This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: fix direct reclaim writeback regression
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-fix-direct-reclaim-writeback-regression.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8bdd638091605dc66d92c57c4b80eb87fffc15f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:58:23 -0700
Subject: mm: fix direct reclaim writeback regression
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8bdd638091605dc66d92c57c4b80eb87fffc15f7 upstream.
Shortly before 3.16-rc1, Dave Jones reported:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 19721 at fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:971
xfs_vm_writepage+0x5ce/0x630 [xfs]()
CPU: 3 PID: 19721 Comm: trinity-c61 Not tainted 3.15.0+ #3
Call Trace:
xfs_vm_writepage+0x5ce/0x630 [xfs]
shrink_page_list+0x8f9/0xb90
shrink_inactive_list+0x253/0x510
shrink_lruvec+0x563/0x6c0
shrink_zone+0x3b/0x100
shrink_zones+0x1f1/0x3c0
try_to_free_pages+0x164/0x380
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x822/0xc90
alloc_pages_vma+0xaf/0x1c0
handle_mm_fault+0xa31/0xc50
etc.
970 if (WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) ==
971 PF_MEMALLOC))
I did not respond at the time, because a glance at the PageDirty block
in shrink_page_list() quickly shows that this is impossible: we don't do
writeback on file pages (other than tmpfs) from direct reclaim nowadays.
Dave was hallucinating, but it would have been disrespectful to say so.
However, my own /var/log/messages now shows similar complaints
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 28814 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1881 ext4_writepage+0xa7/0x38b()
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27347 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1764 ext4_writepage+0xa7/0x38b()
from stressing some mmotm trees during July.
Could a dirty xfs or ext4 file page somehow get marked PageSwapBacked,
so fail shrink_page_list()'s page_is_file_cache() test, and so proceed
to mapping->a_ops->writepage()?
Yes, 3.16-rc1's commit 68711a746345 ("mm, migration: add destination
page freeing callback") has provided such a way to compaction: if
migrating a SwapBacked page fails, its newpage may be put back on the
list for later use with PageSwapBacked still set, and nothing will clear
it.
Whether that can do anything worse than issue WARN_ON_ONCEs, and get
some statistics wrong, is unclear: easier to fix than to think through
the consequences.
Fixing it here, before the put_new_page(), addresses the bug directly,
but is probably the worst place to fix it. Page migration is doing too
many parts of the job on too many levels: fixing it in
move_to_new_page() to complement its SetPageSwapBacked would be
preferable, except why is it (and newpage->mapping and newpage->index)
done there, rather than down in migrate_page_move_mapping(), once we are
sure of success? Not a cleanup to get into right now, especially not
with memcg cleanups coming in 3.17.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/migrate.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -993,9 +993,10 @@ out:
* it. Otherwise, putback_lru_page() will drop the reference grabbed
* during isolation.
*/
- if (rc != MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS && put_new_page)
+ if (rc != MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS && put_new_page) {
+ ClearPageSwapBacked(newpage);
put_new_page(newpage, private);
- else
+ } else
putback_lru_page(newpage);
if (result) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mm-filemap-move-radix-tree-hole-searching-here.patch
queue-3.14/lib-radix-tree-add-radix_tree_delete_item.patch
queue-3.14/fs-superblock-unregister-sb-shrinker-before-kill_sb.patch
queue-3.14/mm-vmscan-use-proportional-scanning-during-direct-reclaim-and-full-scan-at-def_priority.patch
queue-3.14/mm-fs-prepare-for-non-page-entries-in-page-cache-radix-trees.patch
queue-3.14/fs-superblock-avoid-locking-counting-inodes-and-dentries-before-reclaiming-them.patch
queue-3.14/mm-fix-direct-reclaim-writeback-regression.patch
queue-3.14/mm-shmem-save-one-radix-tree-lookup-when-truncating-swapped-pages.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-prevent-migrate_reserve-pages-from-being-misplaced.patch
queue-3.14/mm-madvise-fix-madv_willneed-on-shmem-swapouts.patch
queue-3.14/x86-mm-in-the-pte-swapout-page-reclaim-case-clear-the-accessed-bit-instead-of-flushing-the-tlb.patch
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