mm: fix assertion mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback()
Under heavy memory and filesystem load, users observe the assertion
mapping->nrpages == 0 in end_writeback() trigger. This can be caused by
page reclaim reclaiming the last page from a mapping in the following
race:
CPU0 CPU1
...
shrink_page_list()
__remove_mapping()
__delete_from_page_cache()
radix_tree_delete()
evict_inode()
truncate_inode_pages()
truncate_inode_pages_range()
pagevec_lookup() - finds nothing
end_writeback()
mapping->nrpages != 0 -> BUG
page->mapping = NULL
mapping->nrpages--
Fix the problem by doing a reliable check of mapping->nrpages under
mapping->tree_lock in end_writeback().
Analyzed by Jay <jinshan.xiong@whamcloud.com>, lost in LKML, and dug out
by Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.de>.
Cc: Jay <jinshan.xiong@whamcloud.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 0f7e88a..43566d1 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -423,7 +423,14 @@
void end_writeback(struct inode *inode)
{
might_sleep();
+ /*
+ * We have to cycle tree_lock here because reclaim can be still in the
+ * process of removing the last page (in __delete_from_page_cache())
+ * and we must not free mapping under it.
+ */
+ spin_lock_irq(&inode->i_data.tree_lock);
BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrpages);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&inode->i_data.tree_lock);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_data.private_list));
BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING));
BUG_ON(inode->i_state & I_CLEAR);