linux/kernel
Michal Hocko 7e7844226f lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection
The current implementation of the reclaim lockup detection can lead to
false positives and those even happen and usually lead to tweak the code
to silence the lockdep by using GFP_NOFS even though the context can use
__GFP_FS just fine.

See

  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160512080321.GA18496@dastard

as an example.

  =================================
  [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
  4.5.0-rc2+ #4 Tainted: G           O
  ---------------------------------
  inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-R} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
  kswapd0/543 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:

  (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++-+}, at: xfs_ilock+0x177/0x200 [xfs]

  {RECLAIM_FS-ON-R} state was registered at:
    mark_held_locks+0x79/0xa0
    lockdep_trace_alloc+0xb3/0x100
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x33/0x230
    kmem_zone_alloc+0x81/0x120 [xfs]
    xfs_refcountbt_init_cursor+0x3e/0xa0 [xfs]
    __xfs_refcount_find_shared+0x75/0x580 [xfs]
    xfs_refcount_find_shared+0x84/0xb0 [xfs]
    xfs_getbmap+0x608/0x8c0 [xfs]
    xfs_vn_fiemap+0xab/0xc0 [xfs]
    do_vfs_ioctl+0x498/0x670
    SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
    entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f

         CPU0
         ----
    lock(&xfs_nondir_ilock_class);
    <Interrupt>
      lock(&xfs_nondir_ilock_class);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  3 locks held by kswapd0/543:

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 0 PID: 543 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G           O    4.5.0-rc2+ #4
  Call Trace:
   lock_acquire+0xd8/0x1e0
   down_write_nested+0x5e/0xc0
   xfs_ilock+0x177/0x200 [xfs]
   xfs_reflink_cancel_cow_range+0x150/0x300 [xfs]
   xfs_fs_evict_inode+0xdc/0x1e0 [xfs]
   evict+0xc5/0x190
   dispose_list+0x39/0x60
   prune_icache_sb+0x4b/0x60
   super_cache_scan+0x14f/0x1a0
   shrink_slab.part.63.constprop.79+0x1e9/0x4e0
   shrink_zone+0x15e/0x170
   kswapd+0x4f1/0xa80
   kthread+0xf2/0x110
   ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70

To quote Dave:
 "Ignoring whether reflink should be doing anything or not, that's a
  "xfs_refcountbt_init_cursor() gets called both outside and inside
  transactions" lockdep false positive case. The problem here is lockdep
  has seen this allocation from within a transaction, hence a GFP_NOFS
  allocation, and now it's seeing it in a GFP_KERNEL context. Also note
  that we have an active reference to this inode.

  So, because the reclaim annotations overload the interrupt level
  detections and it's seen the inode ilock been taken in reclaim
  ("interrupt") context, this triggers a reclaim context warning where
  it thinks it is unsafe to do this allocation in GFP_KERNEL context
  holding the inode ilock..."

This sounds like a fundamental problem of the reclaim lock detection.
It is really impossible to annotate such a special usecase IMHO unless
the reclaim lockup detection is reworked completely.  Until then it is
much better to provide a way to add "I know what I am doing flag" and
mark problematic places.  This would prevent from abusing GFP_NOFS flag
which has a runtime effect even on configurations which have lockdep
disabled.

Introduce __GFP_NOLOCKDEP flag which tells the lockdep gfp tracking to
skip the current allocation request.

