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author | Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> | 2023-08-28 10:25:27 +0800 |
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committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-09-05 11:11:52 -0700 |
commit | d256d1cd8da1cbc4615de69df71c87ce623fec2f (patch) | |
tree | ceff115f2a868c0da0028e6186f61583e2d4fc2a /mm/memory-failure.c | |
parent | 2562d67b1bdf91c7395b0225d60fdeb26b4bc5a0 (diff) |
mm: memory-failure: use rcu lock instead of tasklist_lock when collect_procs()
We found a softlock issue in our test, analyzed the logs, and found that
the relevant CPU call trace as follows:
CPU0:
_do_fork
-> copy_process()
-> write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) //Disable irq,waiting for
//tasklist_lock
CPU1:
wp_page_copy()
->pte_offset_map_lock()
-> spin_lock(&page->ptl); //Hold page->ptl
-> ptep_clear_flush()
-> flush_tlb_others() ...
-> smp_call_function_many()
-> arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
-> csd_lock_wait() //Waiting for other CPUs respond
//IPI
CPU2:
collect_procs_anon()
-> read_lock(&tasklist_lock) //Hold tasklist_lock
->for_each_process(tsk)
-> page_mapped_in_vma()
-> page_vma_mapped_walk()
-> map_pte()
->spin_lock(&page->ptl) //Waiting for page->ptl
We can see that CPU1 waiting for CPU0 respond IPI,CPU0 waiting for CPU2
unlock tasklist_lock, CPU2 waiting for CPU1 unlock page->ptl. As a result,
softlockup is triggered.
For collect_procs_anon(), what we're doing is task list iteration, during
the iteration, with the help of call_rcu(), the task_struct object is freed
only after one or more grace periods elapse. the logic as follows:
release_task()
-> __exit_signal()
-> __unhash_process()
-> list_del_rcu()
-> put_task_struct_rcu_user()
-> call_rcu(&task->rcu, delayed_put_task_struct)
delayed_put_task_struct()
-> put_task_struct()
-> if (refcount_sub_and_test())
__put_task_struct()
-> free_task()
Therefore, under the protection of the rcu lock, we can safely use
get_task_struct() to ensure a safe reference to task_struct during the
iteration.
By removing the use of tasklist_lock in task list iteration, we can break
the softlock chain above.
The same logic can also be applied to:
- collect_procs_file()
- collect_procs_fsdax()
- collect_procs_ksm()
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230828022527.241693-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memory-failure.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 881c35ef1daa..d06b0fba09fb 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int forcekill, bool fail, * on behalf of the thread group. Return task_struct of the (first found) * dedicated thread if found, and return NULL otherwise. * - * We already hold read_lock(&tasklist_lock) in the caller, so we don't - * have to call rcu_read_lock/unlock() in this function. + * We already hold rcu lock in the caller, so we don't have to call + * rcu_read_lock/unlock() in this function. */ static struct task_struct *find_early_kill_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) { @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, return; pgoff = page_to_pgoff(page); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(tsk) { struct anon_vma_chain *vmac; struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early); @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill); } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); anon_vma_unlock_read(av); } @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, pgoff_t pgoff; i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); pgoff = page_to_pgoff(page); for_each_process(tsk) { struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, force_early); @@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struct list_head *to_kill, add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill); } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(struct page *page, struct task_struct *tsk; i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(tsk) { struct task_struct *t = task_early_kill(tsk, true); @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(struct page *page, add_to_kill_fsdax(t, page, vma, to_kill, pgoff); } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } #endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */ |