[PATCH 1/3] mm: Don't bother dropping mmap_sem for zero size readahead

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Wed Feb 12 2020 - 17:16:25 EST


From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

When handling a page fault, we drop mmap_sem to start async readahead so
that we don't block on IO submission with mmap_sem held. However
there's no point to drop mmap_sem in case readahead is disabled. Handle
that case to avoid pointless dropping of mmap_sem and retrying the
fault. This was actually reported to block mlockall(MCL_CURRENT)
indefinitely.

Fixes: 6b4c9f446981 ("filemap: drop the mmap_sem for all blocking operations")
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Robert Stupp <snazy@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 1784478270e1..5bffaa2176cd 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2416,7 +2416,7 @@ static struct file *do_async_mmap_readahead(struct vm_fault *vmf,
pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;

/* If we don't want any read-ahead, don't bother */
- if (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_RAND_READ)
+ if (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_RAND_READ || !ra->ra_pages)
return fpin;
if (ra->mmap_miss > 0)
ra->mmap_miss--;
--
2.25.0.225.g125e21ebc7-goog