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    mm: drop hotplug lock from lru_add_drain_all() · 9852a721
    Michal Hocko authored
    Pulling cpu hotplug locks inside the mm core function like
    lru_add_drain_all just asks for problems and the recent lockdep splat
    [1] just proves this.  While the usage in that particular case might be
    wrong we should avoid the locking as lru_add_drain_all() is used in many
    places.  It seems that this is not all that hard to achieve actually.
    
    We have done the same thing for drain_all_pages which is analogous by
    commit a459eeb7 ("mm, page_alloc: do not depend on cpu hotplug locks
    inside the allocator").  All we have to care about is to handle
    
          - the work item might be executed on a different cpu in worker from
            unbound pool so it doesn't run on pinned on the cpu
    
          - we have to make sure that we do not race with page_alloc_cpu_dead
            calling lru_add_drain_cpu
    
    the first part is already handled because the worker calls lru_add_drain
    which disables preemption when calling lru_add_drain_cpu on the local
    cpu it is draining.  The later is true because page_alloc_cpu_dead is
    called on the controlling CPU after the hotplugged CPU vanished
    completely.
    
    [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/089e0825eec8955c1f055c83d476@google.com
    
    [add a cpu hotplug locking interaction as per tglx]
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171116120535.23765-1-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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