Re: [PATCH] mm: zswap: fix writeback shinker GFP_NOIO/GFP_NOFS recursion

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Mar 21 2024 - 14:58:20 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 02:25:32PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Kent forwards this bug report of zswap re-entering the block layer
> from an IO request allocation and locking up:
>
> [10264.128242] sysrq: Show Blocked State
> [10264.128268] task:kworker/20:0H state:D stack:0 pid:143 tgid:143 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
> [10264.128271] Workqueue: bcachefs_io btree_write_submit [bcachefs]
> [10264.128295] Call Trace:
> [10264.128295] <TASK>
> [10264.128297] __schedule+0x3e6/0x1520
> [10264.128303] schedule+0x32/0xd0
> [10264.128304] schedule_timeout+0x98/0x160
> [10264.128308] io_schedule_timeout+0x50/0x80
> [10264.128309] wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0x7f/0x180
> [10264.128310] submit_bio_wait+0x78/0xb0
> [10264.128313] swap_writepage_bdev_sync+0xf6/0x150
> [10264.128317] zswap_writeback_entry+0xf2/0x180
> [10264.128319] shrink_memcg_cb+0xe7/0x2f0
> [10264.128322] __list_lru_walk_one+0xb9/0x1d0
> [10264.128325] list_lru_walk_one+0x5d/0x90
> [10264.128326] zswap_shrinker_scan+0xc4/0x130
> [10264.128327] do_shrink_slab+0x13f/0x360
> [10264.128328] shrink_slab+0x28e/0x3c0
> [10264.128329] shrink_one+0x123/0x1b0
> [10264.128331] shrink_node+0x97e/0xbc0
> [10264.128332] do_try_to_free_pages+0xe7/0x5b0
> [10264.128333] try_to_free_pages+0xe1/0x200
> [10264.128334] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x343/0xde0
> [10264.128337] __alloc_pages+0x32d/0x350
> [10264.128338] allocate_slab+0x400/0x460
> [10264.128339] ___slab_alloc+0x40d/0xa40
> [10264.128345] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2e7/0x330
> [10264.128348] mempool_alloc+0x86/0x1b0
> [10264.128349] bio_alloc_bioset+0x200/0x4f0
> [10264.128352] bio_alloc_clone+0x23/0x60
> [10264.128354] alloc_io+0x26/0xf0 [dm_mod 7e9e6b44df4927f93fb3e4b5c782767396f58382]
> [10264.128361] dm_submit_bio+0xb8/0x580 [dm_mod 7e9e6b44df4927f93fb3e4b5c782767396f58382]
> [10264.128366] __submit_bio+0xb0/0x170
> [10264.128367] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x159/0x370
> [10264.128368] bch2_submit_wbio_replicas+0x21c/0x3a0 [bcachefs 85f1b9a7a824f272eff794653a06dde1a94439f2]
> [10264.128391] btree_write_submit+0x1cf/0x220 [bcachefs 85f1b9a7a824f272eff794653a06dde1a94439f2]
> [10264.128406] process_one_work+0x178/0x350
> [10264.128408] worker_thread+0x30f/0x450
> [10264.128409] kthread+0xe5/0x120
>
> The zswap shrinker resumes the swap_writepage()s that were intercepted
> by the zswap store. This will enter the block layer, and may even
> enter the filesystem depending on the swap backing file.
>
> Make it respect GFP_NOIO and GFP_NOFS.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/rc4pk2r42oyvjo4dc62z6sovquyllq56i5cdgcaqbd7wy3hfzr@n4nbxido3fme/
> Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>

Andrew can you please also add:

Reported-by: Jérôme Poulin <jeromepoulin@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks