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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: [ 03/41] mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop()
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:31:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730172901.577904115@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120730172901.306897424@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-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
@@ -2695,7 +2695,10 @@ 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:[~2012-07-30 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 17:30 [ 00/41] 3.0.39-rc2 stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 01/41] cifs: always update the inode cache with the results from a FIND_* Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 02/41] ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 04/41] MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 05/41] UBIFS: fix a bug in empty space fix-up Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 06/41] dm raid1: fix crash with mirror recovery and discard Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 07/41] mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 08/41] mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 09/41] mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 10/41] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 11/41] vmscan: clear ZONE_CONGESTED for zone with good watermark Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 12/41] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 13/41] vmscan: shrinker->nr updates race and go wrong Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 14/41] vmscan: reduce wind up shrinker->nr when shrinker cant do work Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 15/41] vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 16/41] vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 17/41] mm: compaction: trivial clean up in acct_isolated() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 18/41] mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 19/41] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 20/41] mm: zone_reclaim: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 21/41] mm: migration: clean up unmap_and_move() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 22/41] mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 23/41] mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 24/41] mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 25/41] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 26/41] kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 27/41] kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 28/41] mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-31 16:43   ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-07-31 17:00     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 29/41] mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 30/41] mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 31/41] mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() is true for one zone Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 32/41] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 33/41] vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 34/41] mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue reclaim Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 35/41] mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaim Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 36/41] mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 37/41] cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one node remains set Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 38/41] cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 39/41] cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 40/41] mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 41/41] vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling Greg Kroah-Hartman

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