Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] fs/dcache.c: fix spin lockup issue on nlru->lock

Vladimir Davydov
2017-07-01T16:29:01Z

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:09:35AM +0530, Sahitya Tummala wrote:
> __list_lru_walk_one() acquires nlru spin lock (nlru->lock) for
> longer duration if there are more number of items in the lru list.
> As per the current code, it can hold the spin lock for upto maximum
> UINT_MAX entries at a time. So if there are more number of items in
> the lru list, then "BUG: spinlock lockup suspected" is observed in
> the below path -
>
> [<ffffff8eca0fb0bc>] spin_bug+0x90
> [<ffffff8eca0fb220>] do_raw_spin_lock+0xfc
> [<ffffff8ecafb7798>] _raw_spin_lock+0x28
> [<ffffff8eca1ae884>] list_lru_add+0x28
> [<ffffff8eca1f5dac>] dput+0x1c8
> [<ffffff8eca1eb46c>] path_put+0x20
> [<ffffff8eca1eb73c>] terminate_walk+0x3c
> [<ffffff8eca1eee58>] path_lookupat+0x100
> [<ffffff8eca1f00fc>] filename_lookup+0x6c
> [<ffffff8eca1f0264>] user_path_at_empty+0x54
> [<ffffff8eca1e066c>] SyS_faccessat+0xd0
> [<ffffff8eca084e30>] el0_svc_naked+0x24
>
> This nlru->lock is acquired by another CPU in this path -
>
> [<ffffff8eca1f5fd0>] d_lru_shrink_move+0x34
> [<ffffff8eca1f6180>] dentry_lru_isolate_shrink+0x48
> [<ffffff8eca1aeafc>] __list_lru_walk_one.isra.10+0x94
> [<ffffff8eca1aec34>] list_lru_walk_node+0x40
> [<ffffff8eca1f6620>] shrink_dcache_sb+0x60
> [<ffffff8eca1e56a8>] do_remount_sb+0xbc
> [<ffffff8eca1e583c>] do_emergency_remount+0xb0
> [<ffffff8eca0ba510>] process_one_work+0x228
> [<ffffff8eca0bb158>] worker_thread+0x2e0
> [<ffffff8eca0c040c>] kthread+0xf4
> [<ffffff8eca084dd0>] ret_from_fork+0x10
>
> Fix this lockup by reducing the number of entries to be shrinked
> from the lru list to 1024 at once. Also, add cond_resched() before
> processing the lru list again.
>
> Link: http://marc.info/?t=149722864900001&r=1&w=2
> Fix-suggested-by: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Fix-suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala <stummala@codeaurora.org>

Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>