From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/18] mm: Allow non-hugetlb large folios to be batch processed
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 20:42:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZeomzeDGJ3U7nspv@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57257477-8314-4898-aac6-82585dcb3508@arm.com>
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 06:35:16PM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> I noticed commit dfa3df509576 ("mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list")
> turned up in mm-unstable today (after I sent the above). Although I haven't done
> much of the exact testing that was previously causing oopses, I also haven't
> seen any since I rebased onto today's mm-unstable. Could that fix be helping us?
I wish. Wrong list (lru vs deferred), and the symptom of that crash was
an immediate crash, not a deferred one. Although maybe with the
right/wrong debugging options ...
> > The thought occurs that we don't need to take the folios off the list.
> > I don't know that will fix anything, but this will fix your "running out
> > of memory" problem -- I forgot to drop the reference if folio_trylock()
> > failed.
>
> Ugh, how did I not spot that! So I guess that fits the hypothesis that the
> original change is just increasing the race window and therefore we are leaking
> more folios due to the failed trylock.
It doesn't _confirm_ it, but it certainly fits the theory!
Thanks for testing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-07 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-27 17:42 [PATCH v3 00/18] Rearrange batched folio freeing Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 01/18] mm: Make folios_put() the basis of release_pages() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 02/18] mm: Convert free_unref_page_list() to use folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 03/18] mm: Add free_unref_folios() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 04/18] mm: Use folios_put() in __folio_batch_release() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 05/18] memcg: Add mem_cgroup_uncharge_folios() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 06/18] mm: Remove use of folio list from folios_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 07/18] mm: Use free_unref_folios() in put_pages_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 08/18] mm: use __page_cache_release() in folios_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 09/18] mm: Handle large folios in free_unref_folios() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 10/18] mm: Allow non-hugetlb large folios to be batch processed Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-03-06 13:42 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-06 16:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-06 16:19 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-06 17:41 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-06 18:41 ` Zi Yan
2024-03-06 19:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-06 21:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-07 8:56 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-07 13:50 ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-03-07 14:05 ` Re: Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-07 15:24 ` Re: Ryan Roberts
2024-03-07 16:24 ` Re: Ryan Roberts
2024-03-07 23:02 ` Re: Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-08 1:06 ` Re: Yin, Fengwei
2024-03-07 17:33 ` [PATCH v3 10/18] mm: Allow non-hugetlb large folios to be batch processed Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-07 18:35 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-07 20:42 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-03-08 11:44 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-08 12:09 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-08 14:21 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-08 15:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-08 16:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-08 17:13 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-08 18:09 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-08 18:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-09 4:34 ` Andrew Morton
2024-03-09 4:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-09 8:05 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-09 12:33 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-10 13:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-08 15:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-09 6:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-09 7:59 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-09 8:18 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-09 9:38 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-10 4:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-10 8:23 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-10 11:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-10 11:01 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-10 11:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-10 16:31 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-10 19:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-10 19:59 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-10 20:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-10 21:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-11 9:01 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-11 12:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-11 12:36 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-11 15:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-11 16:14 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-11 17:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-12 11:57 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-11 19:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-10 11:14 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 11/18] mm: Free folios in a batch in shrink_folio_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] mm: Free folios directly in move_folios_to_lru() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 13/18] memcg: Remove mem_cgroup_uncharge_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 14/18] mm: Remove free_unref_page_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 15/18] mm: Remove lru_to_page() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 16/18] mm: Convert free_pages_and_swap_cache() to use folios_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 17/18] mm: Use a folio in __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-02-27 17:42 ` [PATCH v3 18/18] mm: Convert free_swap_cache() to take a folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
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