[patch 0/15] LogFS take five

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Apr 07 2008, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Fri, 4 April 2008 13:46:00 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01 2008, joern at logfs.org wrote:
> > > And it is currently reasonably simple to run into a deadlock when
> > > using logfs on a block device.  The problem appears to be the block
> > > layer allocating memory for its cache without GFP_NOFS, so that under
> > > memory pressure logfs writes through block layer may recurse back to
> > > logfs writes.
> > 
> > So you mean for writes through the page cache, you are seeing pages
> > allocated with __GFP_FS set?
> 
> It sure looks like it.  On top, the patch at the bottom seems to solve
> the deadlock.  I'm just not certain it is the right fix for the problem.
> 
> > > Not entirely sure who is to blame for this bug and how to
> > > solve it.
> > 
> > A good starting point would be doing a stack trace dump in logfs if you
> > see such back recursion into the fs. A quick guess would be a missing
> > setting of mapping gfp mask?
> 
> Sorry, should have sent that right along.
> 
>  [<ffffffff802ca83f>] elv_insert+0x156/0x219
>  [<ffffffff8037d96d>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x57/0x81
>  [<ffffffff8037d804>] mutex_lock+0xd/0xf
>  [<ffffffff802c07e7>] logfs_get_wblocks+0x33/0x54
>  [<ffffffff802c025c>] logfs_write_buf+0x3d/0x322
>  [<ffffffff802bbae0>] __logfs_writepage+0x24/0x67
>  [<ffffffff802bbbfb>] logfs_writepage+0xd8/0xe3
>  [<ffffffff8024ba78>] shrink_page_list+0x2ee/0x514
>  [<ffffffff8024b466>] isolate_lru_pages+0x6c/0x1ff
>  [<ffffffff8024c2a9>] shrink_zone+0x60b/0x85b
>  [<ffffffff802cc0e5>] generic_make_request+0x329/0x364
>  [<ffffffff80245ea1>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x11/0x13
>  [<ffffffff802367b3>] up_read+0x9/0xb
>  [<ffffffff8024c638>] shrink_slab+0x13f/0x151
>  [<ffffffff8024cc1c>] try_to_free_pages+0x111/0x209
>  [<ffffffff8024859a>] __alloc_pages+0x1b1/0x2f5
>  [<ffffffff80243f6b>] read_cache_page_async+0x7e/0x15c
>  [<ffffffff8027fba9>] blkdev_readpage+0x0/0x15
>  [<ffffffff80245612>] read_cache_page+0xe/0x46
>  [<ffffffff802c2842>] bdev_read+0x61/0xee
>  [<ffffffff802bc741>] __logfs_gc_pass+0x219/0x7dc
>  [<ffffffff802bcd1b>] logfs_gc_pass+0x17/0x19
>  [<ffffffff802c0798>] logfs_flush_dirty+0x7d/0x99
>  [<ffffffff802c0800>] logfs_get_wblocks+0x4c/0x54
>  [<ffffffff802c025c>] logfs_write_buf+0x3d/0x322
>  [<ffffffff802bbe1e>] logfs_commit_write+0x77/0x7d
>  [<ffffffff80244ec2>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x49d/0x62c
>  [<ffffffff802704da>] file_update_time+0x7f/0xad
>  [<ffffffff802453a5>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x354/0x3be
>  [<ffffffff80237077>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xf/0x11
>  [<ffffffff80245abb>] filemap_fault+0x1b4/0x320
>  [<ffffffff80245473>] generic_file_aio_write+0x64/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff8025ebc8>] do_sync_write+0xe2/0x126
>  [<ffffffff80224b4f>] release_console_sem+0x1a0/0x1a9
>  [<ffffffff802344f4>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
>  [<ffffffff802ef6f3>] tty_write+0x1f2/0x20d
>  [<ffffffff802f1914>] write_chan+0x0/0x334
>  [<ffffffff8025f351>] vfs_write+0xae/0x137
>  [<ffffffff8025f824>] sys_write+0x47/0x6f
>  [<ffffffff802191c2>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa
> 
> Jörn
> 
> -- 
> Joern's library part 10:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/164849.aspx
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern at logfs.org>
> 
>  fs/block_dev.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- linux-2.6.24logfs/fs/block_dev.c~blockdev_nofs	2008-04-07 10:19:08.627413077 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.24logfs/fs/block_dev.c	2008-04-07 10:20:56.927117162 +0200
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev)
>  		inode->i_rdev = dev;
>  		inode->i_bdev = bdev;
>  		inode->i_data.a_ops = &def_blk_aops;
> -		mapping_set_gfp_mask(&inode->i_data, GFP_USER);
> +		mapping_set_gfp_mask(&inode->i_data, GFP_USER & ~__GFP_FS);
>  		inode->i_data.backing_dev_info = &default_backing_dev_info;
>  		spin_lock(&bdev_lock);
>  		list_add(&bdev->bd_list, &all_bdevs);

It's not the right fix, generally GFP_FS is fine here. So do that in
logfs when you cannot traverse back into the fs, eg

        mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~__GFP_FS;

locally.


-- 
Jens Axboe