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authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>2025-02-24 21:20:02 -0500
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-03-05 21:36:15 -0800
commitce6d9c1c2b5cc785016faa11b48b6cd317eb367e (patch)
tree3cd518c9d936916e57a75861eeb2ab865143aa2c /mm/compaction.c
parent57d910cffaa0be981f558ff603e2d896b36b8241 (diff)
NFS: fix nfs_release_folio() to not deadlock via kcompactd writeback
Add PF_KCOMPACTD flag and current_is_kcompactd() helper to check for it so nfs_release_folio() can skip calling nfs_wb_folio() from kcompactd. Otherwise NFS can deadlock waiting for kcompactd enduced writeback which recurses back to NFS (which triggers writeback to NFSD via NFS loopback mount on the same host, NFSD blocks waiting for XFS's call to __filemap_get_folio): 6070.550357] INFO: task kcompactd0:58 blocked for more than 4435 seconds. {--- [58] "kcompactd0" [<0>] folio_wait_bit+0xe8/0x200 [<0>] folio_wait_writeback+0x2b/0x80 [<0>] nfs_wb_folio+0x80/0x1b0 [nfs] [<0>] nfs_release_folio+0x68/0x130 [nfs] [<0>] split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x362/0x840 [<0>] migrate_pages_batch+0x43d/0xb90 [<0>] migrate_pages_sync+0x9a/0x240 [<0>] migrate_pages+0x93c/0x9f0 [<0>] compact_zone+0x8e2/0x1030 [<0>] compact_node+0xdb/0x120 [<0>] kcompactd+0x121/0x2e0 [<0>] kthread+0xcf/0x100 [<0>] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 [<0>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 ---} [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250225022002.26141-1-snitzer@kernel.org Fixes: 96780ca55e3c ("NFS: fix up nfs_release_folio() to try to release the page") Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/compaction.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 12ed8425fa17..a3203d97123e 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -3181,6 +3181,7 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p)
long default_timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(HPAGE_FRAG_CHECK_INTERVAL_MSEC);
long timeout = default_timeout;
+ current->flags |= PF_KCOMPACTD;
set_freezable();
pgdat->kcompactd_max_order = 0;
@@ -3237,6 +3238,8 @@ static int kcompactd(void *p)
pgdat->proactive_compact_trigger = false;
}
+ current->flags &= ~PF_KCOMPACTD;
+
return 0;
}