From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751500AbdBWSqw (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:46:52 -0500 Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.110.215]:36896 "EHLO gum.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751099AbdBWSqh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:46:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:39:59 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner To: Laurent Dufour Cc: Michal Hocko , Vladimir Davydov , Balbir Singh , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/cgroup: avoid panic when init with low memory Message-ID: <20170223183959.GA6088@cmpxchg.org> References: <1487856999-16581-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1487856999-16581-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1487856999-16581-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote: > The system may panic when initialisation is done when almost all the > memory is assigned to the huge pages using the kernel command line > parameter hugepage=xxxx. Panic may occur like this: > > [ 0.082289] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000 > [ 0.082338] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000302b88 > [ 0.082377] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > [ 0.082408] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 [ 0.082424] NUMA > [ 0.082440] pSeries > [ 0.082457] Modules linked in: > [ 0.082490] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu > [ 0.082536] task: c00000021ed01600 task.stack: c00000010d108000 > [ 0.082575] NIP: c000000000302b88 LR: c000000000270e04 CTR: c00000000016cfd0 > [ 0.082621] REGS: c00000010d10b2c0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.9.0-15-generic) > [ 0.082666] MSR: 8000000002009033 [ 0.082770] CR: 28424422 XER: 00000000 > [ 0.082793] CFAR: c0000000003d28b8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1 > GPR00: c000000000270e04 c00000010d10b540 c00000000141a300 c00000010fff6300 > GPR04: 0000000000000000 00000000026012c0 c00000010d10b630 0000000487ab0000 > GPR08: 000000010ee90000 c000000001454fd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000000fb80000 00000000026012c0 00000000026012c0 > GPR16: 00000000026012c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 > GPR20: 000000000000000c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000024200c0 > GPR24: c0000000016eef48 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 00000000026012c0 > GPR28: 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 c00000010fff6300 c00000010d10b6d0 > NIP [c000000000302b88] mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim+0xf8/0x4f0 > [ 0.083456] LR [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450 > [ 0.083494] Call Trace: > [ 0.083511] [c00000010d10b540] [c00000010d10b640] 0xc00000010d10b640 (unreliable) > [ 0.083567] [c00000010d10b610] [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450 > [ 0.083622] [c00000010d10b6b0] [c000000000271198] try_to_free_pages+0xf8/0x270 > [ 0.083676] [c00000010d10b740] [c000000000259dd8] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7a8/0xff0 > [ 0.083729] [c00000010d10b960] [c0000000002dd274] new_slab+0x104/0x8e0 > [ 0.083776] [c00000010d10ba40] [c0000000002e03d0] ___slab_alloc+0x620/0x700 > [ 0.083822] [c00000010d10bb70] [c0000000002e04e4] __slab_alloc+0x34/0x60 > [ 0.083868] [c00000010d10bba0] [c0000000002e101c] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x310 > [ 0.083947] [c00000010d10bc00] [c000000000eb8120] mem_cgroup_init+0x158/0x1c8 > [ 0.083994] [c00000010d10bc40] [c00000000000dde8] do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0 > [ 0.084041] [c00000010d10bd00] [c000000000e84184] kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x360 > [ 0.084094] [c00000010d10bdc0] [c00000000000e714] kernel_init+0x24/0x170 > [ 0.084143] [c00000010d10be30] [c00000000000c0e8] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74 > [ 0.084195] Instruction dump: > [ 0.084220] eb81ffe0 eba1ffe8 ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 4e800020 3d230001 e9499a42 3d220004 > [ 0.084300] 3929acd8 794a1f24 7d295214 eac90100 2fa90000 419eff74 3b200000 > [ 0.084382] ---[ end trace 342f5208b00d01b6 ]--- > > This is a chicken and egg issue where the kernel try to get free > memory when allocating per node data in mem_cgroup_init(), but in that > path mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is called which assumes that > these data are allocated. > > As mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is best effort, it should return > when these data are not yet allocated. > > This patch also fixes potential null pointer access in > mem_cgroup_remove_from_trees() and mem_cgroup_update_tree(). > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour Acked-by: Johannes Weiner From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/cgroup: avoid panic when init