mm: move migrate_prep out from under mmap_sem

Move the migrate_prep outside the mmap_sem for the following system calls

1. sys_move_pages
2. sys_migrate_pages
3. sys_mbind()

It really does not matter when we flush the lru.  The system is free to
add pages onto the lru even during migration which will make the page
migration either skip the page (mbind, migrate_pages) or return a busy
state (move_pages).

Fixes this lockdep warning (and potential deadlock):

Some VM place has
      mmap_sem -> kevent_wq via lru_add_drain_all()

net/core/dev.c::dev_ioctl()  has
     rtnl_lock  ->  mmap_sem        (*) the ioctl has copy_from_user() and it can do page fault.

linkwatch_event has
     kevent_wq -> rtnl_lock

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 36f4257..e9493b1 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -489,12 +489,6 @@ check_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 	int err;
 	struct vm_area_struct *first, *vma, *prev;
 
-	if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL)) {
-
-		err = migrate_prep();
-		if (err)
-			return ERR_PTR(err);
-	}
 
 	first = find_vma(mm, start);
 	if (!first)
@@ -809,9 +803,13 @@ int do_migrate_pages(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	const nodemask_t *from_nodes, const nodemask_t *to_nodes, int flags)
 {
 	int busy = 0;
-	int err = 0;
+	int err;
 	nodemask_t tmp;
 
+	err = migrate_prep();
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 
 	err = migrate_vmas(mm, from_nodes, to_nodes, flags);
@@ -974,6 +972,12 @@ static long do_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
 		 start, start + len, mode, mode_flags,
 		 nmask ? nodes_addr(*nmask)[0] : -1);
 
+	if (flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL)) {
+
+		err = migrate_prep();
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	}
 	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	vma = check_range(mm, start, end, nmask,
 			  flags | MPOL_MF_INVERT, &pagelist);