From: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> 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(): [<0>] balance_dirty_pages+0x724/0x905 [<0>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0x254/0x390 [<0>] fault_dirty_shared_page.isra.96+0x4a/0x90 [<0>] do_wp_page+0x33e/0x400 [<0>] __handle_mm_fault+0x6f0/0xfa0 [<0>] handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x200 [<0>] __do_page_fault+0x22b/0x4a0 [<0>] page_fault+0x45/0x50 [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff Somebody tries to change the address space, contending for the mmap_sem in write-mode: [<0>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed_killable+0x13/0x20 [<0>] do_mprotect_pkey+0xa8/0x330 [<0>] SyS_mprotect+0xf/0x20 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2 [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff The waiting writer locks out all subsequent readers to avoid lock starvation, and several threads can be seen hanging like this: [<0>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x14/0x30 [<0>] proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xa0/0x480 [<0>] __vfs_read+0x23/0x140 [<0>] vfs_read+0x87/0x130 [<0>] SyS_read+0x42/0x90 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x100 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2 [<0>] 0xffffffffffffffff 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. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> --- mm/memory.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 2e796372927f..da5eb1d67447 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2221,12 +2221,14 @@ static vm_fault_t do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf) * * The function expects the page to be locked and unlocks it. */ -static void fault_dirty_shared_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, - struct page *page) +static int fault_dirty_shared_page(struct vm_fault *vmf) { + struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma; struct address_space *mapping; + struct page *page = vmf->page; bool dirtied; bool page_mkwrite = vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite; + int ret = 0; dirtied = set_page_dirty(page); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(page), page); @@ -2239,16 +2241,36 @@ static void fault_dirty_shared_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, mapping = page_rmapping(page); unlock_page(page); + if (!page_mkwrite) + file_update_time(vma->vm_file); + + /* + * Throttle page dirtying rate down to writeback speed. + * + * mapping may be NULL here because some device drivers do not + * set page.mapping but still dirty their pages + * + * Drop the mmap_sem before waiting on IO, if we can. The file + * is pinning the mapping, as per above. + */ if ((dirtied || page_mkwrite) && mapping) { - /* - * Some device drivers do not set page.mapping - * but still dirty their pages - */ + struct file *fpin = NULL; + + if ((vmf->flags & + (FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) == + FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) { + fpin = get_file(vma->vm_file); + up_read(&vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem); + ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY; + } + balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping); + + if (fpin) + fput(fpin); } - if (!page_mkwrite) - file_update_time(vma->vm_file); + return ret; } /* @@ -2491,6 +2513,7 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf) __releases(vmf->ptl) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma; + int ret = VM_FAULT_WRITE; get_page(vmf->page); @@ -2514,10 +2537,10 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf) wp_page_reuse(vmf); lock_page(vmf->page); } - fault_dirty_shared_page(vma, vmf->page); + ret |= fault_dirty_shared_page(vmf); put_page(vmf->page); - return VM_FAULT_WRITE; + return ret; } /* @@ -3561,7 +3584,7 @@ static vm_fault_t do_shared_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) return ret; } - fault_dirty_shared_page(vma, vmf->page); + ret |= fault_dirty_shared_page(vmf); return ret; } @@ -3576,7 +3599,6 @@ static vm_fault_t do_shared_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) static vm_fault_t do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma; - struct mm_struct *vm_mm = vma->vm_mm; vm_fault_t ret; /* @@ -3617,7 +3639,12 @@ static vm_fault_t do_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) /* preallocated pagetable is unused: free it */ if (vmf->prealloc_pte) { - pte_free(vm_mm, vmf->prealloc_pte); + /* + * XXX: Accessing vma->vm_mm now is not safe. The page + * fault handler may have dropped the mmap_sem a long + * time ago. Only s390 derefs that parameter. + */ + pte_free(vma->vm_mm, vmf->prealloc_pte); vmf->prealloc_pte = NULL; } return ret; -- 2.23.0
