mm: introduce dedicated WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue to do lru_add_drain_all

This patch is based on https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/574623/.

Tejun submitted commit 23d11a58a9a6 ("workqueue: skip flush dependency
checks for legacy workqueues") for the legacy create*_workqueue()
interface.

But some workq created by alloc_workqueue still reports warning on
memory reclaim, e.g nvme_workq with flag WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set:

    workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM nvme:nvme_reset_work is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:lru_add_drain_per_cpu
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6 at SoC/linux/kernel/workqueue.c:2448 check_flush_dependency+0xb4/0x10c
    ...
    check_flush_dependency+0xb4/0x10c
    flush_work+0x54/0x140
    lru_add_drain_all+0x138/0x188
    migrate_prep+0xc/0x18
    alloc_contig_range+0xf4/0x350
    cma_alloc+0xec/0x1e4
    dma_alloc_from_contiguous+0x38/0x40
    __dma_alloc+0x74/0x25c
    nvme_alloc_queue+0xcc/0x36c
    nvme_reset_work+0x5c4/0xda8
    process_one_work+0x128/0x2ec
    worker_thread+0x58/0x434
    kthread+0xd4/0xe8
    ret_from_fork+0x10/0x50

That's because lru_add_drain_all() will schedule the drain work on
system_wq, whose flag is set to 0, !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.

Introduce a dedicated WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue to do
lru_add_drain_all(), aiding in getting memory freed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464917521-9775-1-git-send-email-shhuiw@foxmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@foxmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 9591614..59f5faf 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -667,6 +667,24 @@ static void lru_add_drain_per_cpu(struct work_struct *dummy)
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, lru_add_drain_work);
 
+/*
+ * lru_add_drain_wq is used to do lru_add_drain_all() from a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
+ * workqueue, aiding in getting memory freed.
+ */
+static struct workqueue_struct *lru_add_drain_wq;
+
+static int __init lru_init(void)
+{
+	lru_add_drain_wq = alloc_workqueue("lru-add-drain", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+
+	if (WARN(!lru_add_drain_wq,
+		"Failed to create workqueue lru_add_drain_wq"))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(lru_init);
+
 void lru_add_drain_all(void)
 {
 	static DEFINE_MUTEX(lock);
@@ -686,7 +704,7 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void)
 		    pagevec_count(&per_cpu(lru_deactivate_pvecs, cpu)) ||
 		    need_activate_page_drain(cpu)) {
 			INIT_WORK(work, lru_add_drain_per_cpu);
-			schedule_work_on(cpu, work);
+			queue_work_on(cpu, lru_add_drain_wq, work);
 			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &has_work);
 		}
 	}