Re: [RFC PATCH] btrfs: fix deadlock when defragging transparent huge pages
From: Filipe Manana <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-13 10:21:25
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 1:15 AM Omar Sandoval [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Omar Sandoval <redacted> Attempting to defragment a Btrfs file containing a transparent huge page immediately deadlocks with the following stack trace: #0 context_switch (kernel/sched/core.c:4940:2) #1 __schedule (kernel/sched/core.c:6287:8) #2 schedule (kernel/sched/core.c:6366:3) #3 io_schedule (kernel/sched/core.c:8389:2) #4 wait_on_page_bit_common (mm/filemap.c:1356:4) #5 __lock_page (mm/filemap.c:1648:2) #6 lock_page (./include/linux/pagemap.h:625:3) #7 pagecache_get_page (mm/filemap.c:1910:4) #8 find_or_create_page (./include/linux/pagemap.h:420:9) #9 defrag_prepare_one_page (fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1068:9) #10 defrag_one_range (fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1326:14) #11 defrag_one_cluster (fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1421:9) #12 btrfs_defrag_file (fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:1523:9) #13 btrfs_ioctl_defrag (fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3117:9) #14 btrfs_ioctl (fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4872:10) #15 vfs_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:51:10) #16 __do_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:874:11) #17 __se_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:860:1) #18 __x64_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:860:1) #19 do_syscall_x64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:50:14) #20 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:80:7) #21 entry_SYSCALL_64+0x7c/0x15b (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:113) A huge page is represented by a compound page, which consists of a struct page for each PAGE_SIZE page within the huge page. The first struct page is the "head page", and the remaining are "tail pages". Defragmentation attempts to lock each page in the range. However, lock_page() on a tail page actually locks the corresponding head page. So, if defragmentation tries to lock more than one struct page in a compound page, it tries to lock the same head page twice and deadlocks with itself. There are a few options for dealing with this: 1. Return an error if defrag is called for a transparent huge page. 2. Silently skip over defragging transparent huge pages. 3. Implement real support for defragging transparent huge pages. This patch implements option 1. The error code (ETXTBUSY) is up for bikeshedding. Option 2 seems reasonable as well. Option 3, however, would require more effort. THP for filesystems is currently read-only, so I suspect that a lot of code is not ready for using these pages for I/O.
Doing option 1 for now looks reasonable to me. In the long term, having option 3 would be nice. Looks good to me, thanks. Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <redacted>
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This can be reproduced with: $ cat create_thp_file.c #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> static const char zeroes[1024 * 1024]; static const size_t FILE_SIZE = 2 * 1024 * 1024; int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc != 2) { fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s PATH\n", argv[0]); return EXIT_FAILURE; } int fd = creat(argv[1], 0777); if (fd == -1) { perror("creat"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } size_t written = 0; while (written < FILE_SIZE) { ssize_t ret = write(fd, zeroes, sizeof(zeroes) < FILE_SIZE - written ? sizeof(zeroes) : FILE_SIZE - written); if (ret < 0) { perror("write"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } written += ret; } close(fd); fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); if (fd == -1) { perror("open"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } /* * Reserve some address space so that we can align the file mapping to * the huge page size. */ void *placeholder_map = mmap(NULL, FILE_SIZE * 2, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); if (placeholder_map == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap (placeholder)"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } void *aligned_address = (void *)(((uintptr_t)placeholder_map + FILE_SIZE - 1) & ~(FILE_SIZE - 1)); void *map = mmap(aligned_address, FILE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, fd, 0); if (map == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } if (madvise(map, FILE_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE) < 0) { perror("madvise"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } char *line = NULL; size_t line_capacity = 0; FILE *smaps_file = fopen("/proc/self/smaps", "r"); if (!smaps_file) { perror("fopen"); return EXIT_FAILURE; } for (;;) { for (size_t off = 0; off < FILE_SIZE; off += 4096) ((volatile char *)map)[off]; ssize_t ret; bool this_mapping = false; while ((ret = getline(&line, &line_capacity, smaps_file)) > 0) { unsigned long start, end, huge; if (sscanf(line, "%lx-%lx", &start, &end) == 2) { this_mapping = (start <= (uintptr_t)map && (uintptr_t)map < end); } else if (this_mapping && sscanf(line, "FilePmdMapped: %ld", &huge) == 1 && huge > 0) { return EXIT_SUCCESS; } } sleep(6); rewind(smaps_file); fflush(smaps_file); } } $ ./create_thp_file huge $ btrfs fi defrag -czstd ./huge Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <redacted> --- fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c index 9eb0c1eb568e..47c1a72241da 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c@@ -1069,7 +1069,10 @@ static struct page *defrag_prepare_one_page(struct btrfs_inode *inode, if (!page) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - ret = set_page_extent_mapped(page); + if (PageCompound(page)) + ret = -ETXTBSY; + else + ret = set_page_extent_mapped(page); if (ret < 0) { unlock_page(page); put_page(page); --2.33.0
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