mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node

With the preempt checking logic for __this_cpu_ops we will get false
positives from locations in the code that use numa_node_id.

Before the __this_cpu ops where introduced there were no checks for
preemption present either.  smp_raw_processor_id() was used.  See

  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-numa/msg00641.html

Therefore we need to use raw_cpu_read here to avoid false postives.

Note that this issue has been discussed in prior years.  If the process
changes nodes after retrieving the current numa node then that is
acceptable since most uses of numa_node etc are for optimization and not
for correctness.

There were suggestions to implement a raw_numa_node_id in order to do
preempt checks for numa_node_id as well.  But I think we better defer
that to another patch since that would mean investigating how
numa_node_id() is used throughout the kernel which would increase the
scope of this patchset significantly.  After all preemption was never
checked before when numa_node_id() was used.

Some sample traces:

__this_cpu_read operation in preemptible [00000000] code: login/1456
caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
CPU: 0 PID: 1456 Comm: login Not tainted 3.12.0-rc4-cl-00062-g2fe80d3-dirty #185
Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
  check_preemption_disabled+0xc5/0xe0
  __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
  get_task_policy+0x1d/0x49
  get_vma_policy+0x14/0x76
  alloc_pages_vma+0x35/0xff
  handle_mm_fault+0x290/0x73b
  __do_page_fault+0x3fe/0x44d
  do_page_fault+0x9/0xc
  page_fault+0x22/0x30
  generic_file_aio_read+0x38e/0x624
  do_sync_read+0x54/0x73
  vfs_read+0x9d/0x12a
  SyS_read+0x47/0x7e
  cstar_dispatch+0x7/0x23

caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
CPU: 0 PID: 1456 Comm: login Not tainted 3.12.0-rc4-cl-00062-g2fe80d3-dirty #185
Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
  check_preemption_disabled+0xc5/0xe0
  __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d
  alloc_pages_current+0x8f/0xbc
  __page_cache_alloc+0xb/0xd
  __do_page_cache_readahead+0xf4/0x219
  ra_submit+0x1c/0x20
  ondemand_readahead+0x28c/0x2b4
  page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a
  generic_file_aio_read+0x261/0x624
  do_sync_read+0x54/0x73
  vfs_read+0x9d/0x12a
  SyS_read+0x47/0x7e
  cstar_dispatch+0x7/0x23

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index 12ae6ce997d6be..7062330a132961 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, numa_node);
 /* Returns the number of the current Node. */
 static inline int numa_node_id(void)
 {
-	return __this_cpu_read(numa_node);
+	return raw_cpu_read(numa_node);
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static inline void set_numa_mem(int node)
 /* Returns the number of the nearest Node with memory */
 static inline int numa_mem_id(void)
 {
-	return __this_cpu_read(_numa_mem_);
+	return raw_cpu_read(_numa_mem_);
 }
 #endif