On Mon 01-03-21 08:39:22, Shakeel Butt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 7:57 AM Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> wrote: [...] > > Then how come this can ever be a problem? in_task() should exclude soft > > irq context unless I am mistaken. > > > > If I take the following example of syzbot's deadlock scenario then > CPU1 is the one freeing the hugetlb pages. It is in the process > context but has disabled softirqs (see __tcp_close()). > > CPU0 CPU1 > ---- ---- > lock(hugetlb_lock); > local_irq_disable(); > lock(slock-AF_INET); > lock(hugetlb_lock); > <Interrupt> > lock(slock-AF_INET); > > So, this deadlock scenario is very much possible.
OK, I see the point now. I was focusing on the IRQ context and hugetlb side too much. We do not need to be freeing from there. All it takes is to get a dependency chain over a common lock held here. Thanks for bearing with me. Let's see whether we can make hugetlb_lock irq safe. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
