From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
J???r???me Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V4 -mm] mm, swap: Fix race between swapoff and some swap operations
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 09:54:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180103095408.pqxggi7voser7ia3@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9mbixi0.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com>
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 08:42:15AM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 12:29:55PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> >> On Tue 02-01-18 10:21:03, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 10:36:53AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >> > > > code path. It appears that similar situation is possible for them too.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > The file cache pages will be delete from file cache address_space before
> >> > > > address_space (embedded in inode) is freed. But they will be deleted
> >> > > > from LRU list only when its refcount dropped to zero, please take a look
> >> > > > at put_page() and release_pages(). While address_space will be freed
> >> > > > after putting reference to all file cache pages. If someone holds a
> >> > > > reference to a file cache page for quite long time, it is possible for a
> >> > > > file cache page to be in LRU list after the inode/address_space is
> >> > > > freed.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > And I found inode/address_space is freed witch call_rcu(). I don't know
> >> > > > whether this is related to page_mapping().
> >> > > >
> >> > > > This is just my understanding.
> >> > >
> >> > > Hmm, it smells like a bug of __isolate_lru_page.
> >> > >
> >> > > Ccing Mel:
> >> > >
> >> > > What locks protects address_space destroying when race happens between
> >> > > inode trauncation and __isolate_lru_page?
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > I'm just back online and have a lot of catching up to do so this is a rushed
> >> > answer and I didn't read the background of this. However the question is
> >> > somewhat ambiguous and the scope is broad as I'm not sure which race you
> >> > refer to. For file cache pages, I wouldnt' expect the address_space to be
> >> > destroyed specifically as long as the inode exists which is the structure
> >> > containing the address_space in this case. A page on the LRU being isolated
> >> > in __isolate_lru_page will have an elevated reference count which will
> >> > pin the inode until remove_mapping is called which holds the page lock
> >> > while inode truncation looking at a page for truncation also only checks
> >> > page_mapping under the page lock. Very broadly speaking, pages avoid being
> >> > added back to an inode being freed by checking the I_FREEING state.
> >>
> >> So I'm wondering what prevents the following:
> >>
> >> CPU1 CPU2
> >>
> >> truncate(inode) __isolate_lru_page()
> >> ...
> >> truncate_inode_page(mapping, page);
> >> delete_from_page_cache(page)
> >> spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> >> __delete_from_page_cache(page, NULL)
> >> page_cache_tree_delete(..)
> >> ... mapping = page_mapping(page);
> >> page->mapping = NULL;
> >> ...
> >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> >> page_cache_free_page(mapping, page)
> >> put_page(page)
> >> if (put_page_testzero(page)) -> false
> >> - inode now has no pages and can be freed including embedded address_space
> >>
> >> if (mapping && !mapping->a_ops->migratepage)
> >> - we've dereferenced mapping which is potentially already free.
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, possible if unlikely.
> >
> > Before delete_from_page_cache, we called truncate_cleanup_page so the
> > page is likely to be !PageDirty or PageWriteback which gets skipped by
> > the only caller that checks the mappping in __isolate_lru_page. The race
> > is tiny but it does exist. One way of closing it is to check the mapping
> > under the page lock which will prevent races with truncation. The
> > overhead is minimal as the calling context (compaction) is quite a heavy
> > operation anyway.
> >
>
> I think another possible fix is to use call_rcu_sched() to free inode
> (and address_space). Because __isolate_lru_page() will be called with
> LRU spinlock held and IRQ disabled, call_rcu_sched() will wait
> LRU spin_unlock and IRQ enabled.
>
Maybe, but in this particular case, I would prefer to go with something
more conventional unless there is strong evidence that it's an improvement
(which I doubt in this case given the cost of migration overall and the
corner case of migrating a dirty page).
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-03 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-20 1:26 [PATCH -V4 -mm] mm, swap: Fix race between swapoff and some swap operations Huang, Ying
2017-12-21 2:16 ` Minchan Kim
[not found] ` <871sjopllj.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com>
2017-12-21 23:58 ` Minchan Kim
2017-12-22 14:14 ` Huang, Ying
2017-12-22 16:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-25 1:28 ` Huang, Ying
2017-12-23 1:36 ` Minchan Kim
2017-12-26 5:33 ` Huang, Ying
2018-01-02 10:21 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-02 11:29 ` Jan Kara
2018-01-02 13:29 ` Mel Gorman
2018-01-03 0:42 ` Huang, Ying
2018-01-03 9:54 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2018-01-04 1:17 ` Huang, Ying
2018-01-04 10:21 ` Mel Gorman
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