Re: sleeping function warning from __put_anon_vma

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Jun 01 2014 - 15:32:49 EST


On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 01:33:13PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> [PATCH] mm: fix sleeping function warning from __put_anon_vma
>
> Trinity reports BUG:
> sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:47
> in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 5787, name: trinity-c27
> __might_sleep < down_write < __put_anon_vma < page_get_anon_vma <
> migrate_pages < compact_zone < compact_zone_order < try_to_compact_pages ..
>
> Right, since conversion to mutex then rwsem, we should not put_anon_vma()
> from inside an rcu_read_lock()ed section: fix the two places that did so.
>
> Fixes: 88c22088bf23 ("mm: optimize page_lock_anon_vma() fast-path")
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Needs-Ack-from: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> mm/rmap.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- 3.15-rc7/mm/rmap.c 2014-04-13 17:24:36.680507189 -0700
> +++ linux/mm/rmap.c 2014-05-31 12:02:08.496088637 -0700
> @@ -426,12 +426,14 @@ struct anon_vma *page_get_anon_vma(struc
> * above cannot corrupt).
> */
> if (!page_mapped(page)) {
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
> anon_vma = NULL;
> + goto outer;
> }
> out:
> rcu_read_unlock();
> -
> +outer:
> return anon_vma;
> }

I think we can do that without the goto if we write something like:

if (!page_mapped(page)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
return NULL;
}

> @@ -477,9 +479,10 @@ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma_read
> }
>
> if (!page_mapped(page)) {
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
> anon_vma = NULL;
> - goto out;
> + goto outer;
> }
>
> /* we pinned the anon_vma, its safe to sleep */
> @@ -501,6 +504,7 @@ struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma_read
>
> out:
> rcu_read_unlock();
> +outer:
> return anon_vma;
> }

Same here too, I suppose.

Interesting that we never managed to hit this one; it might also make
sense to put a might_sleep() in anon_vma_free().

Other than that, I don't see anything really odd, then again, its sunday
evening and my thinking cap isn't exactly on proper.
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