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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 01:30:58PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > Running a fuse filesystem with multiple open()'s in parallel can
> > trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475"
> >
> > The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than
> > one concurrent invocation per inode. For example:
> >
> > thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and
> > stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count.
> >
> > thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on
> > the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the
> > vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily
> > returns without doing anything.
> >
> > Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to
> > restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its
> > own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to
> > finish.
> >
> > Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other
> > callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get
> > i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(),
> > which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called
> > with or without i_mutex.
>
>
> Which I think is mostly a fuse problem. I really hate bloating the
> generic inode (into which the address_space is embedded) with another
> mutex for deficits in rather special case filesystems.

As Hugh pointed out unmap_mapping_range() has grown a varied set of
callers, which are difficult to fix up wrt i_mutex. Fuse was just an
example.

I don't like the bloat either, but this is the best I could come up
with for fixing this problem generally. If you have a better idea,
please share it.

Thanks,
Miklos


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