Commit 4acb83417cad ("sbitmap: fix batched wait_cnt accounting") is a big improvement: without it, I had to revert to before commit 040b83fcecfb ("sbitmap: fix possible io hung due to lost wakeup") to avoid the high system time and freezes which that had introduced. Now okay on the NVME laptop, but 4acb83417cad is a disaster for heavy swapping (kernel builds in low memory) on another: soon locking up in sbitmap_queue_wake_up() (into which __sbq_wake_up() is inlined), cycling around with waitqueue_active() but wait_cnt 0 . Here is a backtrace, showing the common pattern of outer sbitmap_queue_wake_up() interrupted before setting wait_cnt 0 back to wake_batch (in some cases other CPUs are idle, in other cases they're spinning for a lock in dd_bio_merge()): sbitmap_queue_wake_up < sbitmap_queue_clear < blk_mq_put_tag < __blk_mq_free_request < blk_mq_free_request < __blk_mq_end_request < scsi_end_request < scsi_io_completion < scsi_finish_command < scsi_complete < blk_complete_reqs < blk_done_softirq < __do_softirq < __irq_exit_rcu < irq_exit_rcu < common_interrupt < asm_common_interrupt < _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore < __wake_up_common_lock < __wake_up < sbitmap_queue_wake_up < sbitmap_queue_clear < blk_mq_put_tag < __blk_mq_free_request < blk_mq_free_request < dd_bio_merge < blk_mq_sched_bio_merge < blk_mq_attempt_bio_merge < blk_mq_submit_bio < __submit_bio < submit_bio_noacct_nocheck < submit_bio_noacct < submit_bio < __swap_writepage < swap_writepage < pageout < shrink_folio_list < evict_folios < lru_gen_shrink_lruvec < shrink_lruvec < shrink_node < do_try_to_free_pages < try_to_free_pages < __alloc_pages_slowpath < __alloc_pages < folio_alloc < vma_alloc_folio < do_anonymous_page < __handle_mm_fault < handle_mm_fault < do_user_addr_fault < exc_page_fault < asm_exc_page_fault I have almost no grasp of all the possible sbitmap races, and their consequences: but using the same !waitqueue_active() check as used elsewhere, fixes the lockup and shows no adverse consequence for me. Fixes: 4acb83417cad ("sbitmap: fix batched wait_cnt accounting") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/sbitmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/sbitmap.c +++ b/lib/sbitmap.c @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static bool __sbq_wake_up(struct sbitmap * function again to wakeup a new batch on a different 'ws'. */ if (cur == 0) - return true; + return !waitqueue_active(&ws->wait); sub = min(*nr, cur); wait_cnt = cur - sub; } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg(&ws->wait_cnt, &cur, wait_cnt));