From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: Avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb()
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 09:53:43 +0100
Message-ID: <20190114085343.15011-1-jack@suse.cz> (raw)
When superblock has lots of inodes without any pagecache (like is the
case for /proc), drop_pagecache_sb() will iterate through all of them
without dropping sb->s_inode_list_lock which can lead to softlockups
(one of our customers hit this).
Fix the problem by going to the slow path and doing cond_resched() in
case the process needs rescheduling.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
fs/drop_caches.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Andrew, can you please merge this patch? Thanks!
diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c
index 82377017130f..d31b6c72b476 100644
--- a/fs/drop_caches.c
+++ b/fs/drop_caches.c
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ /*
+ * We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip
+ * inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case
+ * we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups.
+ */
if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
- (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0)) {
+ (inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0 && !need_resched())) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
continue;
}
@@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
+ cond_resched();
invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
iput(toput_inode);
toput_inode = inode;
--
2.16.4
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2018-12-06 16:11 Jan Kara
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