percpu_counter: add percpu_counter_sum_all interface

The percpu_counter is used for scenarios where performance is more
important than the accuracy.  For percpu_counter users, who want more
accurate information in their slowpath, percpu_counter_sum is provided
which traverses all the online CPUs to accumulate the data.  The reason it
only needs to traverse online CPUs is because percpu_counter does
implement CPU offline callback which syncs the local data of the offlined
CPU.

However there is a small race window between the online CPUs traversal of
percpu_counter_sum and the CPU offline callback.  The offline callback has
to traverse all the percpu_counters on the system to flush the CPU local
data which can be a lot.  During that time, the CPU which is going offline
has already been published as offline to all the readers.  So, as the
offline callback is running, percpu_counter_sum can be called for one
counter which has some state on the CPU going offline.  Since
percpu_counter_sum only traverses online CPUs, it will skip that specific
CPU and the offline callback might not have flushed the state for that
specific percpu_counter on that offlined CPU.

Normally this is not an issue because percpu_counter users can deal with
some inaccuracy for small time window.  However a new user i.e.  mm_struct
on the cleanup path wants to check the exact state of the percpu_counter
through check_mm().  For such users, this patch introduces
percpu_counter_sum_all() which traverses all possible CPUs and it is used
in fork.c:check_mm() to avoid the potential race.

This issue is exposed by the later patch "mm: convert mm's rss stats into
percpu_counter".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221109012011.881058-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0fef202434c36..1be4c4ab7f3e7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -755,6 +755,11 @@ static void check_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
 		long x = percpu_counter_sum(&mm->rss_stat[i]);
 
+		if (likely(!x))
+			continue;
+
+		/* Making sure this is not due to race with CPU offlining. */
+		x = percpu_counter_sum_all(&mm->rss_stat[i]);
 		if (unlikely(x))
 			pr_alert("BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:%p type:%s val:%ld\n",
 				 mm, resident_page_types[i], x);