linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: fix schedule while atomic caused by gfp of erofs

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Message-ID: <dedea322-c2c5-4e1b-b5c6-0889a78c19fa@linux.alibaba.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:46:25 +0800
From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com>
Cc: "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>, Gao Xiang
 <xiang@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, Yue Hu <huyue2@...lpad.com>,
 Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>, Sandeep Dhavale
 <dhavale@...gle.com>, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, steve.kang@...soc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: fix schedule while atomic caused by gfp of
 erofs_allocpage



On 2024/7/16 14:43, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>

...

>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Why a rwsem sleepable lock disable preemption?
> emm, that's the original design of down_read()

No.

> 
>> 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.

Interesting.  The whole .readahead is sleepable, including
submit block I/Os to storage.

Nacked-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>

Thanks,
Gao Xiang