[PATCH] mm/shmem: report RCU-tasks quiescent states while undoing a range

From: Breno Leitao

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 07:35:43 EST


This shows up in the Meta fleet on ftruncate() of large tmpfs files:

INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
00000000752fd185: .. nvcsw: 59455/59455 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/0
task:rocksdb:bottom state:R running task
__folio_split
find_get_entry
find_get_entries
truncate_inode_partial_folio
shmem_undo_range
shmem_setattr
notify_change
do_ftruncate
__x64_sys_ftruncate
do_syscall_64

shmem_undo_range() walks the whole of the requested range in folio_batch
sized steps, twice, and its two cond_resched() calls are the only
reschedule points in that walk.

cond_resched() is not an RCU-tasks quiescent state. Use
cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() at both points so the walk reports an
RCU-tasks quiescent state as it proceeds.

Fixes: 8315f42295d2 ("rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b572c60f2af85..bf48cb49565ea 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, uoff_t lend,
}
folio_batch_remove_exceptionals(&fbatch);
folio_batch_release(&fbatch);
- cond_resched();
+ cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
}

/*
@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, uoff_t lend,

index = start;
while (index < end) {
- cond_resched();
+ cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();

if (!find_get_entries(mapping, &index, end - 1, &fbatch,
indices)) {

---
base-commit: e657a464aba873f5eaf3ca821b6e4016674492d6
change-id: 20260918-shmem-tasks-rcu-6be37ae730f3

Best regards,
--
Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx>