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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2017-05-08 15:59:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-08 17:15:15 -0700
commit62be1511b1db8066220b18b7d4da2e6b9fdc69fb (patch)
treeca0c513abfda095e443c388e5e920d01c18c908a /mm
parent3b6521f53572d7fc1b40c93931948716a53a82ab (diff)
mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC
Patch series "more robust PF_MEMALLOC handling" This series aims to unify the setting and clearing of PF_MEMALLOC, which prevents recursive reclaim. There are some places that clear the flag unconditionally from current->flags, which may result in clearing a pre-existing flag. This already resulted in a bug report that Patch 1 fixes (without the new helpers, to make backporting easier). Patch 2 introduces the new helpers, modelled after existing memalloc_noio_* and memalloc_nofs_* helpers, and converts mm core to use them. Patches 3 and 4 convert non-mm code. This patch (of 4): __alloc_pages_direct_compact() sets PF_MEMALLOC to prevent deadlock during page migration by lock_page() (see the comment in __unmap_and_move()). Then it unconditionally clears the flag, which can clear a pre-existing PF_MEMALLOC flag and result in recursive reclaim. This was not a problem until commit a8161d1ed609 ("mm, page_alloc: restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath"), because direct compation was called only after direct reclaim, which was skipped when PF_MEMALLOC flag was set. Even now it's only a theoretical issue, as the new callsite of __alloc_pages_direct_compact() is reached only for costly orders and when gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed() is true, which means either __GFP_NOMEMALLOC is in gfp_flags or in_interrupt() is true. There is no such known context, but let's play it safe and make __alloc_pages_direct_compact() robust for cases where PF_MEMALLOC is already set. Fixes: a8161d1ed609 ("mm, page_alloc: restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405074700.29871-2-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com> Cc: Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index e7486afa7fa7..1daf509722c7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3283,6 +3283,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
enum compact_priority prio, enum compact_result *compact_result)
{
struct page *page;
+ unsigned int noreclaim_flag = current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC;
if (!order)
return NULL;
@@ -3290,7 +3291,7 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
*compact_result = try_to_compact_pages(gfp_mask, order, alloc_flags, ac,
prio);
- current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
+ current->flags = (current->flags & ~PF_MEMALLOC) | noreclaim_flag;
if (*compact_result <= COMPACT_INACTIVE)
return NULL;