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2019-10-06bdi: Do not use freezable workqueueMika Westerberg
A removable block device, such as NVMe or SSD connected over Thunderbolt can be hot-removed any time including when the system is suspended. When device is hot-removed during suspend and the system gets resumed, kernel first resumes devices and then thaws the userspace including freezable workqueues. What happens in that case is that the NVMe driver notices that the device is unplugged and removes it from the system. This ends up calling bdi_unregister() for the gendisk which then schedules wb_workfn() to be run one more time. However, since the bdi_wq is still frozen flush_delayed_work() call in wb_shutdown() blocks forever halting system resume process. User sees this as hang as nothing is happening anymore. Triggering sysrq-w reveals this: Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work [nvme] Call Trace: ? __schedule+0x2c5/0x630 ? wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x120 schedule+0x3e/0xc0 schedule_timeout+0x1c9/0x320 ? resched_curr+0x1f/0xd0 ? wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x120 wait_for_completion+0xc3/0x120 ? wake_up_q+0x60/0x60 __flush_work+0x131/0x1e0 ? flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs+0x130/0x130 bdi_unregister+0xb9/0x130 del_gendisk+0x2d2/0x2e0 nvme_ns_remove+0xed/0x110 [nvme_core] nvme_remove_namespaces+0x96/0xd0 [nvme_core] nvme_remove+0x5b/0x160 [nvme] pci_device_remove+0x36/0x90 device_release_driver_internal+0xdf/0x1c0 nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work+0x14/0x30 [nvme] process_one_work+0x1c2/0x3f0 worker_thread+0x48/0x3e0 kthread+0x100/0x140 ? current_work+0x30/0x30 ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 This is not limited to NVMes so exactly same issue can be reproduced by hot-removing SSD (over Thunderbolt) while the system is suspended. Prevent this from happening by removing WQ_FREEZABLE from bdi_wq. Reported-by: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com> Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138695698516487 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204385 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191002122136.GD2819@lahna.fi.intel.com/#t Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-27writeback: Separate out wb_get_lookup() from wb_get_create()Tejun Heo
Separate out wb_get_lookup() which doesn't try to create one if there isn't already one from wb_get_create(). This will be used by later patches. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-08-27bdi: Add bdi->idTejun Heo
There currently is no way to universally identify and lookup a bdi without holding a reference and pointer to it. This patch adds an non-recycling bdi->id and implements bdi_get_by_id() which looks up bdis by their ids. This will be used by memcg foreign inode flushing. I left bdi_list alone for simplicity and because while rb_tree does support rcu assignment it doesn't seem to guarantee lossless walk when walk is racing aginst tree rebalance operations. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-06-03backing-dev: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functionsGreg Kroah-Hartman
When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do something different based on this. And as the return value does not matter at all, no need to save the dentry in struct backing_dev_info, so delete it. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed filesThomas Gleixner
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-22writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switchesTejun Heo
sync_inodes_sb() can race against cgwb (cgroup writeback) membership switches and fail to writeback some inodes. For example, if an inode switches to another wb while sync_inodes_sb() is in progress, the new wb might not be visible to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() at all or the inode might jump from a wb which hasn't issued writebacks yet to one which already has. This patch adds backing_dev_info->wb_switch_rwsem to synchronize cgwb switch path against sync_inodes_sb() so that sync_inodes_sb() is guaranteed to see all the target wbs and inodes can't jump wbs to escape syncing. v2: Fixed misplaced rwsem init. Spotted by Jiufei. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jiufei Xue <xuejiufei@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc694ae2-f07f-61e1-7097-7c8411cee12d@gmail.com Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-31blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after writeback has finishedDennis Zhou (Facebook)
Currently, blkcg destruction relies on a sequence of events: 1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called and blkgs release their reference to the blkcg. This immediately destroys the cgwbs (writeback). 2. With blkgs giving up their reference, the blkcg ref count should become zero and eventually call blkcg_css_free() which finally frees the blkcg. Jiufei Xue reported that there is a race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir(). To remedy this, blkg destruction becomes contingent on the completion of all writeback associated with the blkcg. A count of the number of cgwbs is maintained and once that goes to zero, blkg destruction can follow. This should prevent premature blkg destruction related to writeback. The new process for blkcg cleanup is as follows: 1. Destruction starts. blkcg_css_offline() is called which offlines writeback. Blkg destruction is delayed on the cgwb_refcnt count to avoid punting potentially large amounts of outstanding writeback to root while maintaining any ongoing policies. Here, the base cgwb_refcnt is put back. 2. When the cgwb_refcnt becomes zero, blkcg_destroy_blkgs() is called and handles destruction of blkgs. This is where the css reference held by each blkg is released. 