_new_page and
lookup PCP after the lock is reacquired at the cost of performance.  The
pages requiring prep could be tracked using the least significant bit and
looping through the array although it is more complicated for the list
interface.  The options are relatively complex and the second one still
incurs a performance penalty when PAGE_OWNER is active so this patch takes
the simple approach -- disable bulk allocation of PAGE_OWNER is active.
The caller will be forced to allocate one page at a time incurring a
performance penalty but PAGE_OWNER is already a performance penalty.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210708081434.GV3840@techsingularity.net
Fixes: dbbee9d5

 ("mm/page_alloc: convert per-cpu list protection to local_lock")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@gmail.com>
Reported-by: "Zhang, Qiang" <Qiang.Zhang@windriver.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+127fd7828d6eeb611703@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+127fd7828d6eeb611703@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>