From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Mike Marciniszyn" , "Roland Dreier" , "Jan Kara" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.2 043/185] IB/ipath: Convert ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() to use get_user_pages_fast() In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jan Kara commit 4adcf7fb6783e354aab38824d803fa8c4f8e8a27 upstream. ipath_user_sdma_queue_pkts() gets called with mmap_sem held for writing. Except for get_user_pages() deep down in ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() we don't seem to need mmap_sem at all. Even more interestingly the function ipath_user_sdma_queue_pkts() (and also ipath_user_sdma_coalesce() called somewhat later) call copy_from_user() which can hit a page fault and we deadlock on trying to get mmap_sem when handling that fault. So just make ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() use get_user_pages_fast() and leave mmap_sem locking for mm. This deadlock has actually been observed in the wild when the node is under memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn [ Merged in fix for call to get_user_pages_fast from Tetsuo Handa . - Roland ] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_user_sdma.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_user_sdma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_user_sdma.c @@ -280,9 +280,7 @@ static int ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages(con int j; int ret; - ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, - npages, 0, 1, pages, NULL); - + ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, npages, 0, pages); if (ret != npages) { int i; @@ -811,10 +809,7 @@ int ipath_user_sdma_writev(struct ipath_ while (dim) { const int mxp = 8; - down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); ret = ipath_user_sdma_queue_pkts(dd, pq, &list, iov, dim, mxp); - up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); - if (ret <= 0) goto done_unlock; else {