[RFC PATCH] jffs2: fix recursive fs_reclaim deadlock

[Zhihao Cheng]

在 2024/3/15 20:19, Qingfang Deng 写道:
> Hi Zhihao,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 7:19 PM Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1 at huawei.com> wrote:
>> I think it's a false positive warning. Jffs2 is trying to get root inode
>> in process '#1', which means that the filesystem is not mounted
>> yet(Because d_make_root is after jffs2_iget(sb,1), there is no way to
>> access other inodes.), so it is impossible that jffs2 inode is being
>> evicted in '#0'.
>>
> 
> You're right that process '#1' is getting the root inode. However,
> lockdep only records the stack of the first unique lock ordering (see
> https://docs.kernel.org/locking/lockdep-design.html#performance ), and
> there are many occasions where GFP_KERNEL is used inside a
> jffs2_inode_info::sem 's critical section.
> .
> 
Allocating memory without GFP_NOFS flags under sleeping lock is a normal 
thing. The vfs_write is an example(eg. ext4), page is allocated with 
FGP_WRITEBEGIN flag(no FGP_NOFS) when holding inode lock.