On Wed 12-12-18 15:55:36, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:27:57 -0500 Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > v5->v6: > > - added more comments as per Andrew's suggestion. > > - fixed the fpin leaks in the two error paths that were pointed out. > > > > hm, > > > --- a/mm/filemap.c~filemap-drop-the-mmap_sem-for-all-blocking-operations-v6 > > +++ a/mm/filemap.c > > @@ -2461,7 +2476,8 @@ static struct file *do_sync_mmap_readahe > > > > /* > > * Asynchronous readahead happens when we find the page and PG_readahead, > > - * so we want to possibly extend the readahead further.. > > + * so we want to possibly extend the readahead further. We return the file that > > + * was pinned if we have to drop the mmap_sem in order to do IO. > > */ > > static struct file *do_async_mmap_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf, > > struct page *page) > > @@ -2545,14 +2561,15 @@ retry_find: > > page = pagecache_get_page(mapping, offset, > > FGP_CREAT|FGP_FOR_MMAP, > > vmf->gfp_mask); > > - if (!page) > > + if (!page) { > > + if (fpin) > > + goto out_retry; > > Is this right? If pagecache_get_page() returns NULL we can now return > VM_FAULT_MAJOR|VM_FAULT_RETRY whereas we used to return ENOMEM. Yes, but once we've dropped mmap_sem, there's no way safely return -ENOMEM. So VM_FAULT_RETRY is really the only option to tell the caller that mmap_sem is not held anymore... So the patch looks good to me now. You can add: Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR