percpu: fix iteration to prevent skipping over block
authorDennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 21:35:00 +0000 (16:35 -0500)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:39:27 +0000 (07:39 -0700)
The iterator functions pcpu_next_md_free_region and
pcpu_next_fit_region use the block offset to determine if they have
checked the area in the prior iteration. However, this causes an issue
when the block offset is greater than subsequent block contig hints. If
within the iterator it moves to check subsequent blocks, it may fail in
the second predicate due to the block offset not being cleared. Thus,
this causes the allocator to skip over blocks leading to false failures
when allocating from the reserved chunk. While this happens in the
general case as well, it will only fail if it cannot allocate a new
chunk.

This patch resets the block offset to 0 to pass the second predicate
when checking subseqent blocks within the iterator function.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
mm/percpu.c

index 59d44d61f5f198b26be07ff264395a6b30cc091d..aa121cef76de338441f3dbcf5e3e0d1de9f0aebf 100644 (file)
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ static void pcpu_next_md_free_region(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int *bit_off,
                                        block->contig_hint_start);
                        return;
                }
+               /* reset to satisfy the second predicate above */
+               block_off = 0;
 
                *bits = block->right_free;
                *bit_off = (i + 1) * PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_BITS - block->right_free;
@@ -407,6 +409,8 @@ static void pcpu_next_fit_region(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, int alloc_bits,
                        *bit_off = pcpu_block_off_to_off(i, block->first_free);
                        return;
                }
+               /* reset to satisfy the second predicate above */
+               block_off = 0;
 
                *bit_off = ALIGN(PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_BITS - block->right_free,
                                 align);