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| author |   Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> | 2019-11-30 17:50:22 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-12-01 06:29:18 -0800 |
| commit | 89b15332af7c0312a41e50846819ca6613b58b4c (patch) | |
| tree | 2c8e96f022d14c6ec65abcb904aacfc1b59d45cb /mm/filemap.c | |
| parent | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst: document why inactive_X + active_X may not equal X (diff) | |
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mm: drop mmap_sem before calling balance_dirty_pages() in write fault
One of our services is observing hanging ps/top/etc under heavy write
IO, and the task states show this is an mmap_sem priority inversion:
A write fault is holding the mmap_sem in read-mode and waiting for
(heavily cgroup-limited) IO in balance_dirty_pages():
balance_dirty_pages+0x724/0x905
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x254/0x390
fault_dirty_shared_page.isra.96+0x4a/0x90
do_wp_page+0x33e/0x400
__handle_mm_fault+0x6f0/0xfa0
handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x200
__do_page_fault+0x22b/0x4a0
page_fault+0x45/0x50
Somebody tries to change the address space, contending for the mmap_sem in
write-mode:
call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x13/0x20
do_mprotect_pkey+0xa8/0x330
SyS_mprotect+0xf/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
The waiting writer locks out all subsequent readers to avoid lock
starvation, and several threads can be seen hanging like this:
call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xa0/0x480
__vfs_read+0x23/0x140
vfs_read+0x87/0x130
SyS_read+0x42/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
To fix this, do what we do for cache read faults already: drop the
mmap_sem before calling into anything IO bound, in this case the
balance_dirty_pages() function, and return VM_FAULT_RETRY.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924194238.GA29030@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/filemap.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index dc3b78db079b..bf6aa30be58d 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2329,27 +2329,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_read_iter); #ifdef CONFIG_MMU #define MMAP_LOTSAMISS (100) -static struct file *maybe_unlock_mmap_for_io(struct vm_fault *vmf, - struct file *fpin) -{ - int flags = vmf->flags; - - if (fpin) - return fpin; - - /* - * FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT means we don't want to wait on page locks or - * anything, so we only pin the file and drop the mmap_sem if only - * FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY is set. - */ - if ((flags & (FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) == - FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) { - fpin = get_file(vmf->vma->vm_file); - up_read(&vmf->vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem); - } - return fpin; -} - /* * lock_page_maybe_drop_mmap - lock the page, possibly dropping the mmap_sem * @vmf - the vm_fault for this fault. |