Found a deadlock between kswapd, writeback thread and fuse process Here are the sequence of events with callstacks on the deadlock. process#1 process#2 process#3 __switch_to+0x150 __switch_to+0x150 try_to_free_pages __schedule+0x984 __schedule+0x984 memalloc_noreclaim_restore schedule+0x70 schedule+0x70 __perform_reclaim bit_wait+0x14 __fuse_request_send+0x154 __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim __wait_on_bit+0x70 fuse_simple_request+0x174 inode_wait_for_writeback+0xa0 __alloc_pages_slowpath fuse_flush_times+0x10c evict+0xa4 fuse_write_inode+0x5c __alloc_pages_nodemask iput+0x248 __writeback_single_inode+0x3d4 dentry_unlink_inode+0xd8 __alloc_pages_node writeback_sb_inodes+0x4a0 __dentry_kill+0x160 __writeback_inodes_wb+0xac shrink_dentry_list+0x170 alloc_pages_node wb_writeback+0x26c fuse_copy_fill prune_dcache_sb+0x54 wb_workfn+0x2c0 fuse_copy_one super_cache_scan+0x114 process_one_work+0x278 fuse_read_single_forget do_shrink_slab+0x24c worker_thread+0x26c fuse_read_forget shrink_slab+0xa8 kthread+0x118 fuse_dev_do_read shrink_node+0x118 fuse_dev_splice_read kswapd+0x92c do_splice_to do_splice Process#1(kswapd) held an inode lock and initaited a writeback to free the pages, as the inode superblock is fuse, process#2 forms a fuse request. Process#3 (Fuse daemon threads) while serving process#2 request, it requires memory(pages) and as the system is already running in low memory it ends up in calling try_to_ free_pages(), which might now call kswapd again, which is already stuck with an inode lock held. Thus forms a deadlock. So, remove __GFP_FS flag to avoid allocator recursing into the filesystem that might already held locks. Signed-off-by: Pradeep P V K <ppvk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fuse/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c index 02b3c36..2859024 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/dev.c +++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static int fuse_copy_fill(struct fuse_copy_state *cs) if (cs->nr_segs >= cs->pipe->max_usage) return -EIO; - page = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER); + page = alloc_page(GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HARDWALL | __GFP_HIGHMEM); if (!page) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.7.4
