Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932329AbaF1SX1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:23:27 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54029 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755784AbaF1RvT (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:51:19 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner , Gu Zheng , Yasuaki Ishimatsu , Tang Chen , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 3.15 033/139] mm: vmscan: clear kswapds special reclaim powers before exiting Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:46:34 -0700 Message-Id: <20140628174606.933889554@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20140628174605.352098823@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140628174605.352098823@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johannes Weiner commit 71abdc15adf8c702a1dd535f8e30df50758848d2 upstream. When kswapd exits, it can end up taking locks that were previously held by allocating tasks while they waited for reclaim. Lockdep currently warns about this: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:06:34PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} usage. > kswapd2/1151 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: > (&sig->group_rwsem){+++++?}, at: exit_signals+0x24/0x130 > {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at: > mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140 > lockdep_trace_alloc+0x7a/0xe0 > kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x37/0x240 > flex_array_alloc+0x99/0x1a0 > cgroup_attach_task+0x63/0x430 > attach_task_by_pid+0x210/0x280 > cgroup_procs_write+0x16/0x20 > cgroup_file_write+0x120/0x2c0 > vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0 > SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0 > tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 > irq event stamp: 49 > hardirqs last enabled at (49): _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70 > hardirqs last disabled at (48): _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2b/0xa0 > softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process.part.24+0x627/0x15f0 > softirqs last disabled at (0): (null) > > other info that might help us debug this: > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 > ---- > lock(&sig->group_rwsem); > > lock(&sig->group_rwsem); > > *** DEADLOCK *** > > no locks held by kswapd2/1151. > > stack backtrace: > CPU: 30 PID: 1151 Comm: kswapd2 Not tainted 3.10.39+ #4 > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x19/0x1b > print_usage_bug+0x1f7/0x208 > mark_lock+0x21d/0x2a0 > __lock_acquire+0x52a/0xb60 > lock_acquire+0xa2/0x140 > down_read+0x51/0xa0 > exit_signals+0x24/0x130 > do_exit+0xb5/0xa50 > kthread+0xdb/0x100 > ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 This is because the kswapd thread is still marked as a reclaimer at the time of exit. But because it is exiting, nobody is actually waiting on it to make reclaim progress anymore, and it's nothing but a regular thread at this point. Be tidy and strip it of all its powers (PF_MEMALLOC, PF_SWAPWRITE, PF_KSWAPD, and the lockdep reclaim state) before returning from the thread function. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Gu Zheng Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Tang Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3333,7 +3333,10 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) } } + tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD); current->reclaim_state = NULL; + lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state(); + return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/