1. 01 May, 2017 3 commits
    • Mike Snitzer's avatar
      7e25a760
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds · 390020ad
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      dm-bufio checks a watermark when it allocates a new buffer in
      __bufio_new().  However, it doesn't check the watermark when the user
      changes /sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/max_cache_size_bytes.
      
      This may result in a problem - if the watermark is high enough so that
      all possible buffers are allocated and if the user lowers the value of
      "max_cache_size_bytes", the watermark will never be checked against the
      new value because no new buffer would be allocated.
      
      To fix this, change __evict_old_buffers() so that it checks the
      watermark.  __evict_old_buffers() is called every 30 seconds, so if the
      user reduces "max_cache_size_bytes", dm-bufio will react to this change
      within 30 seconds and decrease memory consumption.
      
      Depends-on: 1b0fb5a5 ("dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock")
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      390020ad
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock · 1b0fb5a5
      Mikulas Patocka authored
      __get_memory_limit() tests if dm_bufio_cache_size changed and calls
      __cache_size_refresh() if it did.  It takes dm_bufio_clients_lock while
      it already holds the client lock.  However, lock ordering is violated
      because in cleanup_old_buffers() dm_bufio_clients_lock is taken before
      the client lock.
      
      This results in a possible deadlock and lockdep engine warning.
      
      Fix this deadlock by changing mutex_lock() to mutex_trylock().  If the
      lock can't be taken, it will be re-checked next time when a new buffer
      is allocated.
      
      Also add "unlikely" to the if condition, so that the optimizer assumes
      that the condition is false.
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      1b0fb5a5
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