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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> | 2012-07-23 13:58:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2012-07-30 18:55:59 -0400 |
| commit | 5cf02d09b50b1ee1c2d536c9cf64af5a7d433f56 (patch) | |
| tree | 7851ae064cdde3cd1eb2c0ef068bfecf24f53571 /net/sunrpc/xprtrdma | |
| parent | 506026c3ec270e18402f0c9d33fee37482c23861 (diff) | |
nfs: skip commit in releasepage if we're freeing memory for fs-related reasons
We've had some reports of a deadlock where rpciod ends up with a stack
trace like this:
PID: 2507 TASK: ffff88103691ab40 CPU: 14 COMMAND: "rpciod/14"
#0 [ffff8810343bf2f0] schedule at ffffffff814dabd9
#1 [ffff8810343bf3b8] nfs_wait_bit_killable at ffffffffa038fc04 [nfs]
#2 [ffff8810343bf3c8] __wait_on_bit at ffffffff814dbc2f
#3 [ffff8810343bf418] out_of_line_wait_on_bit at ffffffff814dbcd8
#4 [ffff8810343bf488] nfs_commit_inode at ffffffffa039e0c1 [nfs]
#5 [ffff8810343bf4f8] nfs_release_page at ffffffffa038bef6 [nfs]
#6 [ffff8810343bf528] try_to_release_page at ffffffff8110c670
#7 [ffff8810343bf538] shrink_page_list.clone.0 at ffffffff81126271
#8 [ffff8810343bf668] shrink_inactive_list at ffffffff81126638
#9 [ffff8810343bf818] shrink_zone at ffffffff8112788f
#10 [ffff8810343bf8c8] do_try_to_free_pages at ffffffff81127b1e
#11 [ffff8810343bf958] try_to_free_pages at ffffffff8112812f
#12 [ffff8810343bfa08] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffffffff8111fdad
#13 [ffff8810343bfb28] kmem_getpages at ffffffff81159942
#14 [ffff8810343bfb58] fallback_alloc at ffffffff8115a55a
#15 [ffff8810343bfbd8] ____cache_alloc_node at ffffffff8115a2d9
#16 [ffff8810343bfc38] kmem_cache_alloc at ffffffff8115b09b
#17 [ffff8810343bfc78] sk_prot_alloc at ffffffff81411808
#18 [ffff8810343bfcb8] sk_alloc at ffffffff8141197c
#19 [ffff8810343bfce8] inet_create at ffffffff81483ba6
#20 [ffff8810343bfd38] __sock_create at ffffffff8140b4a7
#21 [ffff8810343bfd98] xs_create_sock at ffffffffa01f649b [sunrpc]
#22 [ffff8810343bfdd8] xs_tcp_setup_socket at ffffffffa01f6965 [sunrpc]
#23 [ffff8810343bfe38] worker_thread at ffffffff810887d0
#24 [ffff8810343bfee8] kthread at ffffffff8108dd96
#25 [ffff8810343bff48] kernel_thread at ffffffff8100c1ca
rpciod is trying to allocate memory for a new socket to talk to the
server. The VM ends up calling ->releasepage to get more memory, and it
tries to do a blocking commit. That commit can't succeed however without
a connected socket, so we deadlock.
Fix this by setting PF_FSTRANS on the workqueue task prior to doing the
socket allocation, and having nfs_release_page check for that flag when
deciding whether to do a commit call. Also, set PF_FSTRANS
unconditionally in rpc_async_schedule since that function can also do
allocations sometimes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc/xprtrdma')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c index b446e100286..06cdbff79e4 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ xprt_rdma_connect_worker(struct work_struct *work) int rc = 0; if (!xprt->shutdown) { + current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS; xprt_clear_connected(xprt); dprintk("RPC: %s: %sconnect\n", __func__, @@ -212,10 +213,10 @@ xprt_rdma_connect_worker(struct work_struct *work) out: xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, rc); - out_clear: dprintk("RPC: %s: exit\n", __func__); xprt_clear_connecting(xprt); + current->flags &= ~PF_FSTRANS; } /* |