From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmalloc: add cond_resched() in __vunmap()
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 16:23:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210624142339.GA2267@pc638.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNR4ZkwF+Bh11XMC@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:21:21PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 22-06-21 18:50:30, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> > On non-preemptible kernel builds the watchdog can complain
> > about soft lockups when vfree() is called against large
> > vmalloc areas:
> >
> > [ 210.851798] kvmalloc-test: vmalloc(2199023255552) succeeded
> > [ 238.654842] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#181 stuck for 26s! [rmmod:5203]
> > [ 238.662716] Modules linked in: kvmalloc_test(OE-) ...
> > [ 238.772671] CPU: 181 PID: 5203 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G S OE 5.13.0-rc7+ #1
> > [ 238.781413] Hardware name: Intel Corporation PURLEY/PURLEY, BIOS PLYXCRB1.86B.0553.D01.1809190614 09/19/2018
> > [ 238.792383] RIP: 0010:free_unref_page+0x52/0x60
> > [ 238.797447] Code: 48 c1 fd 06 48 89 ee e8 9c d0 ff ff 84 c0 74 19 9c 41 5c fa 48 89 ee 48 89 df e8 b9 ea ff ff 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 5b <5d> 41 5c c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f0 29 77
> > [ 238.818406] RSP: 0018:ffffb4d87868fe98 EFLAGS: 00000206
> > [ 238.824236] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000001da0c945 RCX: ffffb4d87868fe40
> > [ 238.832200] RDX: ffffd79d3beed108 RSI: ffffd7998501dc08 RDI: ffff9c6fbffd7010
> > [ 238.840166] RBP: 000000000d518cbd R08: ffffd7998501dc08 R09: 0000000000000001
> > [ 238.848131] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffd79d3beee088 R12: 0000000000000202
> > [ 238.856095] R13: ffff9e5be3eceec0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> > [ 238.864059] FS: 00007fe082c2d740(0000) GS:ffff9f4c69b40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > [ 238.873089] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > [ 238.879503] CR2: 000055a000611128 CR3: 000000f6094f6006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
> > [ 238.887467] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> > [ 238.895433] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> > [ 238.903397] PKRU: 55555554
> > [ 238.906417] Call Trace:
> > [ 238.909149] __vunmap+0x17c/0x220
> > [ 238.912851] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x13a/0x250
> > [ 238.918008] ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.20+0x13c/0x1b0
> > [ 238.923746] do_syscall_64+0x39/0x80
> > [ 238.927740] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> >
> > Like in other range zapping routines that iterate over
> > a large list, lets just add cond_resched() within __vunmap()'s
> > page-releasing loop in order to avoid the watchdog splats.
>
> cond_resched makes a lot of sense. We do not want vmalloc to be visible
> the userspace (e.g. by stalling it) so all time consuming operations
> should yield regularly whenever possible. I would expect that any
> susbsystem which needs huge vmalloc areas would have it for the whole
> boot life time so such large vfrees should be really rare.
>
There is at least one more place with potentially similar issue. I see that
the bulk allocator disables irqs during obtaining pages and filling an array.
So i suspect if we request a huge size to allocate over vmalloc same soft
lockup should occur. For example 10G alloactions simultaneously on different
CPUs.
I will try to reproduce it on !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel and post feedback here.
--
Vlad Rezki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-24 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-22 22:50 [PATCH] mm: vmalloc: add cond_resched() in __vunmap() Rafael Aquini
2021-06-23 8:43 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-23 17:30 ` Rafael Aquini
2021-06-23 11:27 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2021-06-23 17:34 ` Rafael Aquini
2021-06-23 20:14 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2021-06-23 12:11 ` Aaron Tomlin
2021-06-24 12:21 ` Michal Hocko
2021-06-24 14:23 ` Uladzislau Rezki [this message]
2021-06-25 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2021-06-25 16:00 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2021-06-28 12:46 ` Michal Hocko
2021-06-28 16:40 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2021-06-29 14:11 ` Michal Hocko
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