From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stable tree <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: teach has_unmovable_pages about of LRU migrateable pages
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 22:23:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181105142308.GJ27491@MiWiFi-R3L-srv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181105123837.GH4361@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On 11/05/18 at 01:38pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 05-11-18 18:25:20, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Hi Michal,
> >
> > On 11/05/18 at 10:28am, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > >
> > > Or something like this. Ugly as hell, no question about that. I also
> > > have to think about this some more to convince myself this will not
> > > result in an endless loop under some situations.
> >
> > It failed. Paste the log and patch diff here, please help check if I made
> > any mistake on manual code change. The log is at bottom.
>
> The retry patch is obviously still racy, it just makes the race window
> slightly smaller and I hoped it would catch most of those races but this
> is obviously not the case.
>
> I was thinking about your MIGRATE_MOVABLE check some more and I still do
> not like it much, we just change migrate type at many places and I have
> hard time to actually see this is always safe wrt. to what we need here.
>
> We should be able to restore the zone type check though. The
> primary problem fixed by 15c30bc09085 ("mm, memory_hotplug: make
> has_unmovable_pages more robust") was that early allocations made it to
> the zone_movable range. If we add the check _after_ the PageReserved()
> check then we should be able to rule all bootmem allocation out.
>
> So what about the following (on top of the previous patch which makes
> sense on its own I believe).
Yes, I think this looks very reasonable and should be robust.
Have tested it, hot removing 4 hotpluggable nodes continusously
succeeds, and then hot adding them back, still works well.
So please feel free to add my Tested-by or Acked-by.
Tested-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
or
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Thanks, Michal.
>
>
> From d7ffd1342529c892f1de8999c3a5609211599c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:28:51 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: check zone_movable in has_unmovable_pages
>
> Page state checks are racy. Under a heavy memory workload (e.g. stress
> -m 200 -t 2h) it is quite easy to hit a race window when the page is
> allocated but its state is not fully populated yet. A debugging patch to
> dump the struct page state shows
> : [ 476.575516] has_unmovable_pages: pfn:0x10dfec00, found:0x1, count:0x0
> : [ 476.582103] page:ffffea0437fb0000 count:1 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff880e05239841 index:0x7f26e5000 compound_mapcount: 1
> : [ 476.592645] flags: 0x5fffffc0090034(uptodate|lru|active|head|swapbacked)
>
> Note that the state has been checked for both PageLRU and PageSwapBacked
> already. Closing this race completely would require some sort of retry
> logic. This can be tricky and error prone (think of potential endless
> or long taking loops).
>
> Workaround this problem for movable zones at least. Such a zone should
> only contain movable pages. 15c30bc09085 ("mm, memory_hotplug: make
> has_unmovable_pages more robust") has told us that this is not strictly
> true though. Bootmem pages should be marked reserved though so we can
> move the original check after the PageReserved check. Pages from other
> zones are still prone to races but we even do not pretend that memory
> hotremove works for those so pre-mature failure doesn't hurt that much.
>
> Reported-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 48ceda313332..5b64c5bc6ea0 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -7788,6 +7788,14 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int count,
> if (PageReserved(page))
> goto unmovable;
>
> + /*
> + * If the zone is movable and we have ruled out all reserved
> + * pages then it should be reasonably safe to assume the rest
> + * is movable.
> + */
> + if (zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_MOVABLE)
> + continue;
> +
> /*
> * Hugepages are not in LRU lists, but they're movable.
> * We need not scan over tail pages bacause we don't
> --
> 2.19.1
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-01 9:10 Memory hotplug failed to offline on bare metal system of multiple nodes Baoquan He
2018-11-01 9:22 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-01 9:42 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-01 9:58 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-02 15:55 ` [PATCH] mm, memory_hotplug: teach has_unmovable_pages about of LRU migrateable pages Michal Hocko
2018-11-05 0:20 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-05 9:14 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-05 9:26 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-05 9:35 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-05 9:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-05 9:45 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-05 10:25 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-05 12:38 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-05 14:23 ` Baoquan He [this message]
2018-11-05 17:10 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-06 0:22 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-06 8:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-06 9:16 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-06 9:36 ` Baoquan He
2018-11-06 9:51 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-06 10:00 ` Baoquan He
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