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author | Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> | 2013-06-12 14:04:49 -0700 |
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committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-06-19 02:17:01 +0100 |
commit | 1d9910635dfc24ecac41129b5f4752b403194ab4 (patch) | |
tree | ab4ce3509e1edad32560b3e57ba61d1bebb73d41 /mm/hugetlb.c | |
parent | d3bfb85149dc6f19e914125c65167861c05b1511 (diff) | |
download | linux-rt-1d9910635dfc24ecac41129b5f4752b403194ab4.tar.gz |
swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion
commit cbab0e4eec299e9059199ebe6daf48730be46d2b upstream.
read_swap_cache_async() can race against get_swap_page(), and stumble
across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry in the swap map whose page wasn't brought
into the swapcache yet.
This transient swap_map state is expected to be transitory, but the
actual placement of discard at scan_swap_map() inserts a wait for I/O
completion thus making the thread at read_swap_cache_async() to loop
around its -EEXIST case, while the other end at get_swap_page() is
scheduled away at scan_swap_map(). This can leave the system deadlocked
if the I/O completion happens to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where
read_swap_cache_async() is busy looping and !CONFIG_PREEMPT.
This patch introduces a cond_resched() call to make the aforementioned
read_swap_cache_async() busy loop condition to bail out when necessary,
thus avoiding the subtle race window.
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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