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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 18/18] NFS: swap-out must always use STABLE writes.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:48:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <163969850347.20885.5566025433915169963.stgit@noble.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <163969801519.20885.3977673503103544412.stgit@noble.brown>

The commit handling code is not safe against memory-pressure deadlocks
when writing to swap.  In particular, nfs_commitdata_alloc() blocks
indefinitely waiting for memory, and this can consume all available
workqueue threads.

swap-out most likely uses STABLE writes anyway as COND_STABLE indicates
that a stable write should be used if the write fits in a single
request, and it normally does.  However if we ever swap with a small
wsize, or gather unusually large numbers of pages for a single write,
this might change.

For safety, make it explicit in the code that direct writes used for swap
must always use FLUSH_COND_STABLE.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
 fs/nfs/direct.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index eeff1b4e1a7c..1317465150a6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ static const struct nfs_pgio_completion_ops nfs_direct_write_completion_ops = {
  */
 static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
 					       struct iov_iter *iter,
-					       loff_t pos)
+					       loff_t pos, int ioflags)
 {
 	struct nfs_pageio_descriptor desc;
 	struct inode *inode = dreq->inode;
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
 	size_t requested_bytes = 0;
 	size_t wsize = max_t(size_t, NFS_SERVER(inode)->wsize, PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	nfs_pageio_init_write(&desc, inode, FLUSH_COND_STABLE, false,
+	nfs_pageio_init_write(&desc, inode, ioflags, false,
 			      &nfs_direct_write_completion_ops);
 	desc.pg_dreq = dreq;
 	get_dreq(dreq);
@@ -904,6 +904,7 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	struct nfs_direct_req *dreq;
 	struct nfs_lock_context *l_ctx;
 	loff_t pos, end;
+	int ioflags = swap ? FLUSH_COND_STABLE : FLUSH_STABLE;
 
 	dfprintk(FILE, "NFS: direct write(%pD2, %zd@%Ld)\n",
 		file, iov_iter_count(iter), (long long) iocb->ki_pos);
@@ -946,7 +947,7 @@ ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	if (!swap)
 		nfs_start_io_direct(inode);
 
-	requested = nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(dreq, iter, pos);
+	requested = nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(dreq, iter, pos, ioflags);
 
 	if (mapping->nrpages) {
 		invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping,




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-17  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-16 23:48 [PATCH 00/18 V2] Repair SWAP-over-NFS NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 04/18] MM: perform async writes to SWP_FS_OPS swap-space NeilBrown
2021-12-21  8:41   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 02/18] MM: create new mm/swap.h header file NeilBrown
2021-12-17 10:03   ` kernel test robot
2021-12-21  8:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 06/18] MM: submit multipage reads for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space NeilBrown
2021-12-17  7:09   ` kernel test robot
2021-12-21  8:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 05/18] MM: reclaim mustn't enter FS " NeilBrown
2021-12-17  8:51   ` kernel test robot
2021-12-21  8:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 03/18] MM: use ->swap_rw for reads from " NeilBrown
2021-12-20 12:16   ` Mark Hemment
2021-12-21  8:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 01/18] Structural cleanup for filesystem-based swap NeilBrown
2021-12-17 10:33   ` kernel test robot
2021-12-21  8:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 09/18] NFS: rename nfs_direct_IO and use as ->swap_rw NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 10/18] NFS: swap IO handling is slightly different for O_DIRECT IO NeilBrown
2021-12-20 15:02   ` Mark Hemment
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 08/18] MM: Add AS_CAN_DIO mapping flag NeilBrown
2021-12-19 13:38   ` Mark Hemment
2021-12-19 20:59     ` NeilBrown
2021-12-21  8:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-19  3:54     ` NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 11/18] SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 12/18] SUNRPC/auth: " NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 15/18] NFS: discard NFS_RPC_SWAPFLAGS and RPC_TASK_ROOTCREDS NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 13/18] SUNRPC/xprt: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 17/18] NFSv4: keep state manager thread active if swap is enabled NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 14/18] SUNRPC: remove scheduling boost for "SWAPPER" tasks NeilBrown
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 07/18] MM: submit multipage write for SWP_FS_OPS swap-space NeilBrown
2021-12-20 12:21   ` Mark Hemment
2021-12-16 23:48 ` [PATCH 16/18] SUNRPC: improve 'swap' handling: scheduling and PF_MEMALLOC NeilBrown
2021-12-17 21:29 ` [PATCH 00/18 V2] Repair SWAP-over-NFS Anna Schumaker
2021-12-19 21:07   ` NeilBrown
2021-12-21  8:48     ` Christoph Hellwig

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