Hello, On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:35:45AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit bdf03299248916640a835a05d32841bb3d31912d ] I have somes issues with this patch. It causes panics due to hung tasks on 5.6. I guess it fixes one deadlock, but causes other one? Not sure backporting it to stable branches is a good idea. regards, o. INFO: task kworker/u16:2:341 blocked for more than 122 seconds. Not tainted 5.6.0-rc2-00254-g9a029a493dc16 #4 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kworker/u16:2 D 0 341 2 0x00000000 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-179:0) Backtrace: [<c0912bd0>] (__schedule) from [<c0913274>] (schedule+0x78/0xf4) r10:ede1a000 r9:00000000 r8:ede1ba60 r7:ec417290 r6:00000002 r5:ede1a000 r4:ee8e8000 [<c09131fc>] (schedule) from [<c017ec74>] (rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x24c/0x4c0) r5:00000001 r4:ec417280 [<c017ea28>] (rwsem_down_write_slowpath) from [<c0915f6c>] (down_write+0x6c/0x70) r10:ec417280 r9:ede1bd80 r8:ee128000 r7:00000001 r6:00000000 r5:eff0afc4 r4:ec417280 [<c0915f00>] (down_write) from [<c0435b68>] (f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x608/0x7ac) r5:eff0afc4 r4:ec4170e0 [<c0435560>] (f2fs_write_single_data_page) from [<c0435fc0>] (f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x2b4/0x7c4) r10:ede1bc28 r9:ec4171e0 r8:ec4170e0 r7:00000001 r6:ede1bd80 r5:00000001 r4:eff0afc4 [<c0435d0c>] (f2fs_write_cache_pages) from [<c0436814>] (f2fs_write_data_pages+0x344/0x35c) r10:0000012c r9:ee12802c r8:ee128000 r7:00000004 r6:ec4171e0 r5:ec4170e0 r4:ede1bd80 [<c04364d0>] (f2fs_write_data_pages) from [<c0267fa0>] (do_writepages+0x3c/0xd4) r10:0000012c r9:c0e03d00 r8:00001400 r7:c0264e94 r6:ede1bd80 r5:ec4171e0 r4:ec4170e0 [<c0267f64>] (do_writepages) from [<c0310d24>] (__writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x454) r7:ec4171e0 r6:ede1beac r5:ede1bd80 r4:ec4170e0 [<c0310ce0>] (__writeback_single_inode) from [<c0311338>] (writeback_sb_inodes+0x204/0x4b0) r10:0000012c r9:c0e03d00 r8:ec417148 r7:ec4170e0 r6:ede1beac r5:ec417188 r4:eebed848 [<c0311134>] (writeback_sb_inodes) from [<c0311634>] (__writeback_inodes_wb+0x50/0xe4) r10:ee7128e8 r9:c0e03d00 r8:eebed85c r7:ede1beac r6:00000000 r5:eebed848 r4:ee120000 [<c03115e4>] (__writeback_inodes_wb) from [<c031195c>] (wb_writeback+0x294/0x338) r10:00020800 r9:ede1a000 r8:c0e04e64 r7:eebed848 r6:000192d0 r5:ede1beac r4:eebed848 [<c03116c8>] (wb_writeback) from [<c0312e98>] (wb_workfn+0x3e0/0x54c) r10:ee894005 r9:eebed84c r8:eebed948 r7:eebed848 r6:00000000 r5:eebed954 r4:00002b6e [<c0312ab8>] (wb_workfn) from [<c014f2b8>] (process_one_work+0x214/0x544) r10:ee894005 r9:00000200 r8:00000000 r7:ee894000 r6:ef044400 r5:edb1c700 r4:eebed954 [<c014f0a4>] (process_one_work) from [<c014f634>] (worker_thread+0x4c/0x574) r10:ef044400 r9:c0e03d00 r8:ef044418 r7:00000088 r6:ef044400 r5:edb1c714 r4:edb1c700 [<c014f5e8>] (worker_thread) from [<c01564fc>] (kthread+0x144/0x170) r10:ef125e90 r9:ec0f235c r8:edb1c700 r7:ede1a000 r6:00000000 r5:ec0f2300 r4:ec0f2340 [<c01563b8>] (kthread) from [<c01010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c) Exception stack(0xede1bfb0 to 0xede1bff8) bfa0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 bfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 r10:00000000 r9:00000000 r8:00000000 r7:00000000 r6:00000000 r5:c01563b8 r4:ec0f2300 NMI backtrace for cpu 2 CPU: 2 PID: 52 Comm: khungtaskd Not tainted 5.6.0-rc2-00254-g9a029a493dc16 #4 Hardware name: Allwinner A83t board Backtrace: [<c010db5c>] (dump_backtrace) from [<c010dee0>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24) r7:00000000 r6:60060013 r5:00000000 r4:c0e9ab10 > Otherwise, we can hit deadlock by waiting for the locked page in > move_data_block in GC. > > Thread A Thread B > - do_page_mkwrite > - f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite > - lock_page > - f2fs_balance_fs > - mutex_lock(gc_mutex) > - f2fs_gc > - do_garbage_collect > - ra_data_block > - grab_cache_page > - f2fs_balance_fs > - mutex_lock(gc_mutex) > > Fixes: 39a8695824510 ("f2fs: refactor ->page_mkwrite() flow") > Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/f2fs/file.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c > index 33c412d178f0f..6c4436a5ce797 100644 > --- a/fs/f2fs/file.c > +++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c > @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static vm_fault_t f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf) > struct page *page = vmf->page; > struct inode *inode = file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file); > struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode); > - struct dnode_of_data dn = { .node_changed = false }; > + struct dnode_of_data dn; > int err; > > if (unlikely(f2fs_cp_error(sbi))) { > @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ static vm_fault_t f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf) > goto err; > } > > + /* should do out of any locked page */ > + f2fs_balance_fs(sbi, true); > + > sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb); > > f2fs_bug_on(sbi, f2fs_has_inline_data(inode)); > @@ -120,8 +123,6 @@ static vm_fault_t f2fs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf) > out_sem: > up_read(&F2FS_I(inode)->i_mmap_sem); > > - f2fs_balance_fs(sbi, dn.node_changed); > - > sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb); > err: > return block_page_mkwrite_return(err); > -- > 2.20.1 > > >