[PATCH] fs: fix schedule while atomic caused by gfp of erofs_allocpage
Gao Xiang
hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Jul 16 16:50:14 AEST 2024
On 2024/7/16 14:46, Gao Xiang wrote:
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> On 2024/7/16 14:43, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
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>>>>> I don't see why it's an atomic context,
>>>>> so this patch is incorrect.
>>>> Sorry, I should provide more details. page_cache_ra_unbounded() will
>>>> call filemap_invalidate_lock_shared(mapping) to ensure the integrity
>>>> of page cache during readahead, which will disable preempt.
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>>> Why a rwsem sleepable lock disable preemption?
>> emm, that's the original design of down_read()
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> No.
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>>> context should be always non-atomic context, which is applied
>>> to all kernel filesystems.
>> AFAICT, filemap_fault/read have added the folios of readahead to page
>> cache which means the aops->readahead basically just need to map the
>> block to this folios and then launch the bio. The erofs is a little
>> bit different to others as it has to alloc_pages for decompression
>> when doing this.
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> Interesting. The whole .readahead is sleepable, including
> submit block I/Os to storage.
Also, please don't imagine your stack trace if it's a non-upstream
kernel.
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> Nacked-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>
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> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
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