On Thu 2021-05-20 12:20 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 5/20/21 6:34 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > What observed problems motivated this change?
> > 
> > What were the observed runtime effects of this change?
> 
> Yep those details from the previous thread should be included here.

Fair enough.

During kernel crash dump/or vmcore analysis: I discovered in the context of
__alloc_pages_slowpath() the value stored in the no_progress_loops variable
was found to be 31,611,688 i.e. well above MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES; and a fatal
signal was pending against current.


     #6 [ffff00002e78f7c0] do_try_to_free_pages+0xe4 at ffff00001028bd24
     #7 [ffff00002e78f840] try_to_free_pages+0xe4 at ffff00001028c0f4
     #8 [ffff00002e78f900] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x500 at ffff0000102cd130

                                                             //      w28 = *(sp + 148)      /* no_progress_loops */
     0xffff0000102cd1e0 <__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5b0>:      ldr     w0, [sp,#148]
                                                             //      w0 = w0 + 0x1
     0xffff0000102cd1e4 <__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5b4>:      add     w0, w0, #0x1
                                                             //      *(sp + 148) = w0
     0xffff0000102cd1e8 <__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5b8>:      str     w0, [sp,#148]
                                                             //      if (w0 >= 0x10)
                                                             //          goto __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x904
     0xffff0000102cd1ec <__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5bc>:      cmp     w0, #0x10
     0xffff0000102cd1f0 <__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5c0>:      b.gt    0xffff0000102cd534

 - The stack pointer was 0xffff00002e78f900

     crash> p *(int *)(0xffff00002e78f900+148)
     $1 = 31611688

     crash> ps 521171
        PID    PPID  CPU       TASK        ST  %MEM     VSZ    RSS  COMM
     > 521171      1  36  ffff8080e2128800  RU   0.0 34789440  18624  special

     crash> p &((struct task_struct *)0xffff8080e2128800)->signal.shared_pending
     $2 = (struct sigpending *) 0xffff80809a416e40

     crash> p ((struct sigpending *)0xffff80809a416e40)->signal.sig[0]
     $3 = 0x804100

     crash> sig -s 0x804100
     SIGKILL SIGTERM SIGXCPU

     crash> p ((struct sigpending *)0xffff80809a416e40)->signal.sig[0] & 1U << (9 - 1)
     $4 = 0x100


Unfortunately, this incident was not reproduced, to date.





Kind regards,

-- 
Aaron Tomlin