3. Once the blkcg ref count goes to zero, blkcg_css_free() is called. This finally frees the blkg. It seems in the past blk-throttle didn't do the most understandable things with taking data from a blkg while associating with current. So, the simplification and unification of what blk-throttle is doing caused this. Fixes: 08e18eab0c579 ("block: add bi_blkg to the bio for cgroups") Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com> Cc: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-08-22bdi: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock()Anna-Maria Gleixner
The irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock handles irqsave/restore when taking/releasing the spin lock. With this variant the call of local_irq_save/restore is no longer required. [bigeasy@linutronix.de: s@atomic_dec_and_lock@refcount_dec_and_lock@g] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-22bdi: use refcount_t for reference counting instead atomic_tSebastian Andrzej Siewior
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as a reference counter. This permits avoiding accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free situations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703200141.28415-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-22bdi: Fix another oops in wb_workfn()Jan Kara
syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at wb_workfn() [1] due to wb->bdi->dev being NULL. And Dmitry confirmed that wb->state was WB_shutting_down after wb->bdi->dev became NULL. This indicates that unregister_bdi() failed to call wb_shutdown() on one of wb objects. The problem is in cgwb_bdi_unregister() which does cgwb_kill() and thus drops bdi's reference to wb structures before going through the list of wbs again and calling wb_shutdown() on each of them. This way the loop iterating through all wbs can easily miss a wb if that wb has already passed through cgwb_remove_from_bdi_list() called from wb_shutdown() from cgwb_release_workfn() and as a result fully shutdown bdi although wb_workfn() for this wb structure is still running. In fact there are also other ways cgwb_bdi_unregister() can race with cgwb_release_workfn() leading e.g. to use-after-free issues: CPU1 CPU2 cgwb_bdi_unregister() cgwb_kill(*slot); cgwb_release() queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work); cgwb_release_workfn() wb = list_first_entry(&bdi->wb_list, ...) spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); wb_shutdown(wb); ... kfree_rcu(wb, rcu); wb_shutdown(wb); -> oops use-after-free We solve these issues by synchronizing writeback structure shutdown from cgwb_bdi_unregister() with cgwb_release_workfn() using a new mutex. That way we also no longer need synchronization using WB_shutting_down as the mutex provides it for CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK case and without CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK wb_shutdown() can be called only once from bdi_unregister(). Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+4a7438e774b21ddd8eca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-07memcg: writeback: use memcg->cgwb_list directlyWang Long
mem_cgroup_cgwb_list is a very simple wrapper and it will never be used outside of code under CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK. so use memcg->cgwb_list directly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524406173-212182-1-git-send-email-wanglong19@meituan.com Signed-off-by: Wang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-05-23bdi: Move cgroup bdi_writeback to a dedicated low concurrency workqueueTejun Heo
From 0aa2e9b921d6db71150633ff290199554f0842a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:29:00 -0700 cgwb_release() punts the actual release to cgwb_release_workfn() on system_wq. Depending on the number of cgroups or block devices, there can be a lot of cgwb_release_workfn() in flight at the same time. We're periodically seeing close to 256 kworkers getting stuck with the following stack trace and overtime the entire system gets stuck. [<ffffffff810ee40c>] _synchronize_rcu_expedited.constprop.72+0x2fc/0x330 [<ffffffff810ee634>] synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x24/0x30 [<ffffffff811ccf23>] bdi_unregister+0x53/0x290 [<ffffffff811cd1e9>] release_bdi+0x89/0xc0 [<ffffffff811cd645>] wb_exit+0x85/0xa0 [<ffffffff811cdc84>] cgwb_release_workfn+0x54/0xb0 [<ffffffff810a68d0>] process_one_work+0x150/0x410 [<ffffffff810a71fd>] worker_thread+0x6d/0x520 [<ffffffff810ad3dc>] kthread+0x12c/0x160 [<ffffffff81969019>] ret_from_fork+0x29/0x40 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff The events leading to the lockup are... 1. A lot of cgwb_release_workfn() is queued at the same time and all system_wq kworkers are assigned to execute them. 2. They all end up calling synchronize_rcu_expedited(). One of them wins and tries to perform the expedited synchronization. 3. However, that invovles queueing rcu_exp_work to system_wq and waiting for it. Because #1 is holding all available kworkers on system_wq, rcu_exp_work can't be executed. cgwb_release_workfn() is waiting for synchronize_rcu_expedited() which in turn is waiting for cgwb_release_workfn() to free up some of the kworkers. We shouldn't be scheduling hundreds of cgwb_release_workfn() at the same time. There's nothing to be gained from that. This patch updates cgwb release path to use a dedicated percpu workqueue with @max_active of 1. While this resolves the problem at hand, it might be a good idea to isolate rcu_exp_work to its own workqueue too as it can be used from various paths and is prone to this sort of indirect A-A deadlocks. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-03bdi: Fix use after free bug in debugfs_remove()Tetsuo Handa
