One of our services is observing hanging ps/top/etc under heavy write
IO, and the task states show this is an mmap_sem priority inversion:
A write fault is holding the mmap_sem in read-mode and waiting for
(heavily cgroup-limited) IO in balance_dirty_pages():
balance_dirty_pages+0x724/0x905
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x254/0x390
fault_dirty_shared_page.isra.96+0x4a/0x90
do_wp_page+0x33e/0x400
__handle_mm_fault+0x6f0/0xfa0
handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x200
__do_page_fault+0x22b/0x4a0
page_fault+0x45/0x50
Somebody tries to change the address space, contending for the mmap_sem in
write-mode:
call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x13/0x20
do_mprotect_pkey+0xa8/0x330
SyS_mprotect+0xf/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
The waiting writer locks out all subsequent readers to avoid lock
starvation, and several threads can be seen hanging like this:
call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30
proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xa0/0x480
__vfs_read+0x23/0x140
vfs_read+0x87/0x130
SyS_read+0x42/0x90
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2
To fix this, do what we do for cache read faults already: drop the
mmap_sem before calling into anything IO bound, in this case the
balance_dirty_pages() function, and return VM_FAULT_RETRY.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190924194238.GA29030@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Enable THP for text section of non-shmem files", v10;
This patchset follows up discussion at LSF/MM 2019. The motivation is to
put text section of an application in THP, and thus reduces iTLB miss rate
and improves performance. Both Facebook and Oracle showed strong
interests to this feature.
To make reviews easier, this set aims a mininal valid product. Current
version of the work does not have any changes to file system specific
code. This comes with some limitations (discussed later).
This set enables an application to "hugify" its text section by simply
running something like:
madvise(0x600000, 0x80000, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
Before this call, the /proc/<pid>/maps looks like:
00400000-074d0000 r-xp 00000000 00:27 2006927 app
After this call, part of the text section is split out and mapped to
THP:
00400000-00425000 r-xp 00000000 00:27 2006927 app
00600000-00e00000 r-xp 00200000 00:27 2006927 app <<< on THP
00e00000-074d0000 r-xp 00a00000 00:27 2006927 app
Limitations:
1. This only works for text section (vma with VM_DENYWRITE).
2. Original limitation #2 is removed in v3.
We gated this feature with an experimental config, READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS.
Once we get better support on the write path, we can remove the config and
enable it by default.
Tested cases:
1. Tested with btrfs and ext4.
2. Tested with real work application (memcache like caching service).
3. Tested with "THP aware uprobe":
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=131339
This patch (of 7):
Currently, filemap_fault() avoids race condition with truncate by checking
page->mapping == mapping. This does not work for compound pages. This
patch let it check compound_head(page)->mapping instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190801184244.3169074-2-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Functions like filemap_write_and_wait_range() should do nothing if inode
has no dirty pages or pages currently under writeback. But they anyway
construct struct writeback_control and this does some atomic operations if
CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK=y - on fast path it locks inode->i_lock and
updates state of writeback ownership, on slow path might be more work.
Current this path is safely avoided only when inode mapping has no pages.
For example generic_file_read_iter() calls filemap_write_and_wait_range()
at each O_DIRECT read - pretty hot path.
This patch skips starting new writeback if mapping has no dirty tags set.
If writeback is already in progress filemap_write_and_wait_range() will
wait for it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156378816804.1087.8607636317907921438.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't let userspace write to an active swap file because the kernel
effectively has a long term lease on the storage and things could get
seriously corrupted if we let this happen.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Patch series "fix filler_t callback type mismatches", v2.
Casting mapping->a_ops->readpage to filler_t causes an indirect call
type mismatch with Control-Flow Integrity checking. This change fixes
the mismatch in read_cache_page_gfp and read_mapping_page by adding
using a NULL filler argument as an indication to call ->readpage
directly, and by passing the right parameter callbacks in nfs and jffs2.
This patch (of 4):
Code cleanup.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520055731.24538-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Many bug fixes and cleanups, and an optimization for case-insensitive
lookups"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix coverity warning on error path of filename setup
ext4: replace ktype default_attrs with default_groups
ext4: rename htree_inline_dir_to_tree() to ext4_inlinedir_to_tree()
ext4: refactor initialize_dirent_tail()
ext4: rename "dirent_csum" functions to use "dirblock"
ext4: allow directory holes
jbd2: drop declaration of journal_sync_buffer()
ext4: use jbd2_inode dirty range scoping
jbd2: introduce jbd2_inode dirty range scoping
mm: add filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors()
ext4: remove redundant assignment to node
ext4: optimize case-insensitive lookups
ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug
ext4: clean up kerneldoc warnigns when building with W=1
ext4: only set project inherit bit for directory
ext4: enforce the immutable flag on open files
ext4: don't allow any modifications to an immutable file
jbd2: fix typo in comment of journal_submit_inode_data_buffers
jbd2: fix some print format mistakes
ext4: gracefully handle ext4_break_layouts() failure during truncate
Pull copy_file_range updates from Darrick Wong:
"This fixes numerous parameter checking problems and inconsistent
behaviors in the new(ish) copy_file_range system call.
Now the system call will actually check its range parameters
correctly; refuse to copy into files for which the caller does not
have sufficient privileges; update mtime and strip setuid like file
writes are supposed to do; and allows copying up to the EOF of the
source file instead of failing the call like we used to.
Summary:
- Create a generic copy_file_range handler and make individual
filesystems responsible for calling it (i.e. no more assuming that
do_splice_direct will work or is appropriate)
- Refactor copy_file_range and remap_range parameter checking where
they are the same
- Install missing copy_file_range parameter checking(!)
- Remove suid/sgid and update mtime like any other file write
- Change the behavior so that a copy range crossing the source file's
eof will result in a short copy to the source file's eof instead of
EINVAL
- Permit filesystems to decide if they want to handle
cross-superblock copy_file_range in their local handlers"
* tag 'copy-file-range-fixes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
fuse: copy_file_range needs to strip setuid bits and update timestamps
vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices
xfs: use file_modified() helper
vfs: introduce file_modified() helper
vfs: add missing checks to copy_file_range
vfs: remove redundant checks from generic_remap_checks()
vfs: introduce generic_file_rw_checks()
vfs: no fallback for ->copy_file_range
vfs: introduce generic_copy_file_range()
In the spirit of filemap_fdatawait_range() and
filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(), introduce
filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors() which both takes a range upon
which to wait and does not clear errors from the address space.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Like the clone and dedupe interfaces we've recently fixed, the
copy_file_range() implementation is missing basic sanity, limits and
boundary condition tests on the parameters that are passed to it
from userspace. Create a new "generic_copy_file_checks()" function
modelled on the generic_remap_checks() function to provide this
missing functionality.
[Amir] Shorten copy length instead of checking pos_in limits
because input file size already abides by the limits.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
The access limit checks on input file range in generic_remap_checks()
are redundant because the input file size is guaranteed to be within
limits and pos+len are already checked to be within input file size.
Beyond the fact that the check cannot fail, if it would have failed,
it could return -EFBIG for input file range error. There is no precedent
for that. -EFBIG is returned in syscalls that would change file length.
With that call removed, we can fold generic_access_check_limits() into
generic_write_check_limits().
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Ira Weiny
Johannes Weiner
Konstantin Khlebnikov
Ben Dooks
Song Liu
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Darrick J. Wong
Yang Shi
Christoph Hellwig
Linus Torvalds
Ross Zwisler
Amir Goldstein