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| author | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> | 2020-06-01 21:46:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-02 10:59:07 -0700 |
| commit | f2c817bed58d9be2051fad1d18e167e173c0c227 (patch) | |
| tree | 445bd1c5a8a3639aa596ef6d4137ae44619a78c4 /mm/readahead.c | |
| parent | 2d8163e4899dad92175eedd1c2326c875eaa74fa (diff) | |
mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path
Ensure that memory allocations in the readahead path do not attempt to
reclaim file-backed pages, which could lead to a deadlock. It is
possible, though unlikely this is the root cause of a problem observed
by Cong Wang.
Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-16-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/readahead.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/readahead.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/readahead.c b/mm/readahead.c index 73cb59ed5cff..3c9a8dd7c56c 100644 --- a/mm/readahead.c +++ b/mm/readahead.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include <linux/mm_inline.h> #include <linux/blk-cgroup.h> #include <linux/fadvise.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include "internal.h" @@ -186,6 +187,18 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long i; /* + * Partway through the readahead operation, we will have added + * locked pages to the page cache, but will not yet have submitted + * them for I/O. Adding another page may need to allocate memory, + * which can trigger memory reclaim. Telling the VM we're in + * the middle of a filesystem operation will cause it to not + * touch file-backed pages, preventing a deadlock. Most (all?) + * filesystems already specify __GFP_NOFS in their mapping's + * gfp_mask, but let's be explicit here. + */ + unsigned int nofs = memalloc_nofs_save(); + + /* * Preallocate as many pages as we will need. */ for (i = 0; i < nr_to_read; i++) { @@ -229,6 +242,7 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping, * will then handle the error. */ read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, false); + memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_cache_readahead_unbounded); |