syzbot is reporting use after free bug in debugfs_remove() [1]. This is because fault injection made memory allocation for debugfs_create_file() from bdi_debug_register() from bdi_register_va() fail and continued with setting WB_registered. But when debugfs_remove() is called from debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir) from bdi_debug_unregister() from bdi_unregister() from release_bdi() because WB_registered was set by bdi_register_va(), IS_ERR_OR_NULL(bdi->debug_dir) == false despite debugfs_remove(bdi->debug_dir) was already called from bdi_register_va(). Fix this by making IS_ERR_OR_NULL(bdi->debug_dir) == true. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=5ab4efd91a96dcea9b68104f159adf4af2a6dfc1 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+049cb4ae097049dac137@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Fixes: 97f07697932e6faf ("bdi: convert bdi_debug_register to int") Cc: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-03bdi: wake up concurrent wb_shutdown() callers.Tetsuo Handa
syzbot is reporting hung tasks at wait_on_bit(WB_shutting_down) in wb_shutdown() [1]. This seems to be because commit 5318ce7d46866e1d ("bdi: Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()") forgot to call wake_up_bit(WB_shutting_down) after clear_bit(WB_shutting_down). Introduce a helper function clear_and_wake_up_bit() and use it, in order to avoid similar errors in future. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=b297474817af98d5796bc544e1bb806fc3da0e5e Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+c0cf869505e03bdf1a24@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Fixes: 5318ce7d46866e1d ("bdi: Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()") Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-04-11mm/vmscan: don't mess with pgdat->flags in memcg reclaimAndrey Ryabinin
memcg reclaim may alter pgdat->flags based on the state of LRU lists in cgroup and its children. PGDAT_WRITEBACK may force kswapd to sleep congested_wait(), PGDAT_DIRTY may force kswapd to writeback filesystem pages. But the worst here is PGDAT_CONGESTED, since it may force all direct reclaims to stall in wait_iff_congested(). Note that only kswapd have powers to clear any of these bits. This might just never happen if cgroup limits configured that way. So all direct reclaims will stall as long as we have some congested bdi in the system. Leave all pgdat->flags manipulations to kswapd. kswapd scans the whole pgdat, only kswapd can clear pgdat->flags once node is balanced, thus it's reasonable to leave all decisions about node state to kswapd. Why only kswapd? Why not allow to global direct reclaim change these flags? It is because currently only kswapd can clear these flags. I'm less worried about the case when PGDAT_CONGESTED falsely not set, and more worried about the case when it falsely set. If direct reclaimer sets PGDAT_CONGESTED, do we have guarantee that after the congestion problem is sorted out, kswapd will be woken up and clear the flag? It seems like there is no such guarantee. E.g. direct reclaimers may eventually balance pgdat and kswapd simply won't wake up (see wakeup_kswapd()). Moving pgdat->flags manipulation to kswapd, means that cgroup2 recalim now loses its congestion throttling mechanism. Add per-cgroup congestion state and throttle cgroup2 reclaimers if memcg is in congestion state. Currently there is no need in per-cgroup PGDAT_WRITEBACK and PGDAT_DIRTY bits since they alter only kswapd behavior. The problem could be easily demonstrated by creating heavy congestion in one cgroup: echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/congester echo 512M > /sys/fs/cgroup/congester/memory.max echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/congester/cgroup.procs /* generate a lot of diry data on slow HDD */ while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/zeroes bs=1M count=1024; done & .... while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdb/zeroes bs=1M count=1024; done & and some job in another cgroup: mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/victim echo 128M > /sys/fs/cgroup/victim/memory.max # time cat /dev/sda > /dev/null real 10m15.054s user 0m0.487s sys 1m8.505s According to the tracepoint in wait_iff_congested(), the 'cat' spent 50% of the time sleeping there. With the patch, cat don't waste time anymore: # time cat /dev/sda > /dev/null real 5m32.911s user 0m0.411s sys 0m56.664s [aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: congestion state should be per-node] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406135215.10057-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com [ayabinin@virtuozzo.com: make congestion state per-cgroup-per-node instead of just