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mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path 

Ensure that memory allocations in the readahead path do not attempt to
reclaim file-backed pages, which could lead to a deadlock.  It is
possible, though unlikely this is the root cause of a problem observed
by Cong Wang.

Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-16-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 2020-06-01 21:46:58 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2d8163e489
commit f2c817bed5
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@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/mm_inline.h>
#include <linux/blk-cgroup.h>
#include <linux/fadvise.h>
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include "internal.h"
@ -185,6 +186,18 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping,
};
unsigned long i;
/*
* Partway through the readahead operation, we will have added
* locked pages to the page cache, but will not yet have submitted
* them for I/O. Adding another page may need to allocate memory,
* which can trigger memory reclaim. Telling the VM we're in
* the middle of a filesystem operation will cause it to not
* touch file-backed pages, preventing a deadlock. Most (all?)
* filesystems already specify __GFP_NOFS in their mapping's
* gfp_mask, but let's be explicit here.
*/
unsigned int nofs = memalloc_nofs_save();
/*
* Preallocate as many pages as we will need.
*/
@ -229,6 +242,7 @@ void page_cache_readahead_unbounded(struct address_space *mapping,
* will then handle the error.
*/
read_pages(&rac, &page_pool, false);
memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_cache_readahead_unbounded);