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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: [patch 5/9] mm: debug write deadlocks
Date: Sun,  4 Feb 2007 09:50:28 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070204063754.23659.28403.sendpatchset@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070204063707.23659.20741.sendpatchset@linux.site>

Allow CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to switch off the prefaulting logic, to simulate the
difficult race where the page may be unmapped before calling copy_from_user.
Makes the race much easier to hit.

This is useful for demonstration and testing purposes, but is removed in a
subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2103,6 +2103,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
 		if (maxlen > bytes)
 			maxlen = bytes;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 		/*
 		 * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
 		 * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
@@ -2110,6 +2111,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
 		 * up-to-date.
 		 */
 		fault_in_pages_readable(buf, maxlen);
+#endif
 
 		page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
 		if (!page) {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-04  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-04  8:49 [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:49 ` [patch 1/9] fs: libfs buffered write leak fix Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:50 ` [patch 2/9] mm: revert "generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero length iovec segments" Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:50 ` [patch 3/9] mm: revert "generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write" Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:50 ` [patch 4/9] mm: generic_file_buffered_write cleanup Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:50 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-02-04  8:50 ` [patch 6/9] mm: be sure to trim blocks Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:50 ` [patch 7/9] mm: cleanup pagecache insertion operations Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:50 ` [patch 8/9] mm: generic_file_buffered_write iovec cleanup Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  8:51 ` [patch 9/9] mm: fix pagecache write deadlocks Nick Piggin
2007-02-04  9:44   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-04 10:15     ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 10:26       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-04 10:30       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-04 10:46         ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 10:50           ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 10:56           ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-04 11:03             ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 11:15               ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-04 15:10                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 18:36                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-06  2:25                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-06  4:41                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-06  5:30                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-06  5:49                           ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-06  5:53                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 10:59     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-02-04 11:10       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-04 11:22         ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-04 17:40         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2007-02-06  2:09           ` Nick Piggin
2007-02-06 13:13             ` Anton Altaparmakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-29 10:31 [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix Nick Piggin
2007-01-29 10:32 ` [patch 5/9] mm: debug write deadlocks Nick Piggin

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