per-cgroup[ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406180254.8970-2-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323152029.11084-5-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-06Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - ocfs2 updates - the v9fs maintainers have been missing for a long time. I've taken over v9fs patch slinging. - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (116 commits) mm,oom_reaper: check for MMF_OOM_SKIP before complaining mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP mm/memblock.c: cast constant ULLONG_MAX to phys_addr_t headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h include/linux/mmdebug.h: make VM_WARN* non-rvals mm/page_isolation.c: make start_isolate_page_range() fail if already isolated mm: change return type to vm_fault_t mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm mm: make counting of list_lru_one::nr_items lockless mm/swap_state.c: make bool enable_vma_readahead and swap_vma_readahead() static block_invalidatepage(): only release page if the full page was invalidated mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions mm/swap.c: remove @cold parameter description for release_pages() mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area zram: drop max_zpage_size and use zs_huge_class_size() zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size() mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache fs/direct-io.c: minor cleanups in do_blockdev_direct_IO ...
2018-04-05mm: reuse DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macroAndy Shevchenko
...instead of open coding file operations followed by custom ->open() callbacks per each attribute. [andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: add tags, fix compilation issue] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180217144253.58604-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214154644.54505-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-02-28writeback: remove dead code in wb_blkcg/memcg_offlineJiufei Xue
Signed-off-by: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-12-21Revert "bdi: add error handle for bdi_debug_register"Jens Axboe
This reverts commit a0747a859ef6d3cc5b6cd50eb694499b78dd0025. It breaks some booting for some users, and more than a week into this, there's still no good fix. Revert this commit for now until a solution has been found. Reported-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-19bdi: add error handle for bdi_debug_registerweiping zhang
In order to make error handle more cleaner we call bdi_debug_register before set state to WB_registered, that we can avoid call bdi_unregister in release_bdi(). Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-19bdi: convert bdi_debug_register to intweiping zhang
Convert bdi_debug_register to int and then do error handle for it. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: weiping zhang <zhangweiping@didichuxing.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-06backing-dev: kill unused pdflush_proc_obsolete()Jens Axboe
After commit b35bd0d9f8a8, pdflush_proc_obsolete() is no longer used. Kill the function and declaration. Reported-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-09-11mm/backing-dev.c: fix an error handling path in 'cgwb_create()'Christophe JAILLET
If the 'kmalloc' fails, we must go through the existing error handling path. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Fixes: 52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-04-20bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]()Jan Kara
Drop 'parent' argument of bdi_register() and bdi_register_va(). It is always NULL. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20block: Remove unused functionsJan Kara
Now that all backing_dev_info structure are allocated separately, we can drop some unused functions. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20bdi: Export bdi_alloc_node() and bdi_put()Jan Kara
MTD will want to call bdi_alloc_node() and bdi_put() directly. Export these functions. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20block: Unregister bdi on last reference dropJan Kara
Most users will want to unregister bdi when dropping last reference to a bdi. Only a few users (like block devices) want to play more complex tricks with bdi registration and unregistration. So unregister bdi when the last reference to bdi is dropped and just make sure we don't unregister the bdi the second time if it is already unregistered. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20bdi: Provide bdi_register_va() and bdi_alloc()Jan Kara
Add function that registers bdi and takes va_list instead of variable number of arguments. Add bdi_alloc() as simple wrapper for NUMA-unaware users allocating BDI. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22bdi: Rename cgwb_bdi_destroy() to cgwb_bdi_unregister()Jan Kara
Rename cgwb_bdi_destroy() to cgwb_bdi_unregister() as it gets called from bdi_unregister() which is not necessarily called from bdi_destroy() and thus the name is somewhat misleading. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22bdi: Do not wait for cgwbs release in bdi_unregister()Jan Kara
Currently we wait for all cgwbs to get released in cgwb_bdi_destroy() (called from bdi_unregister()). That is however unnecessary now when cgwb->bdi is a proper refcounted reference (thus bdi cannot get released before all cgwbs are released) and when cgwb_bdi_destroy() shuts down writeback directly. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22bdi: Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()Jan Kara
