Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: fix invalidate_complete_page2 lock ordering

[Mel Gorman]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:51:47PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> In fuzzing with trinity, lockdep protested "possible irq lock inversion
> dependency detected" when isolate_lru_page() reenabled interrupts while
> still holding the supposedly irq-safe tree_lock:
> 
> invalidate_inode_pages2
>   invalidate_complete_page2
>     spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock)
>     clear_page_mlock
>       isolate_lru_page
>         spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock)
> 
> isolate_lru_page() is correct to enable interrupts unconditionally:
> invalidate_complete_page2() is incorrect to call clear_page_mlock()
> while holding tree_lock, which is supposed to nest inside lru_lock.
> 
> Both truncate_complete_page() and invalidate_complete_page() call
> clear_page_mlock() before taking tree_lock to remove page from
> radix_tree.  I guess invalidate_complete_page2() preferred to test
> PageDirty (again) under tree_lock before committing to the munlock;
> but since the page has already been unmapped, its state is already
> somewhat inconsistent, and no worse if clear_page_mlock() moved up.
> 
> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> Deciphered-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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