[ 069/109] nfs: skip commit in releasepage if were freeing memory for fs-related reasons

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 07 2012 - 18:40:18 EST

From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5cf02d09b50b1ee1c2d536c9cf64af5a7d433f56 upstream.

We've had some reports of a deadlock where rpciod ends up with a stack
trace like this:

PID: 2507 TASK: ffff88103691ab40 CPU: 14 COMMAND: "rpciod/14"
#0 [ffff8810343bf2f0] schedule at ffffffff814dabd9
#1 [ffff8810343bf3b8] nfs_wait_bit_killable at ffffffffa038fc04 [nfs]
#2 [ffff8810343bf3c8] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff814dbc2f
#3 [ffff8810343bf418] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff814dbcd8
#4 [ffff8810343bf488] nfs_commit_inode at ffffffffa039e0c1 [nfs]
#5 [ffff8810343bf4f8] nfs_release_page at ffffffffa038bef6 [nfs]
#6 [ffff8810343bf528] try_to_release_page at ffffffff8110c670
#7 [ffff8810343bf538] shrink_page_list.clone.0 at ffffffff81126271
#8 [ffff8810343bf668] shrink_inactive_list at ffffffff81126638
#9 [ffff8810343bf818] shrink_zone at ffffffff8112788f
#10 [ffff8810343bf8c8] do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff81127b1e
#11 [ffff8810343bf958] try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8112812f
#12 [ffff8810343bfa08] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffffffff8111fdad
#13 [ffff8810343bfb28] kmem_getpages at ffffffff81159942
#14 [ffff8810343bfb58] fallback_alloc at ffffffff8115a55a
#15 [ffff8810343bfbd8] ____cache_alloc_node at ffffffff8115a2d9
#16 [ffff8810343bfc38] kmem_cache_alloc at ffffffff8115b09b
#17 [ffff8810343bfc78] sk_prot_alloc at ffffffff81411808
#18 [ffff8810343bfcb8] sk_alloc at ffffffff8141197c
#19 [ffff8810343bfce8] inet_create at ffffffff81483ba6
#20 [ffff8810343bfd38] __sock_create at ffffffff8140b4a7
#21 [ffff8810343bfd98] xs_create_sock at ffffffffa01f649b [sunrpc]
#22 [ffff8810343bfdd8] xs_tcp_setup_socket at ffffffffa01f6965 [sunrpc]
#23 [ffff8810343bfe38] worker_thread at ffffffff810887d0
#24 [ffff8810343bfee8] kthread at ffffffff8108dd96
#25 [ffff8810343bff48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c1ca

rpciod is trying to allocate memory for a new socket to talk to the
server. The VM ends up calling ->releasepage to get more memory, and it
tries to do a blocking commit. That commit can't succeed however without
a connected socket, so we deadlock.

Fix this by setting PF_FSTRANS on the workqueue task prior to doing the
socket allocation, and having nfs_release_page check for that flag when
deciding whether to do a commit call. Also, set PF_FSTRANS
unconditionally in rpc_async_schedule since that function can also do
allocations sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/nfs/file.c | 7 +++++--
net/sunrpc/sched.c | 2 ++
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c | 3 ++-
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c | 10 ++++++++++
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -451,8 +451,11 @@ static int nfs_release_page(struct page

dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: release_page(%p)\n", page);

- /* Only do I/O if gfp is a superset of GFP_KERNEL */
- if (mapping && (gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL) {
+ /* Only do I/O if gfp is a superset of GFP_KERNEL, and we're not
+ * doing this memory reclaim for a fs-related allocation.
+ */
+ if (mapping && (gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL &&
+ !(current->flags & PF_FSTRANS)) {
int how = FLUSH_SYNC;

/* Don't let kswapd deadlock waiting for OOM RPC calls */
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -790,7 +790,9 @@ void rpc_execute(struct rpc_task *task)

static void rpc_async_schedule(struct work_struct *work)
{
+ current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS;
__rpc_execute(container_of(work, struct rpc_task, u.tk_work));
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS;
}

/**
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ xprt_rdma_connect_worker(struct work_str
int rc = 0;

if (!xprt->shutdown) {
+ current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS;
xprt_clear_connected(xprt);

dprintk("RPC: %s: %sconnect\n", __func__,
@@ -212,10 +213,10 @@ xprt_rdma_connect_worker(struct work_str

out:
xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, rc);
-
out_clear:
dprintk("RPC: %s: exit\n", __func__);
xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS;
}

/*
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -1895,6 +1895,8 @@ static void xs_local_setup_socket(struct
if (xprt->shutdown)
goto out;

+ current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS;
+
clear_bit(XPRT_CONNECTION_ABORT, &xprt->state);
status = __sock_create(xprt->xprt_net, AF_LOCAL,
SOCK_STREAM, 0, &sock, 1);
@@ -1928,6 +1930,7 @@ static void xs_local_setup_socket(struct
out:
xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS;
}

static void xs_udp_finish_connecting(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, struct socket *sock)
@@ -1970,6 +1973,8 @@ static void xs_udp_setup_socket(struct w
if (xprt->shutdown)
goto out;

+ current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS;
+
/* Start by resetting any existing state */
xs_reset_transport(transport);
sock = xs_create_sock(xprt, transport,
@@ -1988,6 +1993,7 @@ static void xs_udp_setup_socket(struct w
out:
xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS;
}

/*
@@ -2113,6 +2119,8 @@ static void xs_tcp_setup_socket(struct w
if (xprt->shutdown)
goto out;

+ current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS;
+
if (!sock) {
clear_bit(XPRT_CONNECTION_ABORT, &xprt->state);
sock = xs_create_sock(xprt, transport,
@@ -2162,6 +2170,7 @@ static void xs_tcp_setup_socket(struct w
case -EINPROGRESS:
case -EALREADY:
xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS;
return;
case -EINVAL:
/* Happens, for instance, if the user specified a link
@@ -2174,6 +2183,7 @@ out_eagain:
out:
xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
+ current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS;
}

/**


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