From: Johannes Weiner Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:35:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: vmscan: clear kswapd's special reclaim powers before exiting X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~2366 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=191743258363fd3fc6ddc4109d29a00bada9497a mm: vmscan: clear kswapd's special reclaim powers before exiting commit 71abdc15adf8c702a1dd535f8e30df50758848d2 upstream. When kswapd exits, it can end up taking locks that were previously held by allocating tasks while they waited for reclaim. Lockdep currently warns about this: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:06:34PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} usage. > kswapd2/1151 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: > (&sig->group_rwsem){+++++?}, at: exit_signals+0x24/0x130 > {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at: > mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140 > lockdep_trace_alloc+0x7a/0xe0 > kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x37/0x240 > flex_array_alloc+0x99/0x1a0 > cgroup_attach_task+0x63/0x430 > attach_task_by_pid+0x210/0x280 > cgroup_procs_write+0x16/0x20 > cgroup_file_write+0x120/0x2c0 > vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0 > SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0 > tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 > irq event stamp: 49 > hardirqs last enabled at (49): _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70 > hardirqs last disabled at (48): _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2b/0xa0 > softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process.part.24+0x627/0x15f0 > softirqs last disabled at (0): (null) > > other info that might help us debug this: > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 > ---- > lock(&sig->group_rwsem); > > lock(&sig->group_rwsem); > > *** DEADLOCK *** > > no locks held by kswapd2/1151. > > stack backtrace: > CPU: 30 PID: 1151 Comm: kswapd2 Not tainted 3.10.39+ #4 > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x19/0x1b > print_usage_bug+0x1f7/0x208 > mark_lock+0x21d/0x2a0 > __lock_acquire+0x52a/0xb60 > lock_acquire+0xa2/0x140 > down_read+0x51/0xa0 > exit_signals+0x24/0x130 > do_exit+0xb5/0xa50 > kthread+0xdb/0x100 > ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 This is because the kswapd thread is still marked as a reclaimer at the time of exit. But because it is exiting, nobody is actually waiting on it to make reclaim progress anymore, and it's nothing but a regular thread at this point. Be tidy and strip it of all its powers (PF_MEMALLOC, PF_SWAPWRITE, PF_KSWAPD, and the lockdep reclaim state) before returning from the thread function. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Gu Zheng Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Tang Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index fa94439..6ef876c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3316,7 +3316,10 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) } } + tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD); current->reclaim_state = NULL; + lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state(); + return 0; }