[PATCH 1/3] mm: Check if mmu notifier callbacks are allowed to fail

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 22-11-18 17:51:04, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Just a bit of paranoia, since if we start pushing this deep into
> callchains it's hard to spot all places where an mmu notifier
> implementation might fail when it's not allowed to.

What does WARN give you more than the existing pr_info? Is really
backtrace that interesting?

> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse at redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/mmu_notifier.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mmu_notifier.c b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
> index 5119ff846769..59e102589a25 100644
> --- a/mm/mmu_notifier.c
> +++ b/mm/mmu_notifier.c
> @@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ int __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  				pr_info("%pS callback failed with %d in %sblockable context.\n",
>  						mn->ops->invalidate_range_start, _ret,
>  						!blockable ? "non-" : "");
> +				WARN(blockable,"%pS callback failure not allowed\n",
> +				     mn->ops->invalidate_range_start);
>  				ret = _ret;
>  			}
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.19.1
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs