Re: [rfc] lru_add_drain_all() vs isolation

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

Hi Peter,

> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 10:17 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > [  774.651779] SysRq : Show Blocked State
> > [  774.655770]   task                        PC stack   pid father
> > [  774.655770] evolution.bin D ffff8800bc1575f0     0  7349   6459 0x00000000
> > [  774.676008]  ffff8800bc3c9d68 0000000000000086 ffff8800015d9340 ffff8800bb91b780
> > [  774.676008]  000000000000dd28 ffff8800bc3c9fd8 0000000000013340 0000000000013340
> > [  774.676008]  00000000000000fd ffff8800015d9340 ffff8800bc1575f0 ffff8800bc157888
> > [  774.676008] Call Trace:
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff812c4a11>] schedule_timeout+0x2d/0x20c
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff812c4891>] wait_for_common+0xde/0x155
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff8103f1cd>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x14
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff810c0e63>] ? lru_add_drain_per_cpu+0x0/0x10
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff810c0e63>] ? lru_add_drain_per_cpu+0x0/0x10
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff812c49ab>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x1f
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff8105fdf5>] flush_work+0x7f/0x93
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff8105f870>] ? wq_barrier_func+0x0/0x14
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff81060109>] schedule_on_each_cpu+0xb4/0xed
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff810c0c78>] lru_add_drain_all+0x15/0x17
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff810d1dbd>] sys_mlock+0x2e/0xde
> > [  774.676008]  [<ffffffff8100bc1b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> 
> FWIW, something like the below (prone to explode since its utterly
> untested) should (mostly) fix that one case. Something similar needs to
> be done for pretty much all machine wide workqueue thingies, possibly
> also flush_workqueue().

Can you please explain reproduce way and problem detail?

AFAIK, mlock() call lru_add_drain_all() _before_ grab semaphoe. Then,
it doesn't cause any deadlock.




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