From 71abdc15adf8c702a1dd535f8e30df50758848d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:35:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: clear kswapd's special reclaim powers before exiting When kswapd exits, it can end up taking locks that were previously held by allocating tasks while they waited for reclaim. Lockdep currently warns about this: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:06:34PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} usage. > kswapd2/1151 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: > (&sig->group_rwsem){+++++?}, at: exit_signals+0x24/0x130 > {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at: > mark_held_locks+0xb9/0x140 > lockdep_trace_alloc+0x7a/0xe0 > kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x37/0x240 > flex_array_alloc+0x99/0x1a0 > cgroup_attach_task+0x63/0x430 > attach_task_by_pid+0x210/0x280 > cgroup_procs_write+0x16/0x20 > cgroup_file_write+0x120/0x2c0 > vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0 > SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0 > tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 > irq event stamp: 49 > hardirqs last enabled at (49): _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x70 > hardirqs last disabled at (48): _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2b/0xa0 > softirqs last enabled at (0): copy_process.part.24+0x627/0x15f0 > softirqs last disabled at (0): (null) > > other info that might help us debug this: > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 > ---- > lock(&sig->group_rwsem); > > lock(&sig->group_rwsem); > > *** DEADLOCK *** > > no locks held by kswapd2/1151. > > stack backtrace: > CPU: 30 PID: 1151 Comm: kswapd2 Not tainted 3.10.39+ #4 > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x19/0x1b > print_usage_bug+0x1f7/0x208 > mark_lock+0x21d/0x2a0 > __lock_acquire+0x52a/0xb60 > lock_acquire+0xa2/0x140 > down_read+0x51/0xa0 > exit_signals+0x24/0x130 > do_exit+0xb5/0xa50 > kthread+0xdb/0x100 > ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 This is because the kswapd thread is still marked as a reclaimer at the time of exit. But because it is exiting, nobody is actually waiting on it to make reclaim progress anymore, and it's nothing but a regular thread at this point. Be tidy and strip it of all its powers (PF_MEMALLOC, PF_SWAPWRITE, PF_KSWAPD, and the lockdep reclaim state) before returning from the thread function. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Gu Zheng Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Tang Chen Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 9149444f947d..05d41c0d7f6c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3372,7 +3372,10 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) } } + tsk->flags &= ~(PF_MEMALLOC | PF_SWAPWRITE | PF_KSWAPD); current->reclaim_state = NULL; + lockdep_clear_current_reclaim_state(); + return 0; } -- 2.20.1