Re: [PATCH 28/28] mm, page_alloc: Defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 05/17/2016 08:41 AM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
>> @@ -2579,20 +2612,22 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
>>   		struct list_head *list;
>>   
>>   		local_irq_save(flags);
>> -		pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
>> -		list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
>> -		if (list_empty(list)) {
>> -			pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
>> -					pcp->batch, list,
>> -					migratetype, cold);
>> -			if (unlikely(list_empty(list)))
>> -				goto failed;
>> -		}
>> +		do {
>> +			pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
>> +			list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
>> +			if (list_empty(list)) {
>> +				pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
>> +						pcp->batch, list,
>> +						migratetype, cold);
>> +				if (unlikely(list_empty(list)))
>> +					goto failed;
>> +			}
>>   
>> -		if (cold)
>> -			page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
>> -		else
>> -			page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
>> +			if (cold)
>> +				page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
>> +			else
>> +				page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
>> +		} while (page && check_new_pcp(page));
> 
> This causes infinite loop when check_new_pcp() returns 1, because the bad
> page is still in the list (I assume that a bad page never disappears).
> The original kernel is free from this problem because we do retry after
> list_del(). So moving the following 3 lines into this do-while block solves
> the problem?
> 
>      __dec_zone_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH);
>      list_del(&page->lru);
>      pcp->count--;
> 
> There seems no infinit loop issue in order > 0 block below, because bad pages
> are deleted from free list in __rmqueue_smallest().

Ooops, thanks for catching this, wish it was sooner...

----8<----
>From f52f5e2a7dd65f2814183d8fd254ace43120b828 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 09:41:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: prevent infinite loop in buffered_rmqueue()

In DEBUG_VM kernel, we can hit infinite loop for order == 0 in
buffered_rmqueue() when check_new_pcp() returns 1, because the bad page is
never removed from the pcp list. Fix this by removing the page before retrying.
Also we don't need to check if page is non-NULL, because we simply grab it from
the list which was just tested for being non-empty.

Fixes: http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-freed-pages-until-a-pcp-drain.patch
Reported-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8c81e2e7b172..d5b93e5dd697 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2641,11 +2641,12 @@ struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 				page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
 			else
 				page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
-		} while (page && check_new_pcp(page));
 
-		__dec_zone_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH);
-		list_del(&page->lru);
-		pcp->count--;
+			__dec_zone_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH);
+			list_del(&page->lru);
+			pcp->count--;
+
+		} while (check_new_pcp(page));
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
-- 
2.8.2