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Huang Ying fb3592c41a migrate_pages: fix deadlock in batched migration
Patch series "migrate_pages: fix deadlock in batched synchronous
migration", v2.

Two deadlock bugs were reported for the migrate_pages() batching series. 
Thanks Hugh and Pengfei.  Analysis shows that if we have locked some other
folios except the one we are migrating, it's not safe in general to wait
synchronously, for example, to wait the writeback to complete or wait to
lock the buffer head.

So 1/3 fixes the deadlock in a simple way, where the batching support for
the synchronous migration is disabled.  The change is straightforward and
easy to be understood.  While 3/3 re-introduce the batching for
synchronous migration via trying to migrate asynchronously in batch
optimistically, then fall back to migrate synchronously one by one for
fail-to-migrate folios.  Test shows that this can restore the TLB flushing
batching performance for synchronous migration effectively.


This patch (of 3):

Two deadlock bugs were reported for the migrate_pages() batching series. 
Thanks Hugh and Pengfei!  For example, in the following deadlock trace
snippet,

 INFO: task kworker/u4:0:9 blocked for more than 147 seconds.
       Not tainted 6.2.0-rc4-kvm+ #1314
 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:kworker/u4:0    state:D stack:0     pid:9     ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
 Workqueue: loop4 loop_rootcg_workfn
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __schedule+0x43b/0xd00
  schedule+0x6a/0xf0
  io_schedule+0x4a/0x80
  folio_wait_bit_common+0x1b5/0x4e0
  ? __pfx_wake_page_function+0x10/0x10
  __filemap_get_folio+0x73d/0x770
  shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x1fd/0xc80
  shmem_write_begin+0x91/0x220
  generic_perform_write+0x10e/0x2e0
  __generic_file_write_iter+0x17e/0x290
  ? generic_write_checks+0x12b/0x1a0
  generic_file_write_iter+0x97/0x180
  ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1a/0x20
  do_iter_readv_writev+0x13c/0x210
  ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp4+0x1a/0x20
  do_iter_write+0xf6/0x330
  vfs_iter_write+0x46/0x70
  loop_process_work+0x723/0xfe0
  loop_rootcg_workfn+0x28/0x40
  process_one_work+0x3cc/0x8d0
  worker_thread+0x66/0x630
  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0x153/0x190
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
  </TASK>

 INFO: task repro:1023 blocked for more than 147 seconds.
       Not tainted 6.2.0-rc4-kvm+ #1314
 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:repro           state:D stack:0     pid:1023  ppid:360    flags:0x00004004
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __schedule+0x43b/0xd00
  schedule+0x6a/0xf0
  io_schedule+0x4a/0x80
  folio_wait_bit_common+0x1b5/0x4e0
  ? compaction_alloc+0x77/0x1150
  ? __pfx_wake_page_function+0x10/0x10
  folio_wait_bit+0x30/0x40
  folio_wait_writeback+0x2e/0x1e0
  migrate_pages_batch+0x555/0x1ac0
  ? __pfx_compaction_alloc+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_compaction_free+0x10/0x10
  ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x17/0x20
  ? lock_is_held_type+0xe6/0x140
  migrate_pages+0x100e/0x1180
  ? __pfx_compaction_free+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_compaction_alloc+0x10/0x10
  compact_zone+0xe10/0x1b50
  ? lock_is_held_type+0xe6/0x140
  ? check_preemption_disabled+0x80/0xf0
  compact_node+0xa3/0x100
  ? __sanitizer_cov_trace_const_cmp8+0x1c/0x30
  ? _find_first_bit+0x7b/0x90
  sysctl_compaction_handler+0x5d/0xb0
  proc_sys_call_handler+0x29d/0x420
  proc_sys_write+0x2b/0x40
  vfs_write+0x3a3/0x780
  ksys_write+0xb7/0x180
  __x64_sys_write+0x26/0x30
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
 RIP: 0033:0x7f3a2471f59d
 RSP: 002b:00007ffe567f7288 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f3a2471f59d
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
 RBP: 00007ffe567f72a0 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000010
 R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 00000000004012e0
 R13: 00007ffe567f73e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
  </TASK>

The page migration task has held the lock of the shmem folio A, and is
waiting the writeback of the folio B of the file system on the loop block
device to complete.  While the loop worker task which writes back the
folio B is waiting to lock the shmem folio A, because the folio A backs
the folio B in the loop device.  Thus deadlock is triggered.

In general, if we have locked some other folios except the one we are
migrating, it's not safe to wait synchronously, for example, to wait the
writeback to complete or wait to lock the buffer head.

To fix the deadlock, in this patch, we avoid to batch the page migration
except for MIGRATE_ASYNC mode.  In MIGRATE_ASYNC mode, synchronous waiting
is avoided.

The fix can be improved further.  We will do that as soon as possible.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303030155.160983-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/87a6c8c-c5c1-67dc-1e32-eb30831d6e3d@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/874jrg7kke.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230227110614.dngdub2j3exr6dfp@quack3/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230303030155.160983-2-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: 5dfab109d5 ("migrate_pages: batch _unmap and _move")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: "Xu, Pengfei" <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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