From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Boris Zhmurov <bb@kernelpanic.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>,
Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node`
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 11:39:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161201193907.GR3924@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e50dcb85-4552-9249-c53e-017fefcaf80b@kernelpanic.ru>
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:10:01PM +0300, Boris Zhmurov wrote:
> Michal Hocko 30/11/16 21:25:
>
> >>> Do I get it right that s@cond_resched_rcu_qs@cond_resched@ didn't help?
> >>
> >> I didn't try that. I've tried 4 patches from Paul's linux-rcu tree.
> >> I can try another portion of patches, no problem :)
> >
> > Replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched would
> > be really helpful to tell whether we are missing a real scheduling point
> > or whether something more serious is going on here.
>
> Well, I can confirm, that replacing cond_resched_rcu_qs in
> shrink_node_memcg by cond_resched also makes dmesg clean from RCU CPU
> stall warnings.
>
> I've attached patch (just modification of Paul's patch), that fixes RCU
> stall messages in situations, when all memory is used by
> couchbase/memcached + fs cache and linux starts to use swap.
>
>
> --
> Boris Zhmurov
> System/Network Administrator
> mailto: bb@kernelpanic.ru
> "wget http://kernelpanic.ru/bb_public_key.pgp -O - | gpg --import"
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c.orig 2016-11-30 21:52:58.314895320 +0300
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c 2016-11-30 21:53:29.502895320 +0300
> @@ -2352,6 +2352,7 @@
> nr_reclaimed += shrink_list(lru, nr_to_scan,
> lruvec, sc);
> }
> + cond_resched();
> }
>
> if (nr_reclaimed < nr_to_reclaim || scan_adjusted)
Nice!
Just to double-check, could you please also test your patch above with
these two commits from -rcu?
d2db185bfee8 ("rcu: Remove short-term CPU kicking")
f8f127e738e3 ("rcu: Add long-term CPU kicking")
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-01 19:39 UTC|newest]
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2016-12-01 18:10 ` INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks with `kswapd` and `mem_cgroup_shrink_node` Boris Zhmurov
2016-12-01 19:39 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2016-12-02 9:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-02 13:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 16:39 ` Boris Zhmurov
2016-12-02 16:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-02 17:02 ` Michal Hocko
2016-12-02 17:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
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2016-11-08 12:22 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-08 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-08 17:38 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-08 18:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-16 17:01 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-16 17:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-21 13:41 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-21 14:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-21 14:18 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-21 14:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-21 15:35 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-24 10:15 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-24 18:50 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-27 9:37 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-27 5:32 ` Christopher S. Aker
2016-11-27 9:19 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-28 11:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-28 12:26 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-30 10:28 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-30 11:09 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 11:43 ` Donald Buczek
2016-12-02 9:14 ` Donald Buczek
2016-12-06 8:32 ` Donald Buczek
2016-11-30 11:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 11:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 12:31 ` Paul Menzel
2016-11-30 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 13:19 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 14:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-30 17:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 17:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-30 17:34 ` Michal Hocko
2016-11-30 17:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-30 19:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 5:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 12:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 16:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 18:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-01 18:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-12-01 18:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
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