z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc()
authorVitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:56:14 +0000 (14:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 01:24:20 +0000 (18:24 -0700)
Stress testing of the current z3fold implementation on a 8-core system
revealed it was possible that a z3fold page deleted from its unbuddied
list in z3fold_alloc() would be put on another unbuddied list by
z3fold_free() while z3fold_alloc() is still processing it.  This has
been introduced with commit 5a27aa822 ("z3fold: add kref refcounting")
due to the removal of special handling of a z3fold page not on any list
in z3fold_free().

To fix this, the z3fold page lock should be taken in z3fold_alloc()
before the pool lock is released.  To avoid deadlocking, we just try to
lock the page as soon as we get a hold of it, and if trylock fails, we
drop this page and take the next one.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: <Oleksiy.Avramchenko@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/z3fold.c

index f9492bc..54f63c4 100644 (file)
@@ -185,6 +185,12 @@ static inline void z3fold_page_lock(struct z3fold_header *zhdr)
        spin_lock(&zhdr->page_lock);
 }
 
+/* Try to lock a z3fold page */
+static inline int z3fold_page_trylock(struct z3fold_header *zhdr)
+{
+       return spin_trylock(&zhdr->page_lock);
+}
+
 /* Unlock a z3fold page */
 static inline void z3fold_page_unlock(struct z3fold_header *zhdr)
 {
@@ -385,7 +391,7 @@ static int z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
                        spin_lock(&pool->lock);
                        zhdr = list_first_entry_or_null(&pool->unbuddied[i],
                                                struct z3fold_header, buddy);
-                       if (!zhdr) {
+                       if (!zhdr || !z3fold_page_trylock(zhdr)) {
                                spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
                                continue;
                        }
@@ -394,7 +400,6 @@ static int z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
                        spin_unlock(&pool->lock);
 
                        page = virt_to_page(zhdr);
-                       z3fold_page_lock(zhdr);
                        if (zhdr->first_chunks == 0) {
                                if (zhdr->middle_chunks != 0 &&
                                    chunks >= zhdr->start_middle)