On 07/15/2014 12:31 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
f00cdc6df7d7 ("shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's punched") was
buggy: Sasha sent a lockdep report to remind us that grabbing i_mutex in
the fault path is a no-no (write syscall may already hold i_mutex while
faulting user buffer).
We tried a completely different approach (see following patch) but that
proved inadequate: good enough for a rational workload, but not good
enough against trinity - which forks off so many mappings of the object
that contention on i_mmap_mutex while hole-puncher holds i_mutex builds
into serious starvation when concurrent faults force the puncher to fall
back to single-page unmap_mapping_range() searches of the i_mmap tree.
So return to the original umbrella approach, but keep away from i_mutex
this time. We really don't want to bloat every shmem inode with a new
mutex or completion, just to protect this unlikely case from trinity.
So extend the original with wait_queue_head on stack at the hole-punch
end, and wait_queue item on the stack at the fault end.
Hi, thanks a lot, I will definitely test it soon, although my reproducer
is rather limited - it already works fine with the current kernel.
Trinity will be more useful here. But there's something that caught my
eye so I though I would raise the concern now.
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static int shmem_writepage(struct page *
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
shmem_falloc = inode->i_private;
Without ACCESS_ONCE, can shmem_falloc potentially become an alias on
inode->i_private and later become re-read outside of the lock?
if (shmem_falloc &&
- !shmem_falloc->mode &&
+ !shmem_falloc->waitq &&
index >= shmem_falloc->start &&
index < shmem_falloc->next)
shmem_falloc->nr_unswapped++;
@@ -1248,38 +1248,58 @@ static int shmem_fault(struct vm_area_st
* Trinity finds that probing a hole which tmpfs is punching can
* prevent the hole-punch from ever completing: which in turn
* locks writers out with its hold on i_mutex. So refrain from
- * faulting pages into the hole while it's being punched, and
- * wait on i_mutex to be released if vmf->flags permits.
+ * faulting pages into the hole while it's being punched. Although
+ * shmem_undo_range() does remove the additions, it may be unable to
+ * keep up, as each new page needs its own unmap_mapping_range() call,
+ * and the i_mmap tree grows ever slower to scan if new vmas are added.
+ *
+ * It does not matter if we sometimes reach this check just before the
+ * hole-punch begins, so that one fault then races with the punch:
+ * we just need to make racing faults a rare case.
+ *
+ * The implementation below would be much simpler if we just used a
+ * standard mutex or completion: but we cannot take i_mutex in fault,
+ * and bloating every shmem inode for this unlikely case would be sad.
*/
if (unlikely(inode->i_private)) {
struct shmem_falloc *shmem_falloc;
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
shmem_falloc = inode->i_private;
Same here.
- if (!shmem_falloc ||
- shmem_falloc->mode != FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE ||
- vmf->pgoff < shmem_falloc->start ||
- vmf->pgoff >= shmem_falloc->next)
- shmem_falloc = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
- /*
- * i_lock has protected us from taking shmem_falloc seriously
- * once return from shmem_fallocate() went back up that stack.
- * i_lock does not serialize with i_mutex at all, but it does
- * not matter if sometimes we wait unnecessarily, or sometimes
- * miss out on waiting: we just need to make those cases rare.
- */
- if (shmem_falloc) {
+ if (shmem_falloc &&
+ shmem_falloc->waitq &&
Here it's operating outside of lock.
+ vmf->pgoff >= shmem_falloc->start &&
+ vmf->pgoff < shmem_falloc->next) {
+ wait_queue_head_t *shmem_falloc_waitq;
+ DEFINE_WAIT(shmem_fault_wait);
+
+ ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) &&
!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) {
+ /* It's polite to up mmap_sem if we can */
up_read(&vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem);
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
- return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
+ ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
}
- /* cond_resched? Leave that to GUP or return to user */
- return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
+
+ shmem_falloc_waitq = shmem_falloc->waitq;
+ prepare_to_wait(shmem_falloc_waitq, &shmem_fault_wait,
+ TASK_KILLABLE);
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ schedule();
+
+ /*
+ * shmem_falloc_waitq points into the shmem_fallocate()
+ * stack of the hole-punching task: shmem_falloc_waitq
+ * is usually invalid by the time we reach here, but
+ * finish_wait() does not dereference it in that case;
+ * though i_lock needed lest racing with wake_up_all().
+ */
+ spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ finish_wait(shmem_falloc_waitq, &shmem_fault_wait);
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ return ret;
}
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
}
error = shmem_getpage(inode, vmf->pgoff, &vmf->page, SGP_CACHE, &ret);
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