From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755969Ab3J2SSj (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:18:39 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:59496 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754211Ab3J2SJP (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:09:15 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Fengguang Wu , Richard Weinberger , Geert Uytterhoeven , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.8 80/81] writeback: fix negative bdi max pause Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:04:41 -0700 Message-Id: <1383069882-11437-81-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1383069882-11437-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1383069882-11437-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.8.13.12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Fengguang Wu commit e3b6c655b91e01a1dade056cfa358581b47a5351 upstream. Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386. After some time it hangs and the last message line is BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521] It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large. More than 1000000000 pages in this case: period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000); BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000); <--------- UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here: ick: pause : -984 ick: pages_dirtied : 0 ick: task_ratelimit: 0 pause: + if (pause < 0) { + extern int printf(char *, ...); + printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause); + printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied); + printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit); + BUG_ON(1); + } trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi, Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also bounded by max_pause. It's suspected and demonstrated that the max_pause calculation goes wrong: ick: pause : -717 ick: min_pause : -177 ick: max_pause : -717 ick: pages_dirtied : 14 ick: task_ratelimit: 0 The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and the min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0. Fix all of them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu Reported-by: Toralf Förster Tested-by: Toralf Förster Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- mm/page-writeback.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 0713bfb..906d540 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1100,11 +1100,11 @@ static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty, return 1; } -static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, - unsigned long bdi_dirty) +static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, + unsigned long bdi_dirty) { - long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth; - long t; + unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth; + unsigned long t; /* * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8)); t++; - return min_t(long, t, MAX_PAUSE); + return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE); } static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, -- 1.8.1.2