Tetsuo has noticed that an OOM stress test which performs large write
requests can cause the full memory reserves depletion. He has tracked
this down to the following path
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x436/0x4d0
alloc_pages_current+0x97/0x1b0
__page_cache_alloc+0x15d/0x1a0 mm/filemap.c:728
pagecache_get_page+0x5a/0x2b0 mm/filemap.c:1331
grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x23/0x40 mm/filemap.c:2773
iomap_write_begin+0x50/0xd0 fs/iomap.c:118
iomap_write_actor+0xb5/0x1a0 fs/iomap.c:190
? iomap_write_end+0x80/0x80 fs/iomap.c:150
iomap_apply+0xb3/0x130 fs/iomap.c:79
iomap_file_buffered_write+0x68/0xa0 fs/iomap.c:243
? iomap_write_end+0x80/0x80
xfs_file_buffered_aio_write+0x132/0x390 [xfs]
? remove_wait_queue+0x59/0x60
xfs_file_write_iter+0x90/0x130 [xfs]
__vfs_write+0xe5/0x140
vfs_write+0xc7/0x1f0
? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d0/0x380
SyS_write+0x58/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x200
entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
the oom victim has access to all memory reserves to make a forward
progress to exit easier. But iomap_file_buffered_write and other
callers of iomap_apply loop to complete the full request. We need to
check for fatal signals and back off with a short write instead.
As the iomap_apply delegates all the work down to the actor we have to
hook into those. All callers that work with the page cache are calling
iomap_write_begin so we will check for signals there. dax_iomap_actor
has to handle the situation explicitly because it copies data to the
userspace directly. Other callers like iomap_page_mkwrite work on a
single page or iomap_fiemap_actor do not allocate memory based on the
given len.
Fixes: 68a9f5e7007c ("xfs: implement iomap based buffered write path")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.8+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct blk_dax_ctl dax = { 0 };
ssize_t map_len;
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+ ret = -EINTR;
+ break;
+ }
+
dax.sector = dax_iomap_sector(iomap, pos);
dax.size = (length + offset + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
map_len = dax_map_atomic(iomap->bdev, &dax);
BUG_ON(pos + len > iomap->offset + iomap->length);
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+ return -EINTR;
+
page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(inode->i_mapping, index, flags);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;