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-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h23
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h4
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 4fa360a13c1e..d83d403dac2e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -217,7 +217,9 @@ extern void __cant_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset);
* might_sleep - annotation for functions that can sleep
*
* this macro will print a stack trace if it is executed in an atomic
- * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...).
+ * context (spinlock, irq-handler, ...). Additional sections where blocking is
+ * not allowed can be annotated with non_block_start() and non_block_end()
+ * pairs.
*
* This is a useful debugging help to be able to catch problems early and not
* be bitten later when the calling function happens to sleep when it is not
@@ -233,6 +235,23 @@ extern void __cant_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset);
# define cant_sleep() \
do { __cant_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, 0); } while (0)
# define sched_annotate_sleep() (current->task_state_change = 0)
+/**
+ * non_block_start - annotate the start of section where sleeping is prohibited
+ *
+ * This is on behalf of the oom reaper, specifically when it is calling the mmu
+ * notifiers. The problem is that if the notifier were to block on, for example,
+ * mutex_lock() and if the process which holds that mutex were to perform a
+ * sleeping memory allocation, the oom reaper is now blocked on completion of
+ * that memory allocation. Other blocking calls like wait_event() pose similar
+ * issues.
+ */
+# define non_block_start() (current->non_block_count++)
+/**
+ * non_block_end - annotate the end of section where sleeping is prohibited
+ *
+ * Closes a section opened by non_block_start().
+ */
+# define non_block_end() WARN_ON(current->non_block_count-- == 0)
#else
static inline void ___might_sleep(const char *file, int line,
int preempt_offset) { }
@@ -241,6 +260,8 @@ extern void __cant_sleep(const char *file, int line, int preempt_offset);
# define might_sleep() do { might_resched(); } while (0)
# define cant_sleep() do { } while (0)
# define sched_annotate_sleep() do { } while (0)
+# define non_block_start() do { } while (0)
+# define non_block_end() do { } while (0)
#endif
#define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 9f51932bd543..c5630f3dca1f 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -974,6 +974,10 @@ struct task_struct {
struct mutex_waiter *blocked_on;
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
+ int non_block_count;
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
unsigned int irq_events;
unsigned long hardirq_enable_ip;
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