Currently we waited for all cgwbs to get freed in cgwb_bdi_destroy() which also means that writeback has been shutdown on them. Since this wait is going away, directly shutdown writeback on cgwbs from cgwb_bdi_destroy() to avoid live writeback structures after bdi_unregister() has finished. To make that safe with concurrent shutdown from cgwb_release_workfn(), we also have to make sure wb_shutdown() returns only after the bdi_writeback structure is really shutdown. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22bdi: Unify bdi->wb_list handling for root wb_writebackJan Kara
Currently root wb_writeback structure is added to bdi->wb_list in bdi_init() and never removed. That is different from all other wb_writeback structures which get added to the list when created and removed from it before wb_shutdown(). So move list addition of root bdi_writeback to bdi_register() and list removal of all wb_writeback structures to wb_shutdown(). That way a wb_writeback structure is on bdi->wb_list if and only if it can handle writeback and it will make it easier for us to handle shutdown of all wb_writeback structures in bdi_unregister(). Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22bdi: Make wb->bdi a proper referenceJan Kara
Make wb->bdi a proper refcounted reference to bdi for all bdi_writeback structures except for the one embedded inside struct backing_dev_info. That will allow us to simplify bdi unregistration. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-22bdi: Mark congested->bdi as internalJan Kara
congested->bdi pointer is used only to be able to remove congested structure from bdi->cgwb_congested_tree on structure release. Moreover the pointer can become NULL when we unregister the bdi. Rename the field to __bdi and add a comment to make it more explicit this is internal stuff of memcg writeback code and people should not use the field as such use will be likely race prone. We do not bother with converting congested->bdi to a proper refcounted reference. It will be slightly ugly to special-case bdi->wb.congested to avoid effectively a cyclic reference of bdi to itself and the reference gets cleared from bdi_unregister() making it impossible to reference a freed bdi. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-08bdi: Fix use-after-free in wb_congested_put()Jan Kara
bdi_writeback_congested structures get created for each blkcg and bdi regardless whether bdi is registered or not. When they are created in unregistered bdi and the request queue (and thus bdi) is then destroyed while blkg still holds reference to bdi_writeback_congested structure, this structure will be referencing freed bdi and last wb_congested_put() will try to remove the structure from already freed bdi. With commit 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()", SCSI started to destroy bdis without calling bdi_unregister() first (previously it was calling bdi_unregister() even for unregistered bdis) and thus the code detaching bdi_writeback_congested in cgwb_bdi_destroy() was not triggered and we started hitting this use-after-free bug. It is enough to boot a KVM instance with virtio-scsi device to trigger this behavior. Fix the problem by detaching bdi_writeback_congested structures in bdi_exit() instead of bdi_unregister(). This is also more logical as they can get attached to bdi regardless whether it ever got registered or not. Fixes: 165a5e22fafb127ecb5914e12e8c32a1f0d3f820 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-08block: Allow bdi re-registrationJan Kara
SCSI can call device_add_disk() several times for one request queue when a device in unbound and bound, creating new gendisk each time. This will lead to bdi being repeatedly registered and unregistered. This was not a big problem until commit 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()" since bdi was only registered repeatedly (bdi_register() handles repeated calls fine, only we ended up leaking reference to gendisk due to overwriting bdi->owner) but unregistered only in blk_cleanup_queue() which didn't get called repeatedly. After 165a5e22fafb we were doing correct bdi_register() - bdi_unregister() cycles however bdi_unregister() is not prepared for it. So make sure bdi_unregister() cleans up bdi in such a way that it is prepared for a possible following bdi_register() call. An easy way to provoke this behavior is to enable CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE and use scsi_debug driver to create a scsi disk which immediately hangs without this fix. Fixes: 165a5e22fafb127ecb5914e12e8c32a1f0d3f820 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-22mm/backing-dev.c: use rb_entry()Geliang Tang
To make the code clearer, use rb_entry() instead of container_of() to deal with rbtree. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/671275de093d93ddc7c6f77ddc0d357149691a39.1484306840.git.geliangtang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-08block: fix double-free in the failure path of cgwb_bdi_init()Tejun Heo