While we are at it also make sure that the radix tree doesn't
accidentaly override tags stored in the upper part of the gfp_mask.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
..
bpf bpf: enhance verifier to understand stack pointer arithmetic 2017-05-01 11:40:23 -04:00
cgroup Merge branch 'for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-05-01 13:52:24 -07:00
configs config: android-base: enable hardened usercopy and kernel ASLR 2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
debug sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
events Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2017-03-28 07:44:25 +02:00
gcov
irq Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 15:46:13 -07:00
livepatch Merge branches 'for-4.12/upstream' and 'for-4.12/klp-hybrid-consistency-model' into for-linus 2017-05-01 21:49:28 +02:00
locking lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
power Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
printk sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
rcu sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
sched Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-05-02 19:09:35 -07:00
time Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2017-05-02 19:09:35 -07:00
trace Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-05-02 16:40:27 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c audit: remove unnecessary semicolon in audit_mark_handle_event() 2017-05-02 10:16:04 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit: convert audit_tree.count from atomic_t to refcount_t 2017-05-02 10:16:04 -04:00
audit_watch.c audit: convert audit_watch.count from atomic_t to refcount_t 2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
audit.c Merge branch 'stable-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-05-03 09:21:59 -07:00
audit.h audit: Use timespec64 to represent audit timestamps 2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit: kernel generated netlink traffic should have a portid of 0 2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
auditsc.c audit: Use timespec64 to represent audit timestamps 2017-05-02 10:16:05 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c capability: export has_capability 2017-01-12 07:01:56 -07:00
compat.c time: Change k_clock nsleep() to use timespec64 2017-04-14 21:49:56 +02:00
configs.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-04-14 10:29:40 +02:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
delayacct.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c userfaultfd: non-cooperative: rollback userfaultfd_exit 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
extable.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
fork.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-05-03 08:50:52 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
futex.c futex: Clarify mark_wake_futex memory barrier usage 2017-04-15 16:03:46 +02:00
groups.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
hung_task.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
irq_work.c
jump_label.c This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes 2017-02-27 13:26:17 -08:00
kallsyms.c bpf: make jited programs visible in traces 2017-02-17 13:40:05 -05:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking/mutex: Allow MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when DEBUG_MUTEXES 2016-10-25 11:31:51 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c kcov: make kcov work properly with KASLR enabled 2016-12-20 09:48:47 -08:00
kexec_core.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-02-22 17:33:34 -08:00
kexec_file.c kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up 2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
kexec_internal.h kexec, x86/purgatory: Unbreak it and clean it up 2017-03-10 20:55:09 +01:00
kexec.c
kmod.c sched/headers, vfs/execve: Prepare to move the do_execve*() prototypes from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/binfmts.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
kprobes.c trace/kprobes: Fix check for kretprobe offset within function entry 2017-03-15 17:48:37 -03:00
ksysfs.c kernel/ksysfs.c: add __ro_after_init to bin_attribute structure 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
kthread.c cgroup, kthread: close race window where new kthreads can be migrated to non-root cgroups 2017-03-17 10:18:47 -04:00
latencytop.c sched/headers: Prepare to move sched_info_on() and force_schedstat_enabled() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
Makefile cgroup: move cgroup files under kernel/cgroup/ 2016-12-27 14:49:05 -05:00
membarrier.c Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled 2017-01-23 11:32:16 -08:00
memremap.c mm, zone_device: Replace {get, put}_zone_device_page() with a single reference to fix pmem crash 2017-05-01 09:15:53 +02:00
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c Merge branch 'stable-4.12' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-05-03 09:21:59 -07:00
notifier.c kernel/notifier.c: simplify expression 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
nsproxy.c perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info 2017-03-13 15:57:41 -03:00
padata.c padata: get_next is never NULL 2017-04-21 20:30:46 +08:00
panic.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
params.c boot/param: Move next_arg() function to lib/cmdline.c for later reuse 2017-04-18 10:37:13 +02:00
pid_namespace.c sched/headers: Prepare for the reduction of <linux/sched.h>'s signal API dependency 2017-03-02 08:42:37 +01:00
pid.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
profile.c sched/headers: Prepare to move sched_info_on() and force_schedstat_enabled() from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/stat.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
ptrace.c ptrace: fix PTRACE_LISTEN race corrupting task->state 2017-04-08 00:47:48 -07:00
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c Merge branch 'work.splice' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-02 11:38:06 -07:00
resource.c
seccomp.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task_stack.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:36 +01:00
signal.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
smp.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/idle.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:26 +01:00
smpboot.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c sched/core: Remove 'task' parameter and rename tsk_restore_flags() to current_restore_flags() 2017-04-11 09:06:32 +02:00
stacktrace.c stacktrace/x86: add function for detecting reliable stack traces 2017-03-08 09:18:02 +01:00
stop_machine.c locking/core, stop_machine: Yield the CPU during stop machine() 2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
sys_ni.c move aio compat to fs/aio.c 2016-12-22 22:58:37 -05:00
sys.c prlimit,security,selinux: add a security hook for prlimit 2017-03-06 10:43:47 +11:00
sysctl_binary.c net: Remove NET_CORE_BUDGET_USECS from sysctl binary interface. 2017-04-21 15:59:52 -04:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 16:15:18 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-11-15 10:54:36 -05:00
test_kprobes.c
torture.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:27 +01:00
tracepoint.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:35 +01:00
tsacct.c sched/headers: Prepare to move cputime functionality from <linux/sched.h> into <linux/sched/cputime.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:39 +01:00
ucount.c ucount: Remove the atomicity from ucount->count 2017-03-06 15:26:37 -06:00
uid16.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove <linux/cred.h> inclusion from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:31 +01:00
up.c
user_namespace.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/signal.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/user.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:29 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c sched/headers: Remove <linux/rwsem.h> from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-03 01:45:36 +01:00
utsname.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
watchdog_hld.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
watchdog.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/debug.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 19:12:53 -07:00