[dm-devel] [PATCH] loop: set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO for the worker thread

[Jens Axboe]

On 8/8/19 8:17 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> A deadlock with this stacktrace was observed.
> 
> The loop thread does a GFP_KERNEL allocation, it calls into dm-bufio
> shrinker and the shrinker depends on I/O completion in the dm-bufio
> subsystem.
> 
> In order to fix the deadlock (and other similar ones), we set the flag
> PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO at loop thread entry.
> 
> PID: 474    TASK: ffff8813e11f4600  CPU: 10  COMMAND: "kswapd0"
>     #0 [ffff8813dedfb938] __schedule at ffffffff8173f405
>     #1 [ffff8813dedfb990] schedule at ffffffff8173fa27
>     #2 [ffff8813dedfb9b0] schedule_timeout at ffffffff81742fec
>     #3 [ffff8813dedfba60] io_schedule_timeout at ffffffff8173f186
>     #4 [ffff8813dedfbaa0] bit_wait_io at ffffffff8174034f
>     #5 [ffff8813dedfbac0] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff8173fec8
>     #6 [ffff8813dedfbb10] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff8173ff81
>     #7 [ffff8813dedfbb90] __make_buffer_clean at ffffffffa038736f [dm_bufio]
>     #8 [ffff8813dedfbbb0] __try_evict_buffer at ffffffffa0387bb8 [dm_bufio]
>     #9 [ffff8813dedfbbd0] dm_bufio_shrink_scan at ffffffffa0387cc3 [dm_bufio]
>    #10 [ffff8813dedfbc40] shrink_slab at ffffffff811a87ce
>    #11 [ffff8813dedfbd30] shrink_zone at ffffffff811ad778
>    #12 [ffff8813dedfbdc0] kswapd at ffffffff811ae92f
>    #13 [ffff8813dedfbec0] kthread at ffffffff810a8428
>    #14 [ffff8813dedfbf50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81745242
> 
>    PID: 14127  TASK: ffff881455749c00  CPU: 11  COMMAND: "loop1"
>     #0 [ffff88272f5af228] __schedule at ffffffff8173f405
>     #1 [ffff88272f5af280] schedule at ffffffff8173fa27
>     #2 [ffff88272f5af2a0] schedule_preempt_disabled at ffffffff8173fd5e
>     #3 [ffff88272f5af2b0] __mutex_lock_slowpath at ffffffff81741fb5
>     #4 [ffff88272f5af330] mutex_lock at ffffffff81742133
>     #5 [ffff88272f5af350] dm_bufio_shrink_count at ffffffffa03865f9 [dm_bufio]
>     #6 [ffff88272f5af380] shrink_slab at ffffffff811a86bd
>     #7 [ffff88272f5af470] shrink_zone at ffffffff811ad778
>     #8 [ffff88272f5af500] do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff811adb34
>     #9 [ffff88272f5af590] try_to_free_pages at ffffffff811adef8
>    #10 [ffff88272f5af610] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffffffff811a09c3
>    #11 [ffff88272f5af710] alloc_pages_current at ffffffff811e8b71
>    #12 [ffff88272f5af760] new_slab at ffffffff811f4523
>    #13 [ffff88272f5af7b0] __slab_alloc at ffffffff8173a1b5
>    #14 [ffff88272f5af880] kmem_cache_alloc at ffffffff811f484b
>    #15 [ffff88272f5af8d0] do_blockdev_direct_IO at ffffffff812535b3
>    #16 [ffff88272f5afb00] __blockdev_direct_IO at ffffffff81255dc3
>    #17 [ffff88272f5afb30] xfs_vm_direct_IO at ffffffffa01fe3fc [xfs]
>    #18 [ffff88272f5afb90] generic_file_read_iter at ffffffff81198994
>    #19 [ffff88272f5afc50] __dta_xfs_file_read_iter_2398 at ffffffffa020c970 [xfs]
>    #20 [ffff88272f5afcc0] lo_rw_aio at ffffffffa0377042 [loop]
>    #21 [ffff88272f5afd70] loop_queue_work at ffffffffa0377c3b [loop]
>    #22 [ffff88272f5afe60] kthread_worker_fn at ffffffff810a8a0c
>    #23 [ffff88272f5afec0] kthread at ffffffff810a8428
>    #24 [ffff88272f5aff50] ret_from_fork at ffffffff81745242

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe