mm: lru_cache_disable: replace work queue synchronization with synchronize_rcu
On systems that run FIFO:1 applications that busy loop, any SCHED_OTHER task that attempts to execute on such a CPU (such as work threads) will not be scheduled, which leads to system hangs. Commit d479960e ("mm: disable LRU pagevec during the migration temporarily") relies on queueing work items on all online CPUs to ensure visibility of lru_disable_count. To fix this, replace the usage of work items with synchronize_rcu, which provides the same guarantees. Readers of lru_disable_count are protected by either disabling preemption or rcu_read_lock: preempt_disable, local_irq_disable [bh_lru_lock()] rcu_read_lock [rt_spin_lock CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT] preempt_disable [local_lock !CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT] Since v5.1 kernel, synchronize_rcu() is guaranteed to wait on preempt_disable() regions of code. So any CPU which sees lru_disable_count = 0 will have exited the critical section when synchronize_rcu() returns. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yin7hDxdt0s/x+fp@fuller.cnetSigned-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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