Revert mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption BUG

commit 28557cc106e6d2aa8b8c5c7687ea9f8055ff3911 upstream.

Revert commit c7f26ccfb2c3 ("mm/vmstat.c: fix vmstat_update() preemption
BUG").  Steven saw a "using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" message
and added a preempt_disable() section around it to keep it quiet.  This
is not the right thing to do it does not fix the real problem.

vmstat_update() is invoked by a kworker on a specific CPU.  This worker
it bound to this CPU.  The name of the worker was "kworker/1:1" so it
should have been a worker which was bound to CPU1.  A worker which can
run on any CPU would have a `u' before the first digit.

smp_processor_id() can be used in a preempt-enabled region as long as
the task is bound to a single CPU which is the case here.  If it could
run on an arbitrary CPU then this is the problem we have an should seek
to resolve.

Not only this smp_processor_id() must not be migrated to another CPU but
also refresh_cpu_vm_stats() which might access wrong per-CPU variables.
Not to mention that other code relies on the fact that such a worker
runs on one specific CPU only.

Therefore revert that commit and we should look instead what broke the
affinity mask of the kworker.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504104451.20278-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index e085b13c572e63f4657355d76c11e719cae98fbc..4bb13e72ac97c58e98cc77227a5107cd2c34c471 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1770,11 +1770,9 @@ static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w)
                 * to occur in the future. Keep on running the
                 * update worker thread.
                 */
-               preempt_disable();
                queue_delayed_work_on(smp_processor_id(), mm_percpu_wq,
                                this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work),
                                round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval));
-               preempt_enable();
        }
 }