Re: pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write() causing deadlock

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:57:45 -0800
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > We are looking at a customer situation (on 2.6.16-based distro) - where
> > system becomes almost useless while running some java & stress tests.
> >
> > Root cause seems to be taking a pagefault in generic_file_buffered_write
> > () after calling prepare_write. I am wondering 
> >
> > 1) Why & How this can happen - since we made sure to fault the user
> > buffer before prepare write.
> >     
>
> When using writev() we only fault in the first segment of the iovec.  If
> the second or succesive segment isn't mapped into pagetables we're
> vulnerable to the deadlock.
>   

Yes. I remember this change. Thank you.
>   
> > 2) If this is already fixed in current mainline (I can't see how).
> >     
>
> It was fixed in 2.6.17.
>
> You'll need 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83 and
> 81b0c8713385ce1b1b9058e916edcf9561ad76d6
>   
I will try to get this change into customer :(

Thanks,
Badari

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