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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: [ 10/23] mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop()
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:19:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120726211406.798340041@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120726211405.959857593@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@gmail.com>

commit 1c7e7f6c0703d03af6bcd5ccc11fc15d23e5ecbe upstream.

Offlining memory may block forever, waiting for kswapd() to wake up
because kswapd() does not check the event kthread->should_stop before
sleeping.

The proper pattern, from Documentation/memory-barriers.txt, is:

   ---  waker  ---
   event_indicated = 1;
   wake_up_process(event_daemon);

   ---  sleeper  ---
   for (;;) {
      set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
      if (event_indicated)
         break;
      schedule();
   }

   set_current_state() may be wrapped by:
      prepare_to_wait();

In the kswapd() case, event_indicated is kthread->should_stop.

  === offlining memory (waker) ===
   kswapd_stop()
      kthread_stop()
         kthread->should_stop = 1
         wake_up_process()
         wait_for_completion()

  ===  kswapd_try_to_sleep (sleeper) ===
   kswapd_try_to_sleep()
      prepare_to_wait()
           .
           .
      schedule()
           .
           .
      finish_wait()

The schedule() needs to be protected by a test of kthread->should_stop,
which is wrapped by kthread_should_stop().

Reproducer:
   Do heavy file I/O in background.
   Do a memory offline/online in a tight loop

Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3013,7 +3013,10 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_
 		 * them before going back to sleep.
 		 */
 		set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold);
-		schedule();
+
+		if (!kthread_should_stop())
+			schedule();
+
 		set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold);
 	} else {
 		if (remaining)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-26 21:14 [ 00/23] 3.4.7-stable review Greg KH
2012-07-26 21:19 ` [ 01/23] md: avoid crash when stopping md array races with closing other open fds Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 02/23] md/raid1: close some possible races on write errors during resync Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 03/23] cifs: always update the inode cache with the results from a FIND_* Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 04/23] cifs: on CONFIG_HIGHMEM machines, limit the rsize/wsize to the kmap space Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 05/23] target: Clean up returning errors in PR handling code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 06/23] target: Fix range calculation in WRITE SAME emulation when num blocks == 0 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 07/23] ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 08/23] tcm_fc: Fix crash seen with aborts and large reads Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 09/23] ext4: fix duplicated mnt_drop_write call in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 11/23] HID: add battery quirk for Apple Wireless ANSI Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 12/23] HID: add Sennheiser BTD500USB device support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 13/23] HID: multitouch: Add support for Baanto touchscreen Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 14/23] MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 15/23] UBIFS: fix a bug in empty space fix-up Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 16/23] ore: Fix NFS crash by supporting any unaligned RAID IO Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 17/23] ore: Remove support of partial IO request (NFS crash) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 18/23] pnfs-obj: dont leak objio_state if ore_write/read fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 19/23] dm thin: do not send discards to shared blocks Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:19   ` [ 20/23] dm raid1: fix crash with mirror recovery and discard Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:20   ` [ 21/23] dm raid1: set discard_zeroes_data_unsupported Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:20   ` [ 22/23] ARM: SAMSUNG: Update default rate for xusbxti clock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-26 21:20   ` [ 23/23] cifs: when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set, serialize the read/write kmaps Greg Kroah-Hartman

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