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author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2019-04-18 17:50:13 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-04-19 09:46:04 -0700 |
commit | af53d3e9e04024885de5b4fda51e5fa362ae2bd8 (patch) | |
tree | ab2a56b0bafc76d99dcd2924f22f0fed76f4ae2e /include | |
parent | 64165b1affc5bc16231ac971e66aae7d68d57f2c (diff) | |
download | linux-af53d3e9e04024885de5b4fda51e5fa362ae2bd8.tar.bz2 |
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.h | 1 |
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; }; |