From 774a1221e862b343388347bac9b318767336b20b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:52:51 -0800 Subject: module, async: async_synchronize_full() on module init iff async is used If the default iosched is built as module, the kernel may deadlock while trying to load the iosched module on device probe if the probing was running off async. This is because async_synchronize_full() at the end of module init ends up waiting for the async job which initiated the module loading. async A modprobe 1. finds a device 2. registers the block device 3. request_module(default iosched) 4. modprobe in userland 5. load and init module 6. async_synchronize_full() Async A waits for modprobe to finish in request_module() and modprobe waits for async A to finish in async_synchronize_full(). Because there's no easy to track dependency once control goes out to userland, implementing properly nested flushing is difficult. For now, make module init perform async_synchronize_full() iff module init has queued async jobs as suggested by Linus. This avoids the described deadlock because iosched module doesn't use async and thus wouldn't invoke async_synchronize_full(). This is hacky and incomplete. It will deadlock if async module loading nests; however, this works around the known problem case and seems to be the best of bad options. For more details, please refer to the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Alex Riesen Tested-by: Ming Lei Tested-by: Alex Riesen Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/module.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/module.c') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 250092c1d57d..b10b048367e1 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3013,6 +3013,12 @@ static int do_init_module(struct module *mod) { int ret = 0; + /* + * We want to find out whether @mod uses async during init. Clear + * PF_USED_ASYNC. async_schedule*() will set it. + */ + current->flags &= ~PF_USED_ASYNC; + blocking_notifier_call_chain(&module_notify_list, MODULE_STATE_COMING, mod); @@ -3058,8 +3064,25 @@ static int do_init_module(struct module *mod) blocking_notifier_call_chain(&module_notify_list, MODULE_STATE_LIVE, mod); - /* We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence is done */ - async_synchronize_full(); + /* + * We need to finish all async code before the module init sequence + * is done. This has potential to deadlock. For example, a newly + * detected block device can trigger request_module() of the + * default iosched from async probing task. Once userland helper + * reaches here, async_synchronize_full() will wait on the async + * task waiting on request_module() and deadlock. + * + * This deadlock is avoided by perfomring async_synchronize_full() + * iff module init queued any async jobs. This isn't a full + * solution as it will deadlock the same if module loading from + * async jobs nests more than once; however, due to the various + * constraints, this hack seems to be the best option for now. + * Please refer to the following thread for details. + * + * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814 + */ + if (current->flags & PF_USED_ASYNC) + async_synchronize_full(); mutex_lock(&module_mutex); /* Drop initial reference. */ -- cgit v1.2.3