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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4 v2] Define killable version for access_remote_vm() and use it in fs/proc
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:45:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180306124540.d8b5f6da97ab69a49566f950@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1519691151-101999-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:25:47 +0800 Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> 
> Background:
> When running vm-scalability with large memory (> 300GB), the below hung
> task issue happens occasionally.
> 
> INFO: task ps:14018 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>        Tainted: G            E 4.9.79-009.ali3000.alios7.x86_64 #1
>  "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
>  ps              D    0 14018      1 0x00000004
>   ffff885582f84000 ffff885e8682f000 ffff880972943000 ffff885ebf499bc0
>   ffff8828ee120000 ffffc900349bfca8 ffffffff817154d0 0000000000000040
>   00ffffff812f872a ffff885ebf499bc0 024000d000948300 ffff880972943000
>  Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff817154d0>] ? __schedule+0x250/0x730
>   [<ffffffff817159e6>] schedule+0x36/0x80
>   [<ffffffff81718560>] rwsem_down_read_failed+0xf0/0x150
>   [<ffffffff81390a28>] call_rwsem_down_read_failed+0x18/0x30
>   [<ffffffff81717db0>] down_read+0x20/0x40
>   [<ffffffff812b9439>] proc_pid_cmdline_read+0xd9/0x4e0
>   [<ffffffff81253c95>] ? do_filp_open+0xa5/0x100
>   [<ffffffff81241d87>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x150
>   [<ffffffff812f824b>] ? security_file_permission+0x9b/0xc0
>   [<ffffffff81242266>] vfs_read+0x96/0x130
>   [<ffffffff812437b5>] SyS_read+0x55/0xc0
>   [<ffffffff8171a6da>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xc5
> 
> When manipulating a large mapping, the process may hold the mmap_sem for
> long time, so reading /proc/<pid>/cmdline may be blocked in
> uninterruptible state for long time.
> We already have killable version APIs for semaphore, here use down_read_killable()
> to improve the responsiveness.
> 

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how this solves the
problem.  Yes, the read of /proc/pid/cmdline will be abandoned if
someone interrupts that process.  But if nobody does that, the read
will still just sit there for 2 minutes and the watchdog warning will
still come out?

Where the heck are we holding mmap_sem for so long?  Can that be fixed?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-06 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-27  0:25 [RFC PATCH 0/4 v2] Define killable version for access_remote_vm() and use it in fs/proc Yang Shi
2018-02-27  0:25 ` [PATCH 1/4 v2] mm: add access_remote_vm_killable APIs Yang Shi
2018-02-27  0:25 ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] fs: proc: use down_read_killable in proc_pid_cmdline_read() Yang Shi
2018-02-27  0:25 ` [PATCH 3/4 v2] fs: proc: use down_read_killable() in environ_read() Yang Shi
2018-02-27  7:15   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2018-02-27 16:59     ` Yang Shi
2018-02-27  0:25 ` [PATCH 4/4 v2] mm: use access_remote_vm() in get_cmdline() Yang Shi
2018-02-27  1:02 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4 v2] Define killable version for access_remote_vm() and use it in fs/proc David Rientjes
2018-02-27  1:25   ` Yang Shi
2018-02-27  1:47     ` David Rientjes
2018-03-01  0:17       ` Yang Shi
2018-03-06 18:45 ` Yang Shi
2018-03-06 20:45 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-03-06 21:17   ` Yang Shi
2018-03-06 21:41     ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-07  0:47       ` Yang Shi

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