Re: [PATCH] zram: revalidate disk after capacity change

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Jul 03 2014 - 16:40:13 EST


On 06/25/2014 09:16 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Alexander reported mkswap on /dev/zram0 is failed if other process
> is opening the block device file.
>
> Step is as follows,
>
> 0. Reset the unused zram device.
> 1. Use a program that opens /dev/zram0 with O_RDWR and sleeps
> until killed.
> 2. While that program sleeps, echo the correct value to
> /sys/block/zram0/disksize.
> 3. Verify (e.g. in /proc/partitions) that the disk size is applied
> correctly. It is.
> 4. While that program still sleeps, attempt to mkswap /dev/zram0.
> This fails: mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40 KiB
>
> When I investigated, the size get by ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, xxx)
> on mkswap to get a size of blockdev was zero although zram0 has
> right size by 2.
>
> The reason is zram didn't revalidate disk after changing capacity
> so that size of blockdev's inode is not uptodate until all of file
> is close.
>
> This patch should fix the BUG.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-and-Tested-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Minchan,

This patch causes the following lockdep warning:


[ 249.545546] =================================
[ 249.546510] [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
[ 249.547201] 3.16.0-rc3-next-20140703-sasha-00022-g0b37949-dirty #761 Not tainted
[ 249.548316] ---------------------------------
[ 249.548980] inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} usage.
[ 249.550044] kswapd1/3912 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
[ 249.550044] (&zram->init_lock){+++++-}, at: zram_make_request (drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c:1047)
[ 249.550044] {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
[ 249.550044] mark_held_locks (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2523)
[ 249.550044] lockdep_trace_alloc (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2745 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2760)
[ 249.550044] kmem_cache_alloc (mm/slub.c:1246 mm/slub.c:2386 mm/slub.c:2459 mm/slub.c:2464)
[ 249.550044] bdev_alloc_inode (fs/block_dev.c:440)
[ 249.550044] alloc_inode (fs/inode.c:208)
[ 249.550044] iget5_locked (fs/inode.c:1017)
[ 249.550044] bdget (fs/block_dev.c:568)
[ 249.550044] bdget_disk (include/linux/genhd.h:268 block/genhd.c:727)
[ 249.550044] revalidate_disk (fs/block_dev.c:1042)
[ 249.550044] disksize_store (drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c:685)
[ 249.550044] dev_attr_store (drivers/base/core.c:138)
[ 249.550044] sysfs_kf_write (fs/sysfs/file.c:115)
[ 249.550044] kernfs_fop_write (fs/kernfs/file.c:308)
[ 249.550044] vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:532)
[ 249.550044] SyS_write (fs/read_write.c:584 fs/read_write.c:576)
[ 249.550044] tracesys (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:542)
[ 249.550044] irq event stamp: 4395
[ 249.550044] hardirqs last enabled at (4395): throtl_update_dispatch_stats (./arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:809 (discriminator 2) block/blk-throttle.c:982 (discriminator 2))
[ 249.550044] hardirqs last disabled at (4394): throtl_update_dispatch_stats (block/blk-throttle.c:977)
[ 249.550044] softirqs last enabled at (4252): __do_softirq (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:22 kernel/softirq.c:296)
[ 249.550044] softirqs last disabled at (4233): irq_exit (kernel/softirq.c:346 kernel/softirq.c:387)
[ 249.550044]
[ 249.550044] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 249.550044] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 249.550044]
[ 249.550044] CPU0
[ 249.550044] ----
[ 249.550044] lock(&zram->init_lock);
[ 249.550044] <Interrupt>
[ 249.550044] lock(&zram->init_lock);
[ 249.550044]
[ 249.550044] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 249.550044]