When !CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK, bdi has single bdi_writeback_congested at bdi->wb_congested. cgwb_bdi_init() allocates it with kzalloc() and doesn't do further initialization. This usually works fine as the reference count gets bumped to 1 by wb_init() and the put from wb_exit() releases it. However, when wb_init() fails, it puts the wb base ref automatically freeing the wb and the explicit kfree() in cgwb_bdi_init() error path ends up trying to free the same pointer the second time causing a double-free. Fix it by explicitly initilizing the refcnt to 1 and putting the base ref from cgwb_bdi_destroy(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Fixes: a13f35e87140 ("writeback: don't embed root bdi_writeback_congested in bdi_writeback") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+ Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-02block: Dynamically allocate and refcount backing_dev_infoJan Kara
Instead of storing backing_dev_info inside struct request_queue, allocate it dynamically, reference count it, and free it when the last reference is dropped. Currently only request_queue holds the reference but in the following patch we add other users referencing backing_dev_info. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-08writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()Jens Axboe
Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers to increase the priority of writes. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2016-08-04block: fix bdi vs gendisk lifetime mismatchDan Williams
The name for a bdi of a gendisk is derived from the gendisk's devt. However, since the gendisk is destroyed before the bdi it leaves a window where a new gendisk could dynamically reuse the same devt while a bdi with the same name is still live. Arrange for the bdi to hold a reference against its "owner" disk device while it is registered. Otherwise we can hit sysfs duplicate name collisions like the following: WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 2078 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80 sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/259:1' Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8, BIOS P79 05/06/2015 0000000000000286 0000000002c04ad5 ffff88006f24f970 ffffffff8134caec ffff88006f24f9c0 0000000000000000 ffff88006f24f9b0 ffffffff8108c351 0000001f0000000c ffff88105d236000 ffff88105d1031e0 ffff8800357427f8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8134caec>] dump_stack+0x63/0x87 [<ffffffff8108c351>] __warn+0xd1/0xf0 [<ffffffff8108c3cf>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80 [<ffffffff812a0d34>] sysfs_warn_dup+0x64/0x80 [<ffffffff812a0e1e>] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x7e/0x90 [<ffffffff8134faaa>] kobject_add_internal+0xaa/0x320 [<ffffffff81358d4e>] ? vsnprintf+0x34e/0x4d0 [<ffffffff8134ff55>] kobject_add+0x75/0xd0 [<ffffffff816e66b2>] ? mutex_lock+0x12/0x2f [<ffffffff8148b0a5>] device_add+0x125/0x610 [<ffffffff8148b788>] device_create_groups_vargs+0xd8/0x100 [<ffffffff8148b7cc>] device_create_vargs+0x1c/0x20 [<ffffffff811b775c>] bdi_register+0x8c/0x180 [<ffffffff811b7877>] bdi_register_dev+0x27/0x30 [<ffffffff813317f5>] add_disk+0x175/0x4a0 Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com> Tested-by: Yi Zhang <yizhan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Fixed up missing 0 return in bdi_register_owner(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-28mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to nodeMel Gorman
This moves the LRU lists from the zone to the node and related data such as counters, tracing, congestion tracking and writeback tracking. Unfortunately, due to reclaim and compaction retry logic, it is necessary to account for the number of LRU pages on both zone and node logic. Most reclaim logic is based on the node counters but the retry logic uses the zone counters which do not distinguish inactive and active sizes. It would be possible to leave the LRU counters on a per-zone basis but it's a heavier calculation across multiple cache lines that is much more frequent than the retry checks. Other than the LRU counters, this is mostly a mechanical patch but note that it introduces a number of anomalies. For example, the scans are per-zone but using per-node counters. We also mark a node as congested when a zone is congested. This causes weird problems that are fixed later but is easier to review. In the event that there is excessive overhead on 32-bit systems due to the nodes being on LRU then there are two potential solutions 1. Long-term isolation of highmem pages when reclaim is lowmem When pages are skipped, they are immediately added back onto the LRU list. If lowmem reclaim persisted for long periods of time, the same highmem pages get continually scanned. The idea would be that lowmem keeps those pages on a separate list until a reclaim for highmem pages arrives that splices the highmem pages back onto the LRU. It potentially could be implemented similar to the UNEVICTABLE list. That would reduce the skip rate with the potential corner case is that highmem pages have to be scanned and reclaimed to free lowmem slab pages. 2. Linear scan lowmem pages if the initial LRU shrink fails This will break LRU ordering but may be preferable and faster during memory pressure than skipping LRU pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-4-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-20mm: throttle on IO only when there are too many dirty and writeback pagesMichal Hocko
