3.6.11.6 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Rafael Aquini [ Upstream commit cbab0e4eec299e9059199ebe6daf48730be46d2b ] read_swap_cache_async() can race against get_swap_page(), and stumble across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry in the swap map whose page wasn't brought into the swapcache yet. This transient swap_map state is expected to be transitory, but the actual placement of discard at scan_swap_map() inserts a wait for I/O completion thus making the thread at read_swap_cache_async() to loop around its -EEXIST case, while the other end at get_swap_page() is scheduled away at scan_swap_map(). This can leave the system deadlocked if the I/O completion happens to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where read_swap_cache_async() is busy looping and !CONFIG_PREEMPT. This patch introduces a cond_resched() call to make the aforementioned read_swap_cache_async() busy loop condition to bail out when necessary, thus avoiding the subtle race window. Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- mm/swap_state.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index 0cb36fb..f854fbd 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -314,8 +314,24 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask, * Swap entry may have been freed since our caller observed it. */ err = swapcache_prepare(entry); - if (err == -EEXIST) { /* seems racy */ + if (err == -EEXIST) { radix_tree_preload_end(); + /* + * We might race against get_swap_page() and stumble + * across a SWAP_HAS_CACHE swap_map entry whose page + * has not been brought into the swapcache yet, while + * the other end is scheduled away waiting on discard + * I/O completion at scan_swap_map(). + * + * In order to avoid turning this transitory state + * into a permanent loop around this -EEXIST case + * if !CONFIG_PREEMPT and the I/O completion happens + * to be waiting on the CPU waitqueue where we are now + * busy looping, we just conditionally invoke the + * scheduler here, if there are some more important + * tasks to run. + */ + cond_resched(); continue; } if (err) { /* swp entry is obsolete ? */ -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/