Dave has reported the following lockdep splat:
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
3.11.0-rc1+ #9 Not tainted
---------------------------------
inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
kswapd0/49 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c114971b>] page_referenced+0x87/0x5e3
{RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
mark_held_locks+0x81/0xe7
lockdep_trace_alloc+0x5e/0xbc
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x8b/0x9b6
__get_free_pages+0x20/0x31
get_zeroed_page+0x12/0x14
__pmd_alloc+0x1c/0x6b
huge_pmd_share+0x265/0x283
huge_pte_alloc+0x5d/0x71
hugetlb_fault+0x7c/0x64a
handle_mm_fault+0x255/0x299
__do_page_fault+0x142/0x55c
do_page_fault+0xd/0x16
error_code+0x6c/0x74
irq event stamp: 3136917
hardirqs last enabled at (3136917): _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x27/0x50
hardirqs last disabled at (3136916): _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x15/0x78
softirqs last enabled at (3136180): __do_softirq+0x137/0x30f
softirqs last disabled at (3136175): irq_exit+0xa8/0xaa
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
<Interrupt>
lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
*** DEADLOCK ***
no locks held by kswapd0/49.
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 PID: 49 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #9
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 490 /0DT031, BIOS A08 04/25/2008
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x4b/0x79
print_usage_bug+0x1d9/0x1e3
mark_lock+0x1e0/0x261
__lock_acquire+0x623/0x17f2
lock_acquire+0x7d/0x195
mutex_lock_nested+0x6c/0x3a7
page_referenced+0x87/0x5e3
shrink_page_list+0x3d9/0x947
shrink_inactive_list+0x155/0x4cb
shrink_lruvec+0x300/0x5ce
shrink_zone+0x53/0x14e
kswapd+0x517/0xa75
kthread+0xa8/0xaa
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x1b/0x28
which is a false positive caused by hugetlb pmd sharing code which
allocates a new pmd from withing mapping->i_mmap_mutex. If this
allocation causes reclaim then the lockdep detector complains that we
might self-deadlock.
This is not correct though, because hugetlb pages are not reclaimable so
their mapping will be never touched from the reclaim path.
The patch tells lockup detector that hugetlb i_mmap_mutex is special by
assigning it a separate lockdep class so it won't report possible
deadlocks on unrelated mappings.
[peterz@infradead.org: comment for annotation]
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
b610ded719