From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:46:10 -0800 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH v6 16/16] mm: Use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path In-Reply-To: <20200217184613.19668-1-willy@infradead.org> References: <20200217184613.19668-1-willy@infradead.org> Message-ID: <20200217184613.19668-30-willy@infradead.org> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Ensure that memory allocations in the readahead path do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages, which could lead to a deadlock. It is possible, though unlikely this is the root cause of a problem observed by Cong Wang. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reported-by: Cong Wang Suggested-by: Michal Hocko --- mm/readahead.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index 566693f4e539..ae8abab939a3 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "internal.h" @@ -157,6 +158,18 @@ void page_cache_readahead_limit(struct address_space *mapping, ._nr_pages = 0, }; + /* + * Partway through the readahead operation, we will have added + * locked pages to the page cache, but will not yet have submitted + * them for I/O. Adding another page may need to allocate memory, + * which can trigger memory reclaim. Telling the VM we're in + * the middle of a filesystem operation will cause it to not + * touch file-backed pages, preventing a deadlock. Most (all?) + * filesystems already specify __GFP_NOFS in their mapping's + * gfp_mask, but let's be explicit here. + */ + unsigned int nofs = memalloc_nofs_save(); + /* * Preallocate as many pages as we will need. */ @@ -210,6 +223,7 @@ void page_cache_readahead_limit(struct address_space *mapping, if (readahead_count(&rac)) read_pages(&rac, &page_pool); BUG_ON(!list_empty(&page_pool)); + memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_cache_readahead_limit); -- 2.25.0