Re: [PATCH] mm/migrate: fix deadlock in migrate_pages_batch() on large folios

["Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

Hi, Xiang,

Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com> writes:

> Currently, migrate_pages_batch() can lock multiple locked folios
> with an arbitrary order.  Although folio_trylock() is used to avoid
> deadlock as commit 2ef7dbb26990 ("migrate_pages: try migrate in batch
> asynchronously firstly") mentioned, it seems try_split_folio() is
> still missing.
>
> It was found by compaction stress test when I explicitly enable EROFS
> compressed files to use large folios, which case I cannot reproduce with
> the same workload if large folio support is off (current mainline).
> Typically, filesystem reads (with locked file-backed folios) could use
> another bdev/meta inode to load some other I/Os (e.g. inode extent
> metadata or caching compressed data), so the locking order will be:
>
>   file-backed folios  (A)
>      bdev/meta folios (B)
>
> The following calltrace shows the deadlock:
>    Thread 1 takes (B) lock and tries to take folio (A) lock
>    Thread 2 takes (A) lock and tries to take folio (B) lock
>
> [Thread 1]
> INFO: task stress:1824 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
>       Tainted: G           OE      6.10.0-rc7+ #6
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> task:stress          state:D stack:0     pid:1824  tgid:1824  ppid:1822   flags:0x0000000c
> Call trace:
>  __switch_to+0xec/0x138
>  __schedule+0x43c/0xcb0
>  schedule+0x54/0x198
>  io_schedule+0x44/0x70
>  folio_wait_bit_common+0x184/0x3f8
> 			<-- folio mapping ffff00036d69cb18 index 996  (**)
>  __folio_lock+0x24/0x38
>  migrate_pages_batch+0x77c/0xea0	// try_split_folio (mm/migrate.c:1486:2)
> 						// migrate_pages_batch (mm/migrate.c:1734:16)
> 		<--- LIST_HEAD(unmap_folios) has
> 			..
> 			folio mapping 0xffff0000d184f1d8 index 1711;   (*)
> 			folio mapping 0xffff0000d184f1d8 index 1712;
> 			..
>  migrate_pages+0xb28/0xe90
>  compact_zone+0xa08/0x10f0
>  compact_node+0x9c/0x180
>  sysctl_compaction_handler+0x8c/0x118
>  proc_sys_call_handler+0x1a8/0x280
>  proc_sys_write+0x1c/0x30
>  vfs_write+0x240/0x380
>  ksys_write+0x78/0x118
>  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
>  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
>  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
>  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
>  el0_svc+0x3c/0x148
>  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130
>  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
>
> [Thread 2]
> INFO: task stress:1825 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
>       Tainted: G           OE      6.10.0-rc7+ #6
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> task:stress          state:D stack:0     pid:1825  tgid:1825  ppid:1822   flags:0x0000000c
> Call trace:
>  __switch_to+0xec/0x138
>  __schedule+0x43c/0xcb0
>  schedule+0x54/0x198
>  io_schedule+0x44/0x70
>  folio_wait_bit_common+0x184/0x3f8
> 			<-- folio = 0xfffffdffc6b503c0 (mapping == 0xffff0000d184f1d8 index == 1711) (*)
>  __folio_lock+0x24/0x38
>  z_erofs_runqueue+0x384/0x9c0 [erofs]
>  z_erofs_readahead+0x21c/0x350 [erofs]       <-- folio mapping 0xffff00036d69cb18 range from [992, 1024] (**)
>  read_pages+0x74/0x328
>  page_cache_ra_order+0x26c/0x348
>  ondemand_readahead+0x1c0/0x3a0
>  page_cache_sync_ra+0x9c/0xc0
>  filemap_get_pages+0xc4/0x708
>  filemap_read+0x104/0x3a8
>  generic_file_read_iter+0x4c/0x150
>  vfs_read+0x27c/0x330
>  ksys_pread64+0x84/0xd0
>  __arm64_sys_pread64+0x28/0x40
>  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
>  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x48/0xf0
>  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
>  el0_svc+0x3c/0x148
>  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x100/0x130
>  el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x198
>
> Fixes: 5dfab109d519 ("migrate_pages: batch _unmap and _move")
> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 20cb9f5f7446..a912e4b83228 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1483,7 +1483,8 @@ static inline int try_split_folio(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *split_f
>  {
>  	int rc;
>  
> -	folio_lock(folio);
> +	if (!folio_trylock(folio))
> +		return -EAGAIN;
>  	rc = split_folio_to_list(folio, split_folios);
>  	folio_unlock(folio);
>  	if (!rc)

Good catch!  Thanks for the fixing!

The deadlock is similar as the one we fixed in commit fb3592c41a44
("migrate_pages: fix deadlock in batched migration").  But apparently,
we missed this case.

For the fix, I think that we should still respect migrate_mode because
users may prefer migration success over blocking.

@@ -1492,11 +1492,17 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_folio_t get_new_folio,
 	return rc;
 }
 
-static inline int try_split_folio(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *split_folios)
+static inline int try_split_folio(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *split_folios,
+				  enum migrate_mode mode)
 {
 	int rc;
 
-	folio_lock(folio);
+	if (mode == MIGRATE_ASYNC) {
+		if (!folio_trylock(folio))
+			return -EAGAIN;
+	} else {
+		folio_lock(folio);
+	}
 	rc = split_folio_to_list(folio, split_folios);
 	folio_unlock(folio);
 	if (!rc)


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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying