Re: [PATCH v5 8/8] mm: huge_memory: enable debugfs to split huge pages to any order.

[Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>]

On 01/03/2024 09:51, Aishwarya TCV wrote:
> 
> 
> On 26/02/2024 20:55, Zi Yan wrote:
>> From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
>>
>> It is used to test split_huge_page_to_list_to_order for pagecache THPs.
>> Also add test cases for split_huge_page_to_list_to_order via both
>> debugfs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/huge_memory.c                              |  34 ++++--
>>  .../selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c       | 115 +++++++++++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Hi Zi,
> 
> When booting the kernel against next-master(20240228)with Arm64 on
> Marvell Thunder X2 (TX2), the kselftest-mm test 'split_huge_page_test'
> is failing in our CI (with rootfs over NFS). I can send the full logs if
> required.

Just to add, I took a quick eyeball and I think there a couple of potential issues:

  - In create_pagecache_thp_and_fd() you do *fd = open(testfile, O_CREAT ...);
    where testfile is /mnt/thp_fs/testfile. So if /mnt/thp_fs doesn't exist,
    then the open will fail I think? I'm pretty sure that's what's happening on
    our CI. Suggest the test needs to setup this dir itself. Is thp_fs a mounted
    fs or just a dir? If the latter can you just mktemp()?

  - Later in create_pagecache_thp_and_fd() you fail the test if you don't have a
    filesystem that supports large folios. Can we turn that into a skip? That
    would reduce noise on the CI.

Thanks,
Ryan

> 
> A bisect (full log below) identified this patch as introducing the
> failure. Bisected it on the tag "next-20240228" at repo
> "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git".
> 
> This works fine on  Linux version 6.8.0-rc6
> 
> 
> Sample log from failure against run on TX2:
> ------
> 07:17:34.056125  # # ------------------------------
> 07:17:34.056543  # # running ./split_huge_page_test
> 07:17:34.056839  # # ------------------------------
> 07:17:34.057114  # # TAP version 13
> 07:17:34.058564  # # 1..12
> 07:17:34.156822  # # ok 1 Split huge pages successful
> 07:17:34.214074  # # ok 2 Split PTE-mapped huge pages successful
> 07:17:34.215630  # # # Please enable pr_debug in
> split_huge_pages_in_file() for more info.
> 07:17:34.225503  # # # Please check dmesg for more information
> 07:17:34.225862  # # ok 3 File-backed THP split test done
> 07:17:34.236944  # # Bail out! Failed to create a file at /mnt/thp_fs#
> Planned tests != run tests (12 != 3)
> 07:17:34.237307  # # # Totals: pass:3 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
> 07:17:34.237620  # # [FAIL]
> 07:17:34.246430  # not ok 51 split_huge_page_test # exit=1
> 
> 
> Bisect log:
> ------
> git bisect start
> # good: [d206a76d7d2726f3b096037f2079ce0bd3ba329b] Linux 6.8-rc6
> git bisect good d206a76d7d2726f3b096037f2079ce0bd3ba329b
> # bad: [20af1ca418d2c0b11bc2a1fe8c0c88f67bcc2a7e] Add linux-next
> specific files for 20240228
> git bisect bad 20af1ca418d2c0b11bc2a1fe8c0c88f67bcc2a7e
> # bad: [1322f1801e59dddce10591d602d246c1bf49990c] Merge branch 'main' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git
> git bisect bad 1322f1801e59dddce10591d602d246c1bf49990c
> # bad: [a82f70041487790b7b09fe4bb45436e1b57021d3] Merge branch 'dev' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
> git bisect bad a82f70041487790b7b09fe4bb45436e1b57021d3
> # bad: [ce90480b9352ba2bebe8946dad9223e3f24c6e9a] Merge branch
> 'for-next' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap.git
> git bisect bad ce90480b9352ba2bebe8946dad9223e3f24c6e9a
> # bad: [5daac92ed3881fd0c656478a301a4e1d124100ee] Merge branch
> 'mm-everything' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> git bisect bad 5daac92ed3881fd0c656478a301a4e1d124100ee
> # good: [acc2643d9e988c63dd4629a9af380ad9ac69c54a] Merge branch
> 'mm-stable' into mm-unstable
> git bisect good acc2643d9e988c63dd4629a9af380ad9ac69c54a
> # good: [0294de8fe7d7c1a7eddc979cbf4c1886406e36b7] Merge branch 'fixes'
> of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-power-supply.git
> git bisect good 0294de8fe7d7c1a7eddc979cbf4c1886406e36b7
> # good: [83e0c8f0e777a1ef0977b2f8189101765703b32d] Merge branch
> 'mm-nonmm-stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> git bisect good 83e0c8f0e777a1ef0977b2f8189101765703b32d
> # good: [a739cbe236e0dd3b6ff26a01fa1d31c73d4fac93] mm: memcg: make memcg
> huge page split support any order split
> git bisect good a739cbe236e0dd3b6ff26a01fa1d31c73d4fac93
> # bad: [efb520aa333b2f11daaaaa13f4a598b5ae4ae823] mm: allow non-hugetlb
> large folios to be batch processed
> git bisect bad efb520aa333b2f11daaaaa13f4a598b5ae4ae823
> # bad: [2258bdebb55e3ad3d30fd3849ddb955ff36825de] mm/zsmalloc: don't
> hold locks of all pages when free_zspage()
> git bisect bad 2258bdebb55e3ad3d30fd3849ddb955ff36825de
> # bad: [7fc0be45acf2878cbacc4dba56923c34c3fd8b1e] mm: remove
> total_mapcount()
> git bisect bad 7fc0be45acf2878cbacc4dba56923c34c3fd8b1e
> # good: [d55fac55da2f87ad5a99178e107df09770bbc411] mm: thp: split huge
> page to any lower order pages
> git bisect good d55fac55da2f87ad5a99178e107df09770bbc411
> # bad: [4050d591c1aaf9336c08511fa5984827186e9ad1] mm/memfd: refactor
> memfd_tag_pins() and memfd_wait_for_pins()
> git bisect bad 4050d591c1aaf9336c08511fa5984827186e9ad1
> # bad: [c0ba89c29ef559c95273feb481b049f622c43c17] mm: huge_memory:
> enable debugfs to split huge pages to any order
> git bisect bad c0ba89c29ef559c95273feb481b049f622c43c17
> # first bad commit: [c0ba89c29ef559c95273feb481b049f622c43c17] mm:
> huge_memory: enable debugfs to split huge pages to any order
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Aishwarya