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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>2016-02-17 13:11:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-02-18 16:23:24 -0800
commit13d34ac6e55b8284c592c67e166ac614b3c4c1d7 (patch)
tree264072d218397d7d4e1ad109f94ac72285c11a22 /include
parent48f7df329474b49d83d0dffec1b6186647f11976 (diff)
Revert "fsnotify: destroy marks with call_srcu instead of dedicated thread"
This reverts commit c510eff6beba ("fsnotify: destroy marks with call_srcu instead of dedicated thread"). Eryu reported that he was seeing some OOM kills kick in when running a testcase that adds and removes inotify marks on a file in a tight loop. The above commit changed the code to use call_srcu to clean up the marks. While that does (in principle) work, the srcu callback job is limited to cleaning up entries in small batches and only once per jiffy. It's easily possible to overwhelm that machinery with too many call_srcu callbacks, and Eryu's reproduer did just that. There's also another potential problem with using call_srcu here. While you can obviously sleep while holding the srcu_read_lock, the callbacks run under local_bh_disable, so you can't sleep there. It's possible when putting the last reference to the fsnotify_mark that we'll end up putting a chain of references including the fsnotify_group, uid, and associated keys. While I don't see any obvious ways that that could occurs, it's probably still best to avoid using call_srcu here after all. This patch reverts the above patch. A later patch will take a different approach to eliminated the dedicated thread here. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com> Reported-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com> Tested-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 6b7e89f45aa4..533c4408529a 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -220,10 +220,7 @@ struct fsnotify_mark {
/* List of marks by group->i_fsnotify_marks. Also reused for queueing
* mark into destroy_list when it's waiting for the end of SRCU period
* before it can be freed. [group->mark_mutex] */
- union {
- struct list_head g_list;
- struct rcu_head g_rcu;
- };
+ struct list_head g_list;
/* Protects inode / mnt pointers, flags, masks */
spinlock_t lock;
/* List of marks for inode / vfsmount [obj_lock] */