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From: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/skbuff: silence warnings under memory pressure
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:14:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1567599263.5576.72.camel@lca.pw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190904074312.GA25744@jagdpanzerIV>

On Wed, 2019-09-04 at 16:43 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (09/04/19 16:19), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > Hmm. I need to look at this more... wake_up_klogd() queues work only once
> > on particular CPU: irq_work_queue(this_cpu_ptr(&wake_up_klogd_work));
> > 
> > bool irq_work_queue()
> > {
> > 	/* Only queue if not already pending */
> > 	if (!irq_work_claim(work))
> > 		return false;
> > 
> > 	 __irq_work_queue_local(work);
> > }
> 
> Plus one more check - waitqueue_active(&log_wait). printk() adds
> pending irq_work only if there is a user-space process sleeping on
> log_wait and irq_work is not already scheduled. If the syslog is
> active or there is noone to wakeup then we don't queue irq_work.

Another possibility for this potential livelock is that those printk() from
warn_alloc(), dump_stack() and show_mem() increase the time it needs to process
build_skb() allocation failures significantly under memory pressure. As the
result, ksoftirqd() could be rescheduled during that time via a different CPU
(this is a large x86 NUMA system anyway),

[83605.577256][   C31]  run_ksoftirqd+0x1f/0x40
[83605.577256][   C31]  smpboot_thread_fn+0x255/0x440
[83605.577256][   C31]  kthread+0x1df/0x200
[83605.577256][   C31]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

In addition, those printk() will deal with console drivers or even a networking
console, so it is probably not unusual that it could call irq_exit()-
>__do_softirq() at one point and then this livelock.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-04 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-30 14:57 [PATCH] net/skbuff: silence warnings under memory pressure Qian Cai
2019-08-30 15:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-08-30 15:25   ` Qian Cai
2019-08-30 16:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2019-08-30 18:06       ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 13:22       ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 15:42         ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 18:53           ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 21:42             ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04  6:15               ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04  6:41                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04  6:54                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04  7:19                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04  7:43                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04 12:14                         ` Qian Cai [this message]
2019-09-04 14:48                           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04 15:07                             ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04 20:42                             ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05  8:32                               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-09-05 14:09                                 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 15:06                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-09-05 15:14                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-09-05 11:32                               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-05 16:03                                 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 17:14                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-06  2:50                                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06  4:32                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 21:17                                     ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 17:23                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-06  3:39                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 15:32                                     ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-09  1:10                                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 14:55                                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-06 19:51                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-14 17:12                                 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-18 15:27                                   ` Petr Mladek
2019-11-19  0:41                                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-19  9:41                                       ` Petr Mladek
2019-11-19 15:58                                         ` Qian Cai
2019-11-20  1:30                                         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-20 16:13                                           ` Petr Mladek
2019-11-21  1:05                                             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-21  9:15                                               ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-04  7:00                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04  8:25                     ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 11:59                       ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04 12:07                         ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 12:28                           ` Qian Cai
2019-09-07 11:00                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-04  6:15               ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-02 14:24     ` Vlastimil Babka

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