From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx201.postini.com [74.125.245.201]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89D416B0033 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 18:50:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Rafael Aquini Subject: [PATCH v2] swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 19:49:34 -0300 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <2434dea05a7fda7e7ccf48f70124bd65f2556b2d.1369935749.git.aquini@redhat.com> References: <2434dea05a7fda7e7ccf48f70124bd65f2556b2d.1369935749.git.aquini@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com, shli@kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, lwoodman@redhat.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com read_swap_cache_async() can race against get_swap_page(), and stumble across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry in the swap map whose page wasn't brought into the swapcache yet. This transient swap_map state is expected to be transitory, but the actual placement of discard at scan_swap_map() inserts a wait for I/O completion thus making the thread at read_swap_cache_async() to loop around its -EEXIST case, while the other end at get_swap_page() is scheduled away at scan_swap_map(). This can leave the system deadlocked if the I/O completion happens to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where read_swap_cache_async() is busy looping and !CONFIG_PREEMPT. This patch introduces a cond_resched() call to make the aforementioned read_swap_cache_async() busy loop condition to bail out when necessary, thus avoiding the subtle race window. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- Changelog: * fixed typos in commit message; (hannes) * enhanced the commentary on the deadlock scenario; (hannes) * include the received ACKs and Cc: stable mm/swap_state.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index b3d40dc..f24ab0d 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -336,8 +336,24 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, * Swap entry may have been freed since our caller observed it. */ err = swapcache_prepare(entry); - if (err == -EEXIST) { /* seems racy */ + if (err == -EEXIST) { radix_tree_preload_end(); + /* + * We might race against get_swap_page() and stumble + * across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE swap_map entry whose page + * has not been brought into the swapcache yet, while + * the other end is scheduled away waiting on discard + * I/O completion at scan_swap_map(). + * + * In order to avoid turning this transitory state + * into a permanent loop around this -EEXIST case + * if !CONFIG_PREEMPT and the I/O completion happens + * to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where we are now + * busy looping, we just conditionally invoke the + * scheduler here, if there are some more important + * tasks to run. + */ + cond_resched(); continue; } if (err) { /* swp entry is obsolete ? */ -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org