linux-kernel - [ 10/23] mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd

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Message-Id: <20120726211406.798340041@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:19:49 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@...sony.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: [ 10/23] mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop()

From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@...il.com>

commit 1c7e7f6c0703d03af6bcd5ccc11fc15d23e5ecbe upstream.

Offlining memory may block forever, waiting for kswapd() to wake up
because kswapd() does not check the event kthread->should_stop before
sleeping.

The proper pattern, from Documentation/memory-barriers.txt, is:

   ---  waker  ---
   event_indicated = 1;
   wake_up_process(event_daemon);

   ---  sleeper  ---
   for (;;) {
      set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
      if (event_indicated)
         break;
      schedule();
   }

   set_current_state() may be wrapped by:
      prepare_to_wait();

In the kswapd() case, event_indicated is kthread->should_stop.

  === offlining memory (waker) ===
   kswapd_stop()
      kthread_stop()
         kthread->should_stop = 1
         wake_up_process()
         wait_for_completion()

  ===  kswapd_try_to_sleep (sleeper) ===
   kswapd_try_to_sleep()
      prepare_to_wait()
           .
           .
      schedule()
           .
           .
      finish_wait()

The schedule() needs to be protected by a test of kthread->should_stop,
which is wrapped by kthread_should_stop().

Reproducer:
   Do heavy file I/O in background.
   Do a memory offline/online in a tight loop

Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@...sony.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3013,7 +3013,10 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_
 		 * them before going back to sleep.
 		 */
 		set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold);
-		schedule();
+
+		if (!kthread_should_stop())
+			schedule();
+
 		set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold);
 	} else {
 		if (remaining)


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