From nobody Wed Dec 17 12:53:17 2025 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30633EE4993 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234191AbjHUJNV (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:13:21 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41880 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231593AbjHUJNU (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:13:20 -0400 Received: from szxga08-in.huawei.com (szxga08-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.255]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D2A4BA for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 02:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kwepemm600017.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.57]) by szxga08-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4RTmv81yWhz1L9FL; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:11:48 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (10.175.112.125) by kwepemm600017.china.huawei.com (7.193.23.234) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2507.31; Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:13:14 +0800 From: Tong Tiangen To: Andrew Morton , Naoya Horiguchi , Miaohe Lin , CC: , , Tong Tiangen Subject: [PATCH v2] mm: memory-failure: use rcu lock instead of tasklist_lock when collect_procs() Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:13:12 +0800 Message-ID: <20230821091312.2034844-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.175.112.125] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To kwepemm600017.china.huawei.com (7.193.23.234) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We found a softlock issue in our test, analyzed the logs, and found that the relevant CPU call trace as follows: CPU0: _do_fork -> copy_process() -> write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) //Disable irq,waiting for //tasklist_lock CPU1: wp_page_copy() ->pte_offset_map_lock() -> spin_lock(&page->ptl); //Hold page->ptl -> ptep_clear_flush() -> flush_tlb_others() ... -> smp_call_function_many() -> arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask() -> csd_lock_wait() //Waiting for other CPUs respond //IPI CPU2: collect_procs_anon() -> read_lock(&tasklist_lock) //Hold tasklist_lock ->for_each_process(tsk) -> page_mapped_in_vma() -> page_vma_mapped_walk() -> map_pte() ->spin_lock(&page->ptl) //Waiting for page->ptl We can see that CPU1 waiting for CPU0 respond IPI=EF=BC=8CCPU0 waiting for = CPU2 unlock tasklist_lock, CPU2 waiting for CPU1 unlock page->ptl. As a result, softlockup is triggered. For collect_procs_anon(), we will not modify the tasklist, but only perform read traversal. Therefore, we can use rcu lock instead of spin lock tasklist_lock, from this, we can break the softlock chain above. The same logic can also be applied to: - collect_procs_file() - collect_procs_fsdax() - collect_procs_ksm() Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi --- Since v1: - 1. According to Matthew's suggestion, only the comments of find_early_kill_thread() are modified, no need to hold the rcu lock. Changes since RFC[1]: - 1. According to Naoya's suggestion, modify the tasklist_lock in the comment about locking order in mm/filemap.c. - 2. According to Kefeng's suggestion, optimize the implementation of find_early_kill_thread() without functional changes. - 3. Modify the title description. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230815130154.1100779-1-tongtiangen@huawe= i.com/ --- mm/filemap.c | 3 --- mm/ksm.c | 4 ++-- mm/memory-failure.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 014b73eb96a1..dfade1ef1765 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ * bdi.wb->list_lock (zap_pte_range->set_page_dirty) * ->inode->i_lock (zap_pte_range->set_page_dirty) * ->private_lock (zap_pte_range->block_dirty_folio) - * - * ->i_mmap_rwsem - * ->tasklist_lock (memory_failure, collect_procs_ao) */ =20 static void page_cache_delete(struct address_space *mapping, diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 8d6aee05421d..981af9c72e7a 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -2925,7 +2925,7 @@ void collect_procs_ksm(struct page *page, struct list= _head *to_kill, struct anon_vma *av =3D rmap_item->anon_vma; =20 anon_vma_lock_read(av); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(tsk) { struct anon_vma_chain *vmac; unsigned long addr; @@ -2944,7 +2944,7 @@ void collect_procs_ksm(struct page *page, struct list= _head *to_kill, } } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); anon_vma_unlock_read(av); } } diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c index 7b01fffe7a79..4d6e43c88489 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int f= orcekill, bool fail, * on behalf of the thread group. Return task_struct of the (first found) * dedicated thread if found, and return NULL otherwise. * - * We already hold read_lock(&tasklist_lock) in the caller, so we don't - * have to call rcu_read_lock/unlock() in this function. + * We already hold rcu lock in the caller, so we don't have to call + * rcu_read_lock/unlock() in this function. */ static struct task_struct *find_early_kill_thread(struct task_struct *tsk) { @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struc= t list_head *to_kill, return; =20 pgoff =3D page_to_pgoff(page); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(tsk) { struct anon_vma_chain *vmac; struct task_struct *t =3D task_early_kill(tsk, force_early); @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static void collect_procs_anon(struct page *page, struc= t list_head *to_kill, add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill); } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); anon_vma_unlock_read(av); } =20 @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struc= t list_head *to_kill, pgoff_t pgoff; =20 i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); pgoff =3D page_to_pgoff(page); for_each_process(tsk) { struct task_struct *t =3D task_early_kill(tsk, force_early); @@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ static void collect_procs_file(struct page *page, struc= t list_head *to_kill, add_to_kill_anon_file(t, page, vma, to_kill); } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } =20 @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(struct page *page, struct task_struct *tsk; =20 i_mmap_lock_read(mapping); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); for_each_process(tsk) { struct task_struct *t =3D task_early_kill(tsk, true); =20 @@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ static void collect_procs_fsdax(struct page *page, add_to_kill_fsdax(t, page, vma, to_kill, pgoff); } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping); } #endif /* CONFIG_FS_DAX */ --=20 2.25.1