linux/fs/drop_caches.c
Jan Kara c27d82f52f fs/drop_caches.c: avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb()
When superblock has lots of inodes without any pagecache (like is the
case for /proc), drop_pagecache_sb() will iterate through all of them
without dropping sb->s_inode_list_lock which can lead to softlockups
(one of our customers hit this).

Fix the problem by going to the slow path and doing cond_resched() in
case the process needs rescheduling.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190114085343.15011-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Implement the manual drop-all-pagecache function
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include "internal.h"
/* A global variable is a bit ugly, but it keeps the code simple */
int sysctl_drop_caches;
static void drop_pagecache_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *unused)
{
struct inode *inode, *toput_inode = NULL;
spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(inode, &sb->s_inodes, i_sb_list) {
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
/*
* We must skip inodes in unusual state. We may also skip
* inodes without pages but we deliberately won't in case
* we need to reschedule to avoid softlockups.
*/
if ((inode->i_state & (I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE|I_NEW)) ||
(inode->i_mapping->nrpages == 0 && !need_resched())) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
continue;
}
__iget(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
cond_resched();
invalidate_mapping_pages(inode->i_mapping, 0, -1);
iput(toput_inode);
toput_inode = inode;
spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
}
spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock);
iput(toput_inode);
}
int drop_caches_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
{
int ret;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
if (ret)
return ret;
if (write) {
static int stfu;
if (sysctl_drop_caches & 1) {
iterate_supers(drop_pagecache_sb, NULL);
count_vm_event(DROP_PAGECACHE);
}
if (sysctl_drop_caches & 2) {
drop_slab();
count_vm_event(DROP_SLAB);
}
if (!stfu) {
pr_info("%s (%d): drop_caches: %d\n",
current->comm, task_pid_nr(current),
sysctl_drop_caches);
}
stfu |= sysctl_drop_caches & 4;
}
return 0;
}