This patch avoids that lockdep reports the following: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 4.18.0-rc1 #62 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ kswapd0/84 is trying to acquire lock: 00000000c313516d (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++}, at: xfs_free_eofblocks+0xa2/0x1e0 but task is already holding lock: 00000000591c83ae (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}: kmem_cache_alloc+0x2c/0x2b0 radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.19+0x3d/0xc0 __radix_tree_create+0x161/0x1c0 __radix_tree_insert+0x45/0x210 dmz_map+0x245/0x2d0 [dm_zoned] __map_bio+0x40/0x260 __split_and_process_non_flush+0x116/0x220 __split_and_process_bio+0x81/0x180 __dm_make_request.isra.32+0x5a/0x100 generic_make_request+0x36e/0x690 submit_bio+0x6c/0x140 mpage_readpages+0x19e/0x1f0 read_pages+0x6d/0x1b0 __do_page_cache_readahead+0x21b/0x2d0 force_page_cache_readahead+0xc4/0x100 generic_file_read_iter+0x7c6/0xd20 __vfs_read+0x102/0x180 vfs_read+0x9b/0x140 ksys_read+0x55/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x1f0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe -> #1 (&dmz->chunk_lock){+.+.}: dmz_map+0x133/0x2d0 [dm_zoned] __map_bio+0x40/0x260 __split_and_process_non_flush+0x116/0x220 __split_and_process_bio+0x81/0x180 __dm_make_request.isra.32+0x5a/0x100 generic_make_request+0x36e/0x690 submit_bio+0x6c/0x140 _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x31c/0x590 xfs_buf_submit_wait+0x73/0x520 xfs_buf_read_map+0x134/0x2f0 xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0xc3/0x580 xfs_read_agf+0xa5/0x1e0 xfs_alloc_read_agf+0x59/0x2b0 xfs_alloc_pagf_init+0x27/0x60 xfs_bmap_longest_free_extent+0x43/0xb0 xfs_bmap_btalloc_nullfb+0x7f/0xf0 xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x428/0x7c0 xfs_bmapi_write+0x598/0xcc0 xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x15a/0x330 xfs_map_blocks+0x1cf/0x3f0 xfs_do_writepage+0x15f/0x7b0 write_cache_pages+0x1ca/0x540 xfs_vm_writepages+0x65/0xa0 do_writepages+0x48/0xf0 __writeback_single_inode+0x58/0x730 writeback_sb_inodes+0x249/0x5c0 wb_writeback+0x11e/0x550 wb_workfn+0xa3/0x670 process_one_work+0x228/0x670 worker_thread+0x3c/0x390 kthread+0x11c/0x140 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 -> #0 (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++}: down_read_nested+0x43/0x70 xfs_free_eofblocks+0xa2/0x1e0 xfs_fs_destroy_inode+0xac/0x270 dispose_list+0x51/0x80 prune_icache_sb+0x52/0x70 super_cache_scan+0x127/0x1a0 shrink_slab.part.47+0x1bd/0x590 shrink_node+0x3b5/0x470 balance_pgdat+0x158/0x3b0 kswapd+0x1ba/0x600 kthread+0x11c/0x140 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 other info that might help us debug this: Chain exists of: &xfs_nondir_ilock_class --> &dmz->chunk_lock --> fs_reclaim Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(fs_reclaim); lock(&dmz->chunk_lock); lock(fs_reclaim); lock(&xfs_nondir_ilock_class); *** DEADLOCK *** 3 locks held by kswapd0/84: #0: 00000000591c83ae (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30 #1: 000000000f8208f5 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}, at: shrink_slab.part.47+0x3f/0x590 #2: 00000000cacefa54 (&type->s_umount_key#43){.+.+}, at: trylock_super+0x16/0x50 stack backtrace: CPU: 7 PID: 84 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc1 #62 Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X10SRL-F, BIOS 2.0 12/17/2015 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x85/0xcb print_circular_bug.isra.36+0x1ce/0x1db __lock_acquire+0x124e/0x1310 lock_acquire+0x9f/0x1f0 down_read_nested+0x43/0x70 xfs_free_eofblocks+0xa2/0x1e0 xfs_fs_destroy_inode+0xac/0x270 dispose_list+0x51/0x80 prune_icache_sb+0x52/0x70 super_cache_scan+0x127/0x1a0 shrink_slab.part.47+0x1bd/0x590 shrink_node+0x3b5/0x470 balance_pgdat+0x158/0x3b0 kswapd+0x1ba/0x600 kthread+0x11c/0x140 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 Reported-by: Masato Suzuki <masato.suzuki@xxxxxxx> Fixes: 4218a9554653 ("dm zoned: use GFP_NOIO in I/O path") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes compared to v1: added "Cc: stable" drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c index 3c0e45f4dcf5..a44183ff4be0 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ static int dmz_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv) /* Chunk BIO work */ mutex_init(&dmz->chunk_lock); - INIT_RADIX_TREE(&dmz->chunk_rxtree, GFP_KERNEL); + INIT_RADIX_TREE(&dmz->chunk_rxtree, GFP_NOIO); dmz->chunk_wq = alloc_workqueue("dmz_cwq_%s", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_UNBOUND, 0, dev->name); if (!dmz->chunk_wq) { -- 2.17.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel