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<title>linux.git/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c, branch v6.8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T23:27:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-28T14:47:04+00:00</published>
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commit 23baf831a32c ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive.  This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.

To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
commit 23baf831a32c ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive.  This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.

To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm-bufio: fix no-sleep mode</title>
<updated>2023-11-17T19:41:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-17T17:36:34+00:00</published>
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dm-bufio has a no-sleep mode. When activated (with the
DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP flag), the bufio client is read-only and we
could call dm_bufio_get from tasklets. This is used by dm-verity.

Unfortunately, commit 450e8dee51aa ("dm bufio: improve concurrent IO
performance") broke this and the kernel would warn that cache_get()
was calling down_read() from no-sleeping context. The bug can be
reproduced by using "veritysetup open" with the "--use-tasklets"
flag.

This commit fixes dm-bufio, so that the tasklet mode works again, by
expanding use of the 'no_sleep_enabled' static_key to conditionally
use either a rw_semaphore or rwlock_t (which are colocated in the
buffer_tree structure using a union).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v6.4
Fixes: 450e8dee51aa ("dm bufio: improve concurrent IO performance")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
dm-bufio has a no-sleep mode. When activated (with the
DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP flag), the bufio client is read-only and we
could call dm_bufio_get from tasklets. This is used by dm-verity.

Unfortunately, commit 450e8dee51aa ("dm bufio: improve concurrent IO
performance") broke this and the kernel would warn that cache_get()
was calling down_read() from no-sleeping context. The bug can be
reproduced by using "veritysetup open" with the "--use-tasklets"
flag.

This commit fixes dm-bufio, so that the tasklet mode works again, by
expanding use of the 'no_sleep_enabled' static_key to conditionally
use either a rw_semaphore or rwlock_t (which are colocated in the
buffer_tree structure using a union).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v6.4
Fixes: 450e8dee51aa ("dm bufio: improve concurrent IO performance")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: dynamically allocate the dm-bufio shrinker</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T17:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qi Zheng</name>
<email>zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-11T09:44:22+00:00</published>
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In preparation for implementing lockless slab shrink, use new APIs to
dynamically allocate the dm-bufio shrinker, so that it can be freed
asynchronously via RCU. Then it doesn't need to wait for RCU read-side
critical section when releasing the struct dm_bufio_client.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911094444.68966-24-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Abhinav Kumar &lt;quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig &lt;alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chandan Babu R &lt;chandan.babu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Koenig &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dai Ngo &lt;Dai.Ngo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov &lt;dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Huang Rui &lt;ray.huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jeffle Xu &lt;jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Marijn Suijten &lt;marijn.suijten@somainline.org&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia &lt;kolga@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rob Clark &lt;robdclark@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;sean@poorly.run&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso &lt;tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Talpey &lt;tom@talpey.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin &lt;tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Yue Hu &lt;huyue2@coolpad.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
In preparation for implementing lockless slab shrink, use new APIs to
dynamically allocate the dm-bufio shrinker, so that it can be freed
asynchronously via RCU. Then it doesn't need to wait for RCU read-side
critical section when releasing the struct dm_bufio_client.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911094444.68966-24-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng &lt;zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Abhinav Kumar &lt;quic_abhinavk@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig &lt;alyssa.rosenzweig@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger.kernel@dilger.ca&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bob Peterson &lt;rpeterso@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chandan Babu R &lt;chandan.babu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;clm@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Koenig &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;cel@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dai Ngo &lt;Dai.Ngo@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov &lt;dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Huang Rui &lt;ray.huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim &lt;jaegeuk@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jeffle Xu &lt;jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen &lt;joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill Tkhai &lt;tkhai@ya.ru&gt;
Cc: Marijn Suijten &lt;marijn.suijten@somainline.org&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nadav Amit &lt;namit@vmware.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko &lt;oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com&gt;
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia &lt;kolga@netapp.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Rob Clark &lt;robdclark@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi &lt;rodrigo.vivi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;sean@poorly.run&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tomeu Vizoso &lt;tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Talpey &lt;tom@talpey.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin &lt;tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Xuan Zhuo &lt;xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Yue Hu &lt;huyue2@coolpad.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: get rid of GFP_NOIO workarounds for __vmalloc and kvmalloc</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T20:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-26T14:48:40+00:00</published>
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In the past, the function __vmalloc didn't respect the GFP flags - it
allocated memory with the provided gfp flags, but it allocated page tables
with GFP_KERNEL. This was fixed in commit 451769ebb7e7 ("mm/vmalloc:
alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc") so the memalloc_noio_{save,restore}
workaround is no longer needed.

The function kvmalloc didn't like flags different from GFP_KERNEL. This
was fixed in commit a421ef303008 ("mm: allow !GFP_KERNEL allocations
for kvmalloc"), so kvmalloc can now be called with GFP_NOIO.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
In the past, the function __vmalloc didn't respect the GFP flags - it
allocated memory with the provided gfp flags, but it allocated page tables
with GFP_KERNEL. This was fixed in commit 451769ebb7e7 ("mm/vmalloc:
alloc GFP_NO{FS,IO} for vmalloc") so the memalloc_noio_{save,restore}
workaround is no longer needed.

The function kvmalloc didn't like flags different from GFP_KERNEL. This
was fixed in commit a421ef303008 ("mm: allow !GFP_KERNEL allocations
for kvmalloc"), so kvmalloc can now be called with GFP_NOIO.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm thin metadata: Fix ABBA deadlock by resetting dm_bufio_client</title>
<updated>2023-06-16T22:24:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Lingfeng</name>
<email>lilingfeng3@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-05T07:03:16+00:00</published>
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As described in commit 8111964f1b85 ("dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between
shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata"), ABBA deadlocks will be
triggered because shrinker_rwsem currently needs to held by
dm_pool_abort_metadata() as a side-effect of thin-pool metadata
operation failure.

The following three problem scenarios have been noticed:

1) Described by commit 8111964f1b85 ("dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between
   shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata")

2) shrinker_rwsem and throttle-&gt;lock
          P1(drop cache)                        P2(kworker)
drop_caches_sysctl_handler
 drop_slab
  shrink_slab
   down_read(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)  - LOCK A
   do_shrink_slab
    super_cache_scan
     prune_icache_sb
      dispose_list
       evict
        ext4_evict_inode
         ext4_clear_inode
          ext4_discard_preallocations
           ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp
            ext4_mb_init_cache
             ext4_wait_block_bitmap
              __ext4_error
               ext4_handle_error
                ext4_commit_super
                 ...
                 dm_submit_bio
                                     do_worker
                                      throttle_work_update
                                       down_write(&amp;t-&gt;lock) -- LOCK B
                                      process_deferred_bios
                                       commit
                                        metadata_operation_failed
                                         dm_pool_abort_metadata
                                          dm_block_manager_create
                                           dm_bufio_client_create
                                            register_shrinker
                                             down_write(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)
                                             -- LOCK A
                 thin_map
                  thin_bio_map
                   thin_defer_bio_with_throttle
                    throttle_lock
                     down_read(&amp;t-&gt;lock)  - LOCK B

3) shrinker_rwsem and wait_on_buffer
          P1(drop cache)                            P2(kworker)
drop_caches_sysctl_handler
 drop_slab
  shrink_slab
   down_read(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)  - LOCK A
   do_shrink_slab
   ...
    ext4_wait_block_bitmap
     __ext4_error
      ext4_handle_error
       jbd2_journal_abort
        jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno
         jbd2_write_superblock
          submit_bh
           // LOCK B
           // RELEASE B
                             do_worker
                              throttle_work_update
                               down_write(&amp;t-&gt;lock) - LOCK B
                              process_deferred_bios
                               process_bio
                               commit
                                metadata_operation_failed
                                 dm_pool_abort_metadata
                                  dm_block_manager_create
                                   dm_bufio_client_create
                                    register_shrinker
                                     register_shrinker_prepared
                                      down_write(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)  - LOCK A
                               bio_endio
      wait_on_buffer
       __wait_on_buffer

Fix these by resetting dm_bufio_client without holding shrinker_rwsem.

Fixes: 8111964f1b85 ("dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Li Lingfeng &lt;lilingfeng3@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
As described in commit 8111964f1b85 ("dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between
shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata"), ABBA deadlocks will be
triggered because shrinker_rwsem currently needs to held by
dm_pool_abort_metadata() as a side-effect of thin-pool metadata
operation failure.

The following three problem scenarios have been noticed:

1) Described by commit 8111964f1b85 ("dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between
   shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata")

2) shrinker_rwsem and throttle-&gt;lock
          P1(drop cache)                        P2(kworker)
drop_caches_sysctl_handler
 drop_slab
  shrink_slab
   down_read(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)  - LOCK A
   do_shrink_slab
    super_cache_scan
     prune_icache_sb
      dispose_list
       evict
        ext4_evict_inode
         ext4_clear_inode
          ext4_discard_preallocations
           ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp
            ext4_mb_init_cache
             ext4_wait_block_bitmap
              __ext4_error
               ext4_handle_error
                ext4_commit_super
                 ...
                 dm_submit_bio
                                     do_worker
                                      throttle_work_update
                                       down_write(&amp;t-&gt;lock) -- LOCK B
                                      process_deferred_bios
                                       commit
                                        metadata_operation_failed
                                         dm_pool_abort_metadata
                                          dm_block_manager_create
                                           dm_bufio_client_create
                                            register_shrinker
                                             down_write(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)
                                             -- LOCK A
                 thin_map
                  thin_bio_map
                   thin_defer_bio_with_throttle
                    throttle_lock
                     down_read(&amp;t-&gt;lock)  - LOCK B

3) shrinker_rwsem and wait_on_buffer
          P1(drop cache)                            P2(kworker)
drop_caches_sysctl_handler
 drop_slab
  shrink_slab
   down_read(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)  - LOCK A
   do_shrink_slab
   ...
    ext4_wait_block_bitmap
     __ext4_error
      ext4_handle_error
       jbd2_journal_abort
        jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno
         jbd2_write_superblock
          submit_bh
           // LOCK B
           // RELEASE B
                             do_worker
                              throttle_work_update
                               down_write(&amp;t-&gt;lock) - LOCK B
                              process_deferred_bios
                               process_bio
                               commit
                                metadata_operation_failed
                                 dm_pool_abort_metadata
                                  dm_block_manager_create
                                   dm_bufio_client_create
                                    register_shrinker
                                     register_shrinker_prepared
                                      down_write(&amp;shrinker_rwsem)  - LOCK A
                               bio_endio
      wait_on_buffer
       __wait_on_buffer

Fix these by resetting dm_bufio_client without holding shrinker_rwsem.

Fixes: 8111964f1b85 ("dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Li Lingfeng &lt;lilingfeng3@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7fa8a8ee9400fe8ec188426e40e481717bc5e924'/>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T02:42:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-15T11:31:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=23baf831a32c04f9a968812511540b1b3e648bf5'/>
<id>23baf831a32c04f9a968812511540b1b3e648bf5</id>
<content type='text'>
MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.

This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.

Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.

[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;	[powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.

This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.

Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.

[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;	[powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Zi Yan &lt;ziy@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: improve hash_locks sizing and hash function</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T19:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Thornber</name>
<email>ejt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-29T14:29:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=363b7fd76c91dc611a56d992e9550bb1ba070e1a'/>
<id>363b7fd76c91dc611a56d992e9550bb1ba070e1a</id>
<content type='text'>
Both bufio and bio-prison-v1 use the identical model for splitting
their respective locks and rbtrees. Improve dm_num_hash_locks() to
distribute across more rbtrees to improve overall performance -- but
the maximum number of locks/rbtrees is still 64.

Also factor out a common hash function named dm_hash_locks_index(),
the magic numbers used were determined to be best using this program:
 https://gist.github.com/jthornber/e05c47daa7b500c56dc339269c5467fc

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Both bufio and bio-prison-v1 use the identical model for splitting
their respective locks and rbtrees. Improve dm_num_hash_locks() to
distribute across more rbtrees to improve overall performance -- but
the maximum number of locks/rbtrees is still 64.

Also factor out a common hash function named dm_hash_locks_index(),
the magic numbers used were determined to be best using this program:
 https://gist.github.com/jthornber/e05c47daa7b500c56dc339269c5467fc

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm bufio: intelligently size dm_buffer_cache's buffer_trees</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T19:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-27T18:30:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1e84c4b7322d44a5b7d7f83eced1f60cc0ecf1a4'/>
<id>1e84c4b7322d44a5b7d7f83eced1f60cc0ecf1a4</id>
<content type='text'>
Size the dm_buffer_cache's number of buffer_tree structs using
dm_num_hash_locks().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Size the dm_buffer_cache's number of buffer_tree structs using
dm_num_hash_locks().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm bufio: prepare to intelligently size dm_buffer_cache's buffer_trees</title>
<updated>2023-03-30T19:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-27T18:09:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=36c18b86390824f93ed1580500df9698978e2006'/>
<id>36c18b86390824f93ed1580500df9698978e2006</id>
<content type='text'>
Add num_locks member to dm_buffer_cache struct and use it rather than
the NR_LOCKS magic value (64).

Next commit will size the dm_buffer_cache's buffer_trees according to
dm_num_hash_locks().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add num_locks member to dm_buffer_cache struct and use it rather than
the NR_LOCKS magic value (64).

Next commit will size the dm_buffer_cache's buffer_trees according to
dm_num_hash_locks().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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