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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 19:33:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 19:33:41 -0700
commit345671ea0f9258f410eb057b9ced9cefbbe5dc78 (patch)
treefe97ba3d27679789e6aa34e39b002ee64ce25412 /mm/page-writeback.c
parent4904008165c8a1c48602b8316139691b8c735e6e (diff)
parent22146c3ce98962436e401f7b7016a6f664c9ffb5 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (132 commits) hugetlbfs: dirty pages as they are added to pagecache mm: export add_swap_extent() mm: split SWP_FILE into SWP_ACTIVATED and SWP_FS tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_fixed_noreplace.c: add test for MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE mm: thp: relocate flush_cache_range() in migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() mm: thp: fix mmu_notifier in migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() mm: thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page race condition mm/kasan/quarantine.c: make quarantine_lock a raw_spinlock_t mm/gup: cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages Revert "x86/e820: put !E820_TYPE_RAM regions into memblock.reserved" mm: return zero_resv_unavail optimization mm: zero remaining unavailable struct pages tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: add MAP_HUGETLB option tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: add MAP_SHARED option tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: allow user specified file tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c: fix 'write' flag usage mm/gup_benchmark.c: add additional pinning methods mm/gup_benchmark.c: time put_page() mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed high-order allocation mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c33
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 84ae9bf5858a..439a304a6c92 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2149,6 +2149,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
* not miss some pages (e.g., because some other process has cleared TOWRITE
* tag we set). The rule we follow is that TOWRITE tag can be cleared only
* by the process clearing the DIRTY tag (and submitting the page for IO).
+ *
+ * To avoid deadlocks between range_cyclic writeback and callers that hold
+ * pages in PageWriteback to aggregate IO until write_cache_pages() returns,
+ * we do not loop back to the start of the file. Doing so causes a page
+ * lock/page writeback access order inversion - we should only ever lock
+ * multiple pages in ascending page->index order, and looping back to the start
+ * of the file violates that rule and causes deadlocks.
*/
int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
@@ -2162,7 +2169,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t index;
pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
pgoff_t done_index;
- int cycled;
int range_whole = 0;
int tag;
@@ -2170,23 +2176,17 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
writeback_index = mapping->writeback_index; /* prev offset */
index = writeback_index;
- if (index == 0)
- cycled = 1;
- else
- cycled = 0;
end = -1;
} else {
index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
range_whole = 1;
- cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
}
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
else
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
-retry:
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
done_index = index;
@@ -2272,17 +2272,14 @@ continue_unlock:
pagevec_release(&pvec);
cond_resched();
}
- if (!cycled && !done) {
- /*
- * range_cyclic:
- * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
- * back to the start of the file
- */
- cycled = 1;
- index = 0;
- end = writeback_index - 1;
- goto retry;
- }
+
+ /*
+ * If we hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap
+ * back the index back to the start of the file for the next
+ * time we are called.
+ */
+ if (wbc->range_cyclic && !done)
+ done_index = 0;
if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0))
mapping->writeback_index = done_index;