mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance
While allocating mmu_notifier with parameter GFP_KERNEL, swap would start
to work in case of tight available memory. Eventually, that would lead to
a deadlock while the swap deamon swaps anonymous pages. It was caused by
commit
e0f3c3f78da29b ("mm/mmu_notifier: init notifier if necessary").
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[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
3.7.0-rc1+ #518 Not tainted
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inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
kswapd0/35 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: page_referenced+0x9c/0x2e0
{RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
mark_held_locks+0x86/0x150
lockdep_trace_alloc+0x67/0xc0
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x33/0x230
do_mmu_notifier_register+0x87/0x180
mmu_notifier_register+0x13/0x20
kvm_dev_ioctl+0x428/0x510
do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x570
sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
irq event stamp: 825
hardirqs last enabled at (825): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
hardirqs last disabled at (824): _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x19/0x80
softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process+0x630/0x17c0
softirqs last disabled at (0): (null)
...
Simply back out the above commit, which was a small performance
optimization.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Andrea Righi <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <[email protected]>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <[email protected]>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Haggai Eran <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>