migrate_pages: fix deadlock in batched migration
Patch series "migrate_pages: fix deadlock in batched synchronous migration", v2. Two deadlock bugs were reported for the migrate_pages() batching series. Thanks Hugh and Pengfei. Analysis shows that if we have locked some other folios except the one we are migrating, it's not safe in general to wait synchronously, for example, to wait the writeback to complete or wait to lock the buffer head. So 1/3 fixes the deadlock in a simple way, where the batching support for the synchronous migration is disabled. The change is straightforward and easy to be understood. While 3/3 re-introduce the batching for synchronous migration via trying to migrate asynchronously in batch optimistically, then fall back to migrate synchronously one by one for fail-to-migrate folios. Test shows that this can restore the TLB flushing batching performance for synchronous migration effectively. This patch (of 3): Two deadlock bugs were reported for the migrate_pages() batching series. Thanks Hugh and Pengfei! For example, in the following deadlock trace snippet, INFO: task kworker/u4:0:9 blocked for more than 147 seconds. Not tainted 6.2.0-rc4-kvm+ #1314 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:kworker/u4:0 state:D stack:0 pid:9 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000 Workqueue: loop4 loop_rootcg_workfn Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x43b/0xd00 schedule+0x6a/0xf0 io_schedule+0x4a/0x80 folio_wait_bit_common+0x1b5/0x4e0 ? __pfx_wake_page_function+0x10/0x10 __filemap_get_folio+0x73d/0x770 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x1fd/0xc80 shmem_write_begin+0x91/0x220 generic_perform_write+0x10e/0x2e0 __generic_file_write_iter+0x17e/0x290 ? generic_write_checks+0x12b/0x1a0 generic_file_write_iter+0x97/0x180 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1a/0x20 do_iter_readv_writev+0x13c/0x210 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1a/0x20 do_iter_write+0xf6/0x330 vfs_iter_write+0x46/0x70 loop_process_work+0x723/0xfe0 loop_rootcg_workfn+0x28/0x40 process_one_work+0x3cc/0x8d0 worker_thread+0x66/0x630 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 kthread+0x153/0x190 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50 </TASK> INFO: task repro:1023 blocked for more than 147 seconds. Not tainted 6.2.0-rc4-kvm+ #1314 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:repro state:D stack:0 pid:1023 ppid:360 flags:0x00004004 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x43b/0xd00 schedule+0x6a/0xf0 io_schedule+0x4a/0x80 folio_wait_bit_common+0x1b5/0x4e0 ? compaction_alloc+0x77/0x1150 ? __pfx_wake_page_function+0x10/0x10 folio_wait_bit+0x30/0x40 folio_wait_writeback+0x2e/0x1e0 migrate_pages_batch+0x555/0x1ac0 ? __pfx_compaction_alloc+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_compaction_free+0x10/0x10 ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x17/0x20 ? lock_is_held_type+0xe6/0x140 migrate_pages+0x100e/0x1180 ? __pfx_compaction_free+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_compaction_alloc+0x10/0x10 compact_zone+0xe10/0x1b50 ? lock_is_held_type+0xe6/0x140 ? check_preemption_disabled+0x80/0xf0 compact_node+0xa3/0x100 ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp8+0x1c/0x30 ? _find_first_bit+0x7b/0x90 sysctl_compaction_handler+0x5d/0xb0 proc_sys_call_handler+0x29d/0x420 proc_sys_write+0x2b/0x40 vfs_write+0x3a3/0x780 ksys_write+0xb7/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x26/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f3a2471f59d RSP: 002b:00007ffe567f7288 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f3a2471f59d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005 RBP: 00007ffe567f72a0 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000010 R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 00000000004012e0 R13: 00007ffe567f73e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK> The page migration task has held the lock of the shmem folio A, and is waiting the writeback of the folio B of the file system on the loop block device to complete. While the loop worker task which writes back the folio B is waiting to lock the shmem folio A, because the folio A backs the folio B in the loop device. Thus deadlock is triggered. In general, if we have locked some other folios except the one we are migrating, it's not safe to wait synchronously, for example, to wait the writeback to complete or wait to lock the buffer head. To fix the deadlock, in this patch, we avoid to batch the page migration except for MIGRATE_ASYNC mode. In MIGRATE_ASYNC mode, synchronous waiting is avoided. The fix can be improved further. We will do that as soon as possible. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303030155.160983-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87a6c8c-c5c1-67dc-1e32-eb30831d6e3d@google.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/874jrg7kke.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230227110614.dngdub2j3exr6dfp@quack3/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303030155.160983-2-ying.huang@intel.com Fixes: 5dfab109 ("migrate_pages: batch _unmap and _move") Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: "Xu, Pengfei" <pengfei.xu@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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