wait_iff_congested has been used to throttle allocator before it retried another round of direct reclaim to allow the writeback to make some progress and prevent reclaim from looping over dirty/writeback pages without making any progress. We used to do congestion_wait before commit 0e093d99763e ("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone") but that led to undesirable stalls and sleeping for the full timeout even when the BDI wasn't congested. Hence wait_iff_congested was used instead. But it seems that even wait_iff_congested doesn't work as expected. We might have a small file LRU list with all pages dirty/writeback and yet the bdi is not congested so this is just a cond_resched in the end and can end up triggering pre mature OOM. This patch replaces the unconditional wait_iff_congested by congestion_wait which is executed only if we _know_ that the last round of direct reclaim didn't make any progress and dirty+writeback pages are more than a half of the reclaimable pages on the zone which might be usable for our target allocation. This shouldn't reintroduce stalls fixed by 0e093d99763e because congestion_wait is called only when we are getting hopeless when sleeping is a better choice than OOM with many pages under IO. We have to preserve logic introduced by commit 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress") into the __alloc_pages_slowpath now that wait_iff_congested is not used anymore. As the only remaining user of wait_iff_congested is shrink_inactive_list we can remove the WQ specific short sleep from wait_iff_congested because the sleep is needed to be done only once in the allocation retry cycle. [mhocko@suse.com: high_zoneidx->ac_classzone_idx to evaluate memory reserves properly] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463051677-29418-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-31writeback: fix the wrong congested state variable definitionKaixu Xia
The right variable definition should be wb_congested_state that include WB_async_congested and WB_sync_congested. So fix it. Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-03-17mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>Joe Perches
Most of the mm subsystem uses pr_<level> so make it consistent. Miscellanea: - Realign arguments - Add missing newline to format - kmemleak-test.c has a "kmemleak: " prefix added to the "Kmemleak testing" logging message via pr_fmt Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> [percpu] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-11mm/backing-dev.c: fix error path in wb_init()Rasmus Villemoes
We need to use post-decrement to get percpu_counter_destroy() called on &wb->stat[0]. Moreover, the pre-decremebt would cause infinite out-of-bounds accesses if the setup code failed at i==0. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-05mm, vmstat: fix wrong WQ sleep when memory reclaim doesn't make any progressTetsuo Handa
Jan Stancek has reported that system occasionally hanging after "oom01" testcase from LTP triggers OOM. Guessing from a result that there is a kworker thread doing memory allocation and the values between "Node 0 Normal free:" and "Node 0 Normal:" differs when hanging, vmstat is not up-to-date for some reason. According to commit 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress"), it meant to force the kworker thread to take a short sleep, but it by error used schedule_timeout(1). We missed that schedule_timeout() in state TASK_RUNNING doesn't do anything. Fix it by using schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) which forces the kworker thread to take a short sleep in order to make sure that vmstat is up-to-date. Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress") Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Cristopher Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: export root_mem_cgroupJohannes Weiner
A later patch will need this symbol in files other than memcontrol.c, so export it now and replace mem_cgroup_root_css at the same time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-12mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any ↵Michal Hocko
progress Tetsuo Handa has reported that the system might basically livelock in OOM condition without triggering the OOM killer. The issue is caused by internal dependency of the direct reclaim on vmstat counter updates (via zone_reclaimable) which are performed from the workqueue context. If all the current workers get assigned to an allocation request, though, they will be looping inside the allocator trying to reclaim memory but zone_reclaimable can see stalled numbers so it will consider a zone reclaimable even though it has been scanned way too much. WQ concurrency logic will not consider this situation as a congested workqueue because it relies that worker would have to sleep in such a situation. This also means that it doesn't try to spawn new workers or invoke the rescuer thread if the one is assigned to the queue. In order to fix this issue we need to do two things. First we have to let wq concurrency code know that we are in trouble so we have to do a short sleep. In order to prevent from issues handled by 0e093d99763e ("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone") we limit the sleep only to worker threads which are the ones of the interest anyway. The second thing to do is to create a dedicated workqueue for vmstat and mark it WQ_MEM_RECLAIM to note it participates in the reclaim and to have a spare worker thread for it. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Cristopher Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to ↵Mel Gorman
sleep and avoiding waking kswapd __GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>