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authorQi Zheng <[email protected]>2023-02-02 18:56:12 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2023-02-09 15:56:51 -0800
commitbadc28d4924bfed73efc93f716a0c3aa3afbdf6f (patch)
tree71a94e24eaf573ef94b3544d5db872a15a5fef7d /scripts/gdb
parent6b970599e807ea95c653926d41b095a92fd381e2 (diff)
mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs
The debugfs_remove_recursive() is invoked by unregister_shrinker(), which is holding the write lock of shrinker_rwsem. It will waits for the handler of debugfs file complete. The handler also needs to hold the read lock of shrinker_rwsem to do something. So it may cause the following deadlock: CPU0 CPU1 debugfs_file_get() shrinker_debugfs_count_show()/shrinker_debugfs_scan_write() unregister_shrinker() --> down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); debugfs_remove_recursive() // wait for (A) --> wait_for_completion(); // wait for (B) --> down_read_killable(&shrinker_rwsem) debugfs_file_put() -- (A) up_write() -- (B) The down_read_killable() can be killed, so that the above deadlock can be recovered. But it still requires an extra kill action, otherwise it will block all subsequent shrinker-related operations, so it's better to fix it. [[email protected]: fix CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG=n stub] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: 5035ebc644ae ("mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]> Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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