From: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com
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I am seeing missed wakeups which ultimately lead to a deadlock when I am using virtiofs with DAX enabled and running "make -j". I had to mount virtiofs as rootfs and also reduce to dax window size to 256M to reproduce the problem consistently.
So here is the problem. put_unlocked_entry() wakes up waiters only if entry is not null as well as !dax_is_conflict(entry). But if I call multiple instances of invalidate_inode_pages2() in parallel, then I can run into a situation where there are waiters on this index but nobody will wake these waiters.
invalidate_inode_pages2() invalidate_inode_pages2_range() invalidate_exceptional_entry2() dax_invalidate_mapping_entry_sync() __dax_invalidate_entry() { xas_lock_irq(&xas); entry = get_unlocked_entry(&xas, 0); ... ... dax_disassociate_entry(entry, mapping, trunc); xas_store(&xas, NULL); ... ... put_unlocked_entry(&xas, entry); xas_unlock_irq(&xas); }
Say a fault in in progress and it has locked entry at offset say "0x1c". Now say three instances of invalidate_inode_pages2() are in progress (A, B, C) and they all try to invalidate entry at offset "0x1c". Given dax entry is locked, all tree instances A, B, C will wait in wait queue.
When dax fault finishes, say A is woken up. It will store NULL entry at index "0x1c" and wake up B. When B comes along it will find "entry=0" at page offset 0x1c and it will call put_unlocked_entry(&xas, 0). And this means put_unlocked_entry() will not wake up next waiter, given the current code. And that means C continues to wait and is not woken up.
This patch fixes the issue by waking up all waiters when a dax entry has been invalidated. This seems to fix the deadlock I am facing and I can make forward progress.
Reported-by: Sergio Lopez slp@redhat.com Fixes: ac401cc78242 ("dax: New fault locking") Reviewed-by: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Suggested-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210428190314.1865312-4-vgoyal@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/dax.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 56eb1c759ca5..df5485b4bddf 100644 --- a/fs/dax.c +++ b/fs/dax.c @@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ static int __dax_invalidate_entry(struct address_space *mapping, mapping->nrexceptional--; ret = 1; out: - put_unlocked_entry(&xas, entry, WAKE_NEXT); + put_unlocked_entry(&xas, entry, WAKE_ALL); xas_unlock_irq(&xas); return ret; }