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[37.188.174.201]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a7sm9803383edx.3.2020.06.16.02.27.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 16 Jun 2020 02:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:27:27 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Yafang Shao Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , "Darrick J. Wong" , Andrew Morton , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux MM Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xfs: avoid deadlock when trigger memory reclaim in ->writepages Message-ID: <20200616092727.GD9499@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1592222181-9832-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com> <20200616081628.GC9499@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Tue 16-06-20 17:05:25, Yafang Shao wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 4:16 PM Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > On Mon 15-06-20 07:56:21, Yafang Shao wrote: > > > Recently there is a XFS deadlock on our server with an old kernel. > > > This deadlock is caused by allocating memory in xfs_map_blocks() while > > > doing writeback on behalf of memroy reclaim. Although this deadlock happens > > > on an old kernel, I think it could happen on the upstream as well. This > > > issue only happens once and can't be reproduced, so I haven't tried to > > > reproduce it on upsteam kernel. > > > > > > Bellow is the call trace of this deadlock. > > > [480594.790087] INFO: task redis-server:16212 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > > [480594.790087] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > > > [480594.790088] redis-server D ffffffff8168bd60 0 16212 14347 0x00000004 > > > [480594.790090] ffff880da128f070 0000000000000082 ffff880f94a2eeb0 ffff880da128ffd8 > > > [480594.790092] ffff880da128ffd8 ffff880da128ffd8 ffff880f94a2eeb0 ffff88103f9d6c40 > > > [480594.790094] 0000000000000000 7fffffffffffffff ffff88207ffc0ee8 ffffffff8168bd60 > > > [480594.790096] Call Trace: > > > [480594.790101] [] schedule+0x29/0x70 > > > [480594.790103] [] schedule_timeout+0x239/0x2c0 > > > [480594.790111] [] io_schedule_timeout+0xae/0x130 > > > [480594.790114] [] io_schedule+0x18/0x20 > > > [480594.790116] [] bit_wait_io+0x11/0x50 > > > [480594.790118] [] __wait_on_bit+0x65/0x90 > > > [480594.790121] [] wait_on_page_bit+0x81/0xa0 > > > [480594.790125] [] shrink_page_list+0x6d2/0xaf0 > > > [480594.790130] [] shrink_inactive_list+0x223/0x710 > > > [480594.790135] [] shrink_lruvec+0x3b5/0x810 > > > [480594.790139] [] shrink_zone+0xba/0x1e0 > > > [480594.790141] [] do_try_to_free_pages+0x100/0x510 > > > [480594.790143] [] try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xdd/0x170 > > > [480594.790145] [] mem_cgroup_reclaim+0x4e/0x120 > > > [480594.790147] [] __mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x41c/0x670 > > > [480594.790153] [] __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge+0xf6/0x180 > > > [480594.790157] [] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x22d/0x420 > > > [480594.790162] [] alloc_pages_current+0xaa/0x170 > > > [480594.790165] [] new_slab+0x30c/0x320 > > > [480594.790168] [] ___slab_alloc+0x3ac/0x4f0 > > > [480594.790204] [] __slab_alloc+0x40/0x5c > > > [480594.790206] [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x193/0x1e0 > > > [480594.790233] [] kmem_zone_alloc+0x97/0x130 [xfs] > > > [480594.790247] [] _xfs_trans_alloc+0x3a/0xa0 [xfs] > > > [480594.790261] [] xfs_trans_alloc+0x3c/0x50 [xfs] > > > > Now with a more explanation from Dave I have got back to the original > > backtrace. Not sure which kernel version you are using but this path > > should have passed xfs_trans_reserve which sets PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS and > > this in turn should have made __alloc_pages_nodemask to use __GFP_NOFS > > and the memcg reclaim shouldn't ever wait_on_page_writeback (pressumably > > this is what the io_schedule is coming from). > > Hi Michal, > > The page is allocated before calling xfs_trans_reserve, so the > PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS hasn't been set yet. > See bellow, > > xfs_trans_alloc > kmem_zone_zalloc() <<< GPF_NOFS hasn't been set yet, but it may > trigger memory reclaim > xfs_trans_reserve() <<<< GPF_NOFS is set here (for the kernel > prior to commit 9070733b4efac, it is PF_FSTRANS) You are right, I have misread the actual allocation side. 8683edb7755b8 has added KM_NOFS and 73d30d48749f8 has removed it. I cannot really judge the correctness here. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs