Re: [PATCH 6.12 102/114] btrfs: avoid monopolizing a core when activating a swap file

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On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 03:31:02PM GMT, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 08:41:33PM +0900, Koichiro Den wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 04:43:39PM GMT, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > commit 2c8507c63f5498d4ee4af404a8e44ceae4345056 upstream.
> > > 
> > > During swap activation we iterate over the extents of a file and we can
> > > have many thousands of them, so we can end up in a busy loop monopolizing
> > > a core. Avoid this by doing a voluntary reschedule after processing each
> > > extent.
> > > 
> > > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.4+
> > > Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/btrfs/inode.c |    2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> > > +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> > > @@ -7117,6 +7117,8 @@ noinline int can_nocow_extent(struct ino
> > >  			ret = -EAGAIN;
> > >  			goto out;
> > >  		}
> > > +
> > > +		cond_resched();
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > >  	if (file_extent)
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi, please let me confirm; is this backport really ok? I mean, should the
> > cond_resched() be added to btrfs_swap_activate() loop? I was able to
> > reproduce the same situation:
> > 
> >     $ git rev-parse HEAD
> >     319addc2ad901dac4d6cc931d77ef35073e0942f
> >     $ b4 mbox --single-message  c37ea7a8de12e996091ba295b2f201fbe680c96c.1733929328.git.fdmanana@xxxxxxxx
> >     1 messages in the thread
> >     Saved ./c37ea7a8de12e996091ba295b2f201fbe680c96c.1733929328.git.fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     $ patch -p1 < ./c37ea7a8de12e996091ba295b2f201fbe680c96c.1733929328.git.fdmanana@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >     patching file fs/btrfs/inode.c
> >     Hunk #1 succeeded at 7117 with fuzz 1 (offset -2961 lines).
> >     $ git diff
> >     diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> >     index 58ffe78132d9..6fe2ac620464 100644
> >     --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> >     +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> >     @@ -7117,6 +7117,8 @@ noinline int can_nocow_extent(struct inode *inode, u64 offset, u64 *len,
> >                             ret = -EAGAIN;
> >                             goto out;
> >                     }
> >     +
> >     +               cond_resched();
> >             }
> >     
> >             if (file_extent)
> > 
> > The same goes for all the other stable branches applied. Sorry if I'm
> > missing something.
> 
> Hm, looks like patch messed this up :(
> 
> Can you send a revert for the branches that this was wrong on, and then
> the correct fix, and I'll be glad to queue them all up.

Sure, I'll send them later.
Thanks for the quick response!

-Koichiro

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h




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