[ 249.550044] no locks held by kswapd1/3912.
[ 249.550044]
[ 249.550044] stack backtrace:
[ 249.550044] CPU: 1 PID: 3912 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 3.16.0-rc3-next-20140703-sasha-00022-g0b37949-dirty #761
[ 249.550044] ffffffff9cbff170 ffff8801b3e6f358 ffffffff99489804 0000000000000000
[ 249.550044] ffff8801b3e50000 ffff8801b3e6f3b8 ffffffff9947dc97 0000000000000000
[ 249.550044] ffffffff00000001 ffff880100000001 ffffffff9cbff280 ffff8801b3e6f3b8
[ 249.550044] Call Trace:
[ 249.550044] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
[ 249.550044] print_usage_bug (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2257)
[ 249.550044] ? print_irq_inversion_bug (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2347)
[ 249.550044] mark_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2465 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2920)
[ 249.550044] __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2821 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3138)
[ 249.550044] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2606)
[ 249.550044] ? blk_throtl_bio (include/linux/rcupdate.h:906 block/blk-throttle.c:1581)
[ 249.550044] ? blk_throtl_bio (include/linux/rcupdate.h:906 block/blk-throttle.c:1581)
[ 249.550044] ? rcu_lock_release (kernel/rcu/update.c:192)
[ 249.550044] ? blk_throtl_bio (include/linux/rcupdate.h:906 block/blk-throttle.c:1581)
[ 249.550044] lock_acquire (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3602)
[ 249.550044] ? zram_make_request (drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c:1047)
[ 249.550044] down_read (./arch/x86/include/asm/rwsem.h:83 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:44)
[ 249.550044] ? zram_make_request (drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c:1047)
[ 249.550044] ? _raw_spin_unlock (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:183)
[ 249.550044] zram_make_request (drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c:1047)
[ 249.550044] ? generic_make_request_checks (block/blk-core.c:1838)
[ 249.550044] ? put_lock_stats.isra.12 (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:254)
[ 249.550044] ? __test_set_page_writeback (include/linux/rcupdate.h:906 include/linux/memcontrol.h:171 mm/page-writeback.c:2418)
[ 249.550044] generic_make_request (block/blk-core.c:1917 (discriminator 1))
[ 249.550044] submit_bio (block/blk-core.c:1968)
[ 249.550044] ? __test_set_page_writeback (include/linux/rcupdate.h:906 include/linux/memcontrol.h:171 mm/page-writeback.c:2418)
[ 249.550044] __swap_writepage (mm/page_io.c:318)
[ 249.550044] ? page_swapcount (mm/swapfile.c:875)
[ 249.550044] ? get_parent_ip (kernel/sched/core.c:2550)
[ 249.550044] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2606)
[ 249.550044] ? _raw_spin_unlock (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:183)
[ 249.550044] ? page_swapcount (mm/swapfile.c:875)
[ 249.550044] swap_writepage (mm/page_io.c:249)
[ 249.550044] shmem_writepage (mm/shmem.c:823)
[ 249.550044] ? anon_vma_prepare (mm/rmap.c:448)
[ 249.550044] shrink_page_list (mm/vmscan.c:509 mm/vmscan.c:1021)
[ 249.550044] shrink_inactive_list (include/linux/spinlock.h:328 mm/vmscan.c:1526)
[ 249.550044] shrink_lruvec (mm/vmscan.c:1855 mm/vmscan.c:2103)
[ 249.550044] shrink_zone (mm/vmscan.c:2287)
[ 249.550044] kswapd_shrink_zone (include/linux/nodemask.h:131 include/linux/nodemask.h:131 mm/vmscan.c:2967)
[ 249.550044] balance_pgdat (mm/vmscan.c:3153)
[ 249.550044] kswapd (mm/vmscan.c:3359)
[ 249.550044] ? bit_waitqueue (kernel/sched/wait.c:291)
[ 249.550044] ? balance_pgdat (mm/vmscan.c:3276)
[ 249.550044] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:210)
[ 249.550044] ? put_lock_stats.isra.12 (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:254)
[ 249.550044] ? kthread_create_on_node (kernel/kthread.c:176)
[ 249.550044] ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:349)


Thanks,
Sasha
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