with low memory Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:39:59 -0500 Message-ID: <20170223183959.GA6088@cmpxchg.org> References: <1487856999-16581-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1487856999-16581-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cmpxchg.org ; s=x; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject: Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=3zizhDkiWliW14jOPDvBPjF3sXw7fmIeT3tTV/Syyf4=; b=NHxWQhcrEKZpK8sgh56GaAE13R czmEgGL2eD2dnLOFTupPWGD/79DJXVrwfIJlJo59KuRmsdfWVMttt54/EZxXS3LKgysGlaO2C0WQR MEocIhOIG73AGtz+9AY/eTQRo0QgAx7MRR01ibrS90ZB+l3ItwAcAiXrIGhAXCyrgevc=; Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1487856999-16581-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Laurent Dufour Cc: Michal Hocko , Vladimir Davydov , Balbir Singh , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote: > The system may panic when initialisation is done when almost all the > memory is assigned to the huge pages using the kernel command line > parameter hugepage=xxxx. Panic may occur like this: > > [ 0.082289] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000 > [ 0.082338] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000302b88 > [ 0.082377] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] > [ 0.082408] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 [ 0.082424] NUMA > [ 0.082440] pSeries > [ 0.082457] Modules linked in: > [ 0.082490] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu > [ 0.082536] task: c00000021ed01600 task.stack: c00000010d108000 > [ 0.082575] NIP: c000000000302b88 LR: c000000000270e04 CTR: c00000000016cfd0 > [ 0.082621] REGS: c00000010d10b2c0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.9.0-15-generic) > [ 0.082666] MSR: 8000000002009033 [ 0.082770] CR: 28424422 XER: 00000000 > [ 0.082793] CFAR: c0000000003d28b8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1 > GPR00: c000000000270e04 c00000010d10b540 c00000000141a300 c00000010fff6300 > GPR04: 0000000000000000 00000000026012c0 c00000010d10b630 0000000487ab0000 > GPR08: 000000010ee90000 c000000001454fd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000000fb80000 00000000026012c0 00000000026012c0 > GPR16: 00000000026012c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 > GPR20: 000000000000000c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000024200c0 > GPR24: c0000000016eef48 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 00000000026012c0 > GPR28: 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 c00000010fff6300 c00000010d10b6d0 > NIP [c000000000302b88] mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim+0xf8/0x4f0 > [ 0.083456] LR [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450 > [ 0.083494] Call Trace: > [ 0.083511] [c00000010d10b540] [c00000010d10b640] 0xc00000010d10b640 (unreliable) > [ 0.083567] [c00000010d10b610] [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450 > [ 0.083622] [c00000010d10b6b0] [c000000000271198] try_to_free_pages+0xf8/0x270 > [ 0.083676] [c00000010d10b740] [c000000000259dd8] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7a8/0xff0 > [ 0.083729] [c00000010d10b960] [c0000000002dd274] new_slab+0x104/0x8e0 > [ 0.083776] [c00000010d10ba40] [c0000000002e03d0] ___slab_alloc+0x620/0x700 > [ 0.083822] [c00000010d10bb70] [c0000000002e04e4] __slab_alloc+0x34/0x60 > [ 0.083868] [c00000010d10bba0] [c0000000002e101c] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x310 > [ 0.083947] [c00000010d10bc00] [c000000000eb8120] mem_cgroup_init+0x158/0x1c8 > [ 0.083994] [c00000010d10bc40] [c00000000000dde8] do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0 > [ 0.084041] [c00000010d10bd00] [c000000000e84184] kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x360 > [ 0.084094] [c00000010d10bdc0] [c00000000000e714] kernel_init+0x24/0x170 > [ 0.084143] [c00000010d10be30] [c00000000000c0e8] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74 > [ 0.084195] Instruction dump: > [ 0.084220] eb81ffe0 eba1ffe8 ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 4e800020 3d230001 e9499a42 3d220004 > [ 0.084300] 3929acd8 794a1f24 7d295214 eac90100 2fa90000 419eff74 3b200000 > [ 0.084382] ---[ end trace 342f5208b00d01b6 ]--- > > This is a chicken and egg issue where the kernel try to get free > memory when allocating per node data in mem_cgroup_init(), but in that > path mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is called which assumes that > these data are allocated. > > As mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is best effort, it should return > when these data are not yet allocated. > > This patch also fixes potential null pointer access in > mem_cgroup_remove_from_trees() and mem_cgroup_update_tree(). > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour Acked-by: Johannes Weiner -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. 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