Commit af53d3e9 authored by Hugh Dickins's avatar Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds

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 778dd893
("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: b56a2d8a ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity")
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 64165b1a
......@@ -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;
};
......
......@@ -1081,8 +1081,13 @@ static void shmem_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
}
spin_unlock(&sbinfo->shrinklist_lock);
}
if (!list_empty(&info->swaplist)) {
while (!list_empty(&info->swaplist)) {
/* Wait while shmem_unuse() is scanning this inode... */
wait_var_event(&info->stop_eviction,
!atomic_read(&info->stop_eviction));
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
/* ...but beware of the race if we peeked too early */
if (!atomic_read(&info->stop_eviction))
list_del_init(&info->swaplist);
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
}
......@@ -1227,36 +1232,27 @@ int shmem_unuse(unsigned int type, bool frontswap,
unsigned long *fs_pages_to_unuse)
{
struct shmem_inode_info *info, *next;
struct inode *inode;
struct inode *prev_inode = NULL;
int error = 0;
if (list_empty(&shmem_swaplist))
return 0;
mutex_lock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
/*
* The extra refcount on the inode is necessary to safely dereference
* p->next after re-acquiring the lock. New shmem inodes with swap
* get added to the end of the list and we will scan them all.
*/
list_for_each_entry_safe(info, next, &shmem_swaplist, swaplist) {
if (!info->swapped) {
list_del_init(&info->swaplist);
continue;
}
inode = igrab(&info->vfs_inode);
if (!inode)
continue;
/*
* Drop the swaplist mutex while searching the inode for swap;
* but before doing so, make sure shmem_evict_inode() will not
* remove placeholder inode from swaplist, nor let it be freed
* (igrab() would protect from unlink, but not from unmount).
*/
atomic_inc(&info->stop_eviction);
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
if (prev_inode)
iput(prev_inode);
prev_inode = inode;
error = shmem_unuse_inode(inode, type, frontswap,
error = shmem_unuse_inode(&info->vfs_inode, type, frontswap,
fs_pages_to_unuse);
cond_resched();
......@@ -1264,14 +1260,13 @@ int shmem_unuse(unsigned int type, bool frontswap,
next = list_next_entry(info, swaplist);
if (!info->swapped)
list_del_init(&info->swaplist);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&info->stop_eviction))
wake_up_var(&info->stop_eviction);
if (error)
break;
}
mutex_unlock(&shmem_swaplist_mutex);
if (prev_inode)
iput(prev_inode);
return error;
}
......@@ -2238,6 +2233,7 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode
info = SHMEM_I(inode);
memset(info, 0, (char *)inode - (char *)info);
spin_lock_init(&info->lock);
atomic_set(&info->stop_eviction, 0);
info->seals = F_SEAL_SEAL;
info->flags = flags & VM_NORESERVE;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->shrinklist);
......
......@@ -2116,12 +2116,11 @@ int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type, bool frontswap,
* Under global memory pressure, swap entries can be reinserted back
* into process space after the mmlist loop above passes over them.
*
* Limit the number of retries? No: when shmem_unuse()'s igrab() fails,
* a shmem inode using swap is being evicted; and when mmget_not_zero()
* above fails, that mm is likely to be freeing swap from exit_mmap().
* Both proceed at their own independent pace: we could move them to
* separate lists, and wait for those lists to be emptied; but it's
* easier and more robust (though cpu-intensive) just to keep retrying.
* Limit the number of retries? No: when mmget_not_zero() above fails,
* that mm is likely to be freeing swap from exit_mmap(), which proceeds
* at its own independent pace; and even shmem_writepage() could have
* been preempted after get_swap_page(), temporarily hiding that swap.
* It's easy and robust (though cpu-intensive) just to keep retrying.
*/
if (si->inuse_pages) {
if (!signal_pending(current))
......
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