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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:58:04 -0400
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>,
	Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>,
	Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	=?iso-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Poulin <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: zswap: fix writeback shinker GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS
 recursion
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 02:25:32PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Kent forwards this bug report of zswap re-entering the block layer
> from an IO request allocation and locking up:
> 
> [10264.128242] sysrq: Show Blocked State
> [10264.128268] task:kworker/20:0H   state:D stack:0     pid:143   tgid:143   ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
> [10264.128271] Workqueue: bcachefs_io btree_write_submit [bcachefs]
> [10264.128295] Call Trace:
> [10264.128295]  <TASK>
> [10264.128297]  __schedule+0x3e6/0x1520
> [10264.128303]  schedule+0x32/0xd0
> [10264.128304]  schedule_timeout+0x98/0x160
> [10264.128308]  io_schedule_timeout+0x50/0x80
> [10264.128309]  wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0x7f/0x180
> [10264.128310]  submit_bio_wait+0x78/0xb0
> [10264.128313]  swap_writepage_bdev_sync+0xf6/0x150
> [10264.128317]  zswap_writeback_entry+0xf2/0x180
> [10264.128319]  shrink_memcg_cb+0xe7/0x2f0
> [10264.128322]  __list_lru_walk_one+0xb9/0x1d0
> [10264.128325]  list_lru_walk_one+0x5d/0x90
> [10264.128326]  zswap_shrinker_scan+0xc4/0x130
> [10264.128327]  do_shrink_slab+0x13f/0x360
> [10264.128328]  shrink_slab+0x28e/0x3c0
> [10264.128329]  shrink_one+0x123/0x1b0
> [10264.128331]  shrink_node+0x97e/0xbc0
> [10264.128332]  do_try_to_free_pages+0xe7/0x5b0
> [10264.128333]  try_to_free_pages+0xe1/0x200
> [10264.128334]  __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x343/0xde0
> [10264.128337]  __alloc_pages+0x32d/0x350
> [10264.128338]  allocate_slab+0x400/0x460
> [10264.128339]  ___slab_alloc+0x40d/0xa40
> [10264.128345]  kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x330
> [10264.128348]  mempool_alloc+0x86/0x1b0
> [10264.128349]  bio_alloc_bioset+0x200/0x4f0
> [10264.128352]  bio_alloc_clone+0x23/0x60
> [10264.128354]  alloc_io+0x26/0xf0 [dm_mod 7e9e6b44df4927f93fb3e4b5c782767396f58382]
> [10264.128361]  dm_submit_bio+0xb8/0x580 [dm_mod 7e9e6b44df4927f93fb3e4b5c782767396f58382]
> [10264.128366]  __submit_bio+0xb0/0x170
> [10264.128367]  submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x159/0x370
> [10264.128368]  bch2_submit_wbio_replicas+0x21c/0x3a0 [bcachefs 85f1b9a7a824f272eff794653a06dde1a94439f2]
> [10264.128391]  btree_write_submit+0x1cf/0x220 [bcachefs 85f1b9a7a824f272eff794653a06dde1a94439f2]
> [10264.128406]  process_one_work+0x178/0x350
> [10264.128408]  worker_thread+0x30f/0x450
> [10264.128409]  kthread+0xe5/0x120
> 
> The zswap shrinker resumes the swap_writepage()s that were intercepted
> by the zswap store. This will enter the block layer, and may even
> enter the filesystem depending on the swap backing file.
> 
> Make it respect GFP_NOIO and GFP_NOFS.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/rc4pk2r42oyvjo4dc62z6sovquyllq56i5cdgcaqbd7wy3hfzr@n4nbxido3fme/
> Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>

Andrew can you please also add:

Reported-by: J?r?me Poulin <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>

Thanks