Hi Linus and Stephen,
tmpfs deadlocks when writing into a file from a mapping of the same
file.
The problem is the following:
- shmem_file_write may call shmem_no_page and calls
shmem_getpage_locked later,
- shmem_no_page calls shmem_getpage_locked
- shmem_getpage_locked may call shmem_writepage on page allocation
- shmem_file_write holds the inode semaphore
- shmem_getpage_locked prevent races against shmem_writepage with the
shmem spinlock
- shmem_getpage_locked needs serialization against itself and
shmem_truncate
The last was done with the inode semaphore, which deadlocks with
shmem_write
So I see two choices:
1) Do not serialise the whole of shmem_getpage_locked but protect
critical pathes with the spinlock and do retries after sleeps
2) Add another semaphore to serialize shmem_getpage_locked and
shmem_truncate
I tried some time to get 1) done but the retry logic became way too
complicated. So the attached patch implements 2)
I still think it's ugly to add another semaphore, but it works.
Greetings
Christoph
diff -uNr 2.4.4/include/linux/shmem_fs.h c/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
--- 2.4.4/include/linux/shmem_fs.h Sun Apr 29 20:33:00 2001
+++ c/include/linux/shmem_fs.h Sun Apr 29 22:43:56 2001
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
struct shmem_inode_info {
spinlock_t lock;
+ struct semaphore sem;
unsigned long max_index;
swp_entry_t i_direct[SHMEM_NR_DIRECT]; /* for the first blocks */
swp_entry_t **i_indirect; /* doubly indirect blocks */
diff -uNr 2.4.4/mm/shmem.c c/mm/shmem.c
--- 2.4.4/mm/shmem.c Mon Apr 30 09:45:39 2001
+++ c/mm/shmem.c Tue May 1 15:15:38 2001
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
swp_entry_t **base, **ptr, **last;
struct shmem_inode_info * info = &inode->u.shmem_i;
+ down(&info->sem);
inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
spin_lock (&info->lock);
index = (inode->i_size + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@
info->swapped -= freed;
shmem_recalc_inode(inode);
spin_unlock (&info->lock);
+ up(&info->sem);
}
static void shmem_delete_inode(struct inode * inode)
@@ -281,15 +283,12 @@
* still need to guard against racing with shm_writepage(), which might
* be trying to move the page to the swap cache as we run.
*/
-static struct page * shmem_getpage_locked(struct inode * inode, unsigned long idx)
+static struct page * shmem_getpage_locked(struct shmem_inode_info *info, struct inode
+* inode, unsigned long idx)
{
struct address_space * mapping = inode->i_mapping;
- struct shmem_inode_info *info;
struct page * page;
swp_entry_t *entry;
- info = &inode->u.shmem_i;
-
repeat:
page = find_lock_page(mapping, idx);
if (page)
@@ -393,6 +392,7 @@
static int shmem_getpage(struct inode * inode, unsigned long idx, struct page **ptr)
{
+ struct shmem_inode_info *info;
struct address_space * mapping = inode->i_mapping;
int error;
@@ -407,27 +407,28 @@
page_cache_release(*ptr);
}
- down (&inode->i_sem);
- /* retest we may have slept */
+ info = &inode->u.shmem_i;
+ down (&info->sem);
+ /* retest we may have slept */
+
+ *ptr = ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
if (inode->i_size < (loff_t) idx * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
- goto sigbus;
- *ptr = shmem_getpage_locked(inode, idx);
+ goto failed;
+
+ *ptr = shmem_getpage_locked(&inode->u.shmem_i, inode, idx);
if (IS_ERR (*ptr))
goto failed;
+
UnlockPage(*ptr);
- up (&inode->i_sem);
+ up (&info->sem);
return 0;
failed:
- up (&inode->i_sem);
+ up (&info->sem);
error = PTR_ERR(*ptr);
- *ptr = NOPAGE_OOM;
- if (error != -EFBIG)
- *ptr = NOPAGE_SIGBUS;
- return error;
-sigbus:
- up (&inode->i_sem);
*ptr = NOPAGE_SIGBUS;
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (error == -ENOMEM)
+ *ptr = NOPAGE_OOM;
+ return error;
}
struct page * shmem_nopage(struct vm_area_struct * vma, unsigned long address, int
no_share)
@@ -500,6 +501,7 @@
struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode, int dev)
{
struct inode * inode;
+ struct shmem_inode_info *info;
spin_lock (&sb->u.shmem_sb.stat_lock);
if (!sb->u.shmem_sb.free_inodes) {
@@ -519,7 +521,9 @@
inode->i_rdev = to_kdev_t(dev);
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &shmem_aops;
inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
- spin_lock_init (&inode->u.shmem_i.lock);
+ info = &inode->u.shmem_i;
+ spin_lock_init (&info->lock);
+ sema_init (&info->sem, 1);
switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
default:
init_special_inode(inode, mode, dev);
@@ -549,6 +553,7 @@
shmem_file_write(struct file *file,const char *buf,size_t count,loff_t *ppos)
{
struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
+ struct shmem_inode_info *info;
unsigned long limit = current->rlim[RLIMIT_FSIZE].rlim_cur;
loff_t pos;
struct page *page;
@@ -624,7 +629,11 @@
__get_user(dummy, buf+bytes-1);
}
- page = shmem_getpage_locked(inode, index);
+ info = &inode->u.shmem_i;
+ down (&info->sem);
+ page = shmem_getpage_locked(info, inode, index);
+ up (&info->sem);
+
status = PTR_ERR(page);
if (IS_ERR(page))
break;
@@ -635,7 +644,6 @@
}
kaddr = kmap(page);
-// can this do a truncated write? cr
status = copy_from_user(kaddr+offset, buf, bytes);
kunmap(page);
if (status)
@@ -932,7 +940,7 @@
inode = dentry->d_inode;
down(&inode->i_sem);
- page = shmem_getpage_locked(inode, 0);
+ page = shmem_getpage_locked(&inode->u.shmem_i, inode, 0);
if (IS_ERR(page))
goto fail;
kaddr = kmap(page);
-
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