Re: [PATCH v3] mm: fix tick timer stall during deferred page init

[Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>]

Hi, Pasha,

On 11.03.2020 20:45, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:39 AM Shile Zhang
> <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>>
>> When 'CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT' is set, 'pgdatinit' kthread will
>> initialise the deferred pages with local interrupts disabled. It is
>> introduced by commit 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while
>> initializing deferred pages").
>>
>> On machine with NCPUS <= 2, the 'pgdatinit' kthread could be bound to
>> the boot CPU, which could caused the tick timer long time stall, system
>> jiffies not be updated in time.
>>
>> The dmesg shown that:
>>
>>     [    0.197975] node 0 initialised, 32170688 pages in 1ms
>>
>> Obviously, 1ms is unreasonable.
>>
>> Now, fix it by restore in the pending interrupts for every 32*1204 pages
>> (128MB) initialized, give the chance to update the systemd jiffies.
>> The reasonable demsg shown likes:
>>
>>     [    1.069306] node 0 initialised, 32203456 pages in 894ms
> 
> Sorry for joining late to this thread. I wonder if we could use
> sched_clock() to print this statistics. Or not to print statistics at
> all?

This won't work for all cases since sched_clock() may fall back to jiffies-based
implementation, which gives wrong result, when interrupts are disabled.

And a bigger problem is not a statistics, but it's advancing jiffies. Some parallel
thread may expect jiffies are incrementing, and this will be a surprise for that
another component.

So, this fix is more about modularity and about not introduction a new corner case.

> ==============
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 3c4eb750a199..5958f599aced 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
>         const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
>         unsigned long spfn = 0, epfn = 0, nr_pages = 0;
>         unsigned long first_init_pfn, flags;
> -       unsigned long start = jiffies;
> +       unsigned long start = sched_clock();
>         struct zone *zone;
>         int zid;
>         u64 i;
> @@ -1817,8 +1817,8 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
>         /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */
>         WARN_ON(++zid < MAX_NR_ZONES && populated_zone(++zone));
> 
> -       pr_info("node %d initialised, %lu pages in %ums\n",
> -               pgdat->node_id, nr_pages, jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - start));
> +       pr_info("node %d initialised, %lu pages in %lldns\n",
> +               pgdat->node_id, nr_pages, sched_clock() - start);
> 
>         pgdat_init_report_one_done();
>         return 0;
> ==============
> 
> [    1.245331] node 0 initialised, 10256176 pages in 373565742ns
> 
> Pasha
> 
> 
> 
>> Fixes: 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages").
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>>  mm/page_alloc.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> index 3c4eb750a199..a3a47845e150 100644
>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>> @@ -1763,12 +1763,17 @@ deferred_init_maxorder(u64 *i, struct zone *zone, unsigned long *start_pfn,
>>         return nr_pages;
>>  }
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Release the pending interrupts for every TICK_PAGE_COUNT pages.
>> + */
>> +#define TICK_PAGE_COUNT        (32 * 1024)
>> +
>>  /* Initialise remaining memory on a node */
>>  static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
>>  {
>>         pg_data_t *pgdat = data;
>>         const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
>> -       unsigned long spfn = 0, epfn = 0, nr_pages = 0;
>> +       unsigned long spfn = 0, epfn = 0, nr_pages = 0, prev_nr_pages = 0;
>>         unsigned long first_init_pfn, flags;
>>         unsigned long start = jiffies;
>>         struct zone *zone;
>> @@ -1779,6 +1784,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
>>         if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
>>                 set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask);
>>
>> +again:
>>         pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
>>         first_init_pfn = pgdat->first_deferred_pfn;
>>         if (first_init_pfn == ULONG_MAX) {
>> @@ -1790,7 +1796,6 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
>>         /* Sanity check boundaries */
>>         BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn < pgdat->node_start_pfn);
>>         BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn > pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat));
>> -       pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
>>
>>         /* Only the highest zone is deferred so find it */
>>         for (zid = 0; zid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zid++) {
>> @@ -1809,9 +1814,23 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
>>          * that we can avoid introducing any issues with the buddy
>>          * allocator.
>>          */
>> -       while (spfn < epfn)
>> +       while (spfn < epfn) {
>>                 nr_pages += deferred_init_maxorder(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn);
>> +               /*
>> +                * Release the interrupts for every TICK_PAGE_COUNT pages
>> +                * (128MB) to give tick timer the chance to update the
>> +                * system jiffies.
>> +                */
>> +               if ((nr_pages - prev_nr_pages) > TICK_PAGE_COUNT) {
>> +                       prev_nr_pages = nr_pages;
>> +                       pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = spfn;
>> +                       pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
>> +                       goto again;
>> +               }
>> +       }
>> +
>>  zone_empty:
>> +       pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
>>         pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
>>
>>         /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */
>> --
>> 2.24.0.rc2
>>