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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2019-04-19 02:50:13 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-04-19 18:46:04 +0200
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parentmm: swapoff: take notice of completion sooner (diff)
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mm: swapoff: shmem_unuse() stop eviction without igrab()
The igrab() in shmem_unuse() looks good, but we forgot that it gives no protection against concurrent unmounting: a point made by Konstantin Khlebnikov eight years ago, and then fixed in 2.6.39 by 778dd893ae78 ("tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoff"). The current 5.1-rc swapoff is liable to hit "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day..." followed by GPF. Once again, give up on using igrab(); but don't go back to making such heavy-handed use of shmem_swaplist_mutex as last time: that would spoil the new design, and I expect could deadlock inside shmem_swapin_page(). Instead, shmem_unuse() just raise a "stop_eviction" count in the shmem- specific inode, and shmem_evict_inode() wait for that to go down to 0. Call it "stop_eviction" rather than "swapoff_busy" because it can be put to use for others later (huge tmpfs patches expect to use it). That simplifies shmem_unuse(), protecting it from both unlink and unmount; and in practice lets it locate all the swap in its first try. But do not rely on that: there's still a theoretical case, when shmem_writepage() might have been preempted after its get_swap_page(), before making the swap entry visible to swapoff. [hughd@google.com: remove incorrect list_del()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1904091133570.1898@eggly.anvils Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1904081259400.1523@eggly.anvils Fixes: b56a2d8af914 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Kelley Nielsen <kelleynnn@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Vineeth Pillai <vpillai@digitalocean.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/shmem_fs.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
index f3fb1edb3526..20d815a33145 100644
--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct shmem_inode_info {
struct list_head swaplist; /* chain of maybes on swap */
struct shared_policy policy; /* NUMA memory alloc policy */
struct simple_xattrs xattrs; /* list of xattrs */
+ atomic_t stop_eviction; /* hold when working on inode */
struct inode vfs_inode;
};