From af53d3e9e04024885de5b4fda51e5fa362ae2bd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:50:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 778dd893ae78 ("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: b56a2d8af914 ("mm: rid swapoff of quadratic complexity") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Kelley Nielsen Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vineeth Pillai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 1 + mm/shmem.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- mm/swapfile.c | 11 +++++------ 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h index f3fb1edb3526..20d815a33145 100644 --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h @@ -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; }; diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 859e8628071f..2275a0ff7c30 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1081,9 +1081,14 @@ 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); - list_del_init(&info->swaplist); + /* ...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); diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 71383625a582..cf63b5f01adf 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -2116,12 +2116,11 @@ retry: * 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)) -- 2.30.2