While stressing memory and IO at the same time we changed SMT settings,
we were able to consistently trigger deadlocks in the mm system, which
froze the entire machine.
I think that under memory stress conditions, the large allocations
performed by blk_mq_init_rq_map may trigger a reclaim, which stalls
waiting on the block layer remmaping completion, thus deadlocking the
system. The trace below was collected after the machine stalled,
waiting for the hotplug event completion.
The simplest fix for this is to make allocations in this path
non-reclaimable, with GFP_NOIO. With this patch, We couldn't hit the
issue anymore.
This should apply on top of Jen's for-next branch cleanly.
Changes since v1:
- Use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_NOWAIT.
Call Trace:
[c000000f0160aaf0] [c000000f0160ab50] 0xc000000f0160ab50 (unreliable)
[c000000f0160acc0] [c000000000016624] __switch_to+0x2e4/0x430
[c000000f0160ad20] [c000000000b1a880] __schedule+0x310/0x9b0
[c000000f0160ae00] [c000000000b1af68] schedule+0x48/0xc0
[c000000f0160ae30] [c000000000b1b4b0] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x20/0x30
[c000000f0160ae50] [c000000000b1d4fc] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xec/0x1f0
[c000000f0160aed0] [c000000000b1d678] mutex_lock+0x78/0xa0
[c000000f0160af00] [d000000019413cac] xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag+0x33c/0x380 [xfs]
[c000000f0160b0b0] [d000000019415164] xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr+0x54/0x70 [xfs]
[c000000f0160b0f0] [d0000000194297f8] xfs_fs_free_cached_objects+0x38/0x60 [xfs]
[c000000f0160b120] [c0000000003172c8] super_cache_scan+0x1f8/0x210
[c000000f0160b190] [c00000000026301c] shrink_slab.part.13+0x21c/0x4c0
[c000000f0160b2d0] [c000000000268088] shrink_zone+0x2d8/0x3c0
[c000000f0160b380] [c00000000026834c] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x520
[c000000f0160b450] [c00000000026876c] try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x250
[c000000f0160b4e0] [c000000000251978] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x868/0x10d0
[c000000f0160b6f0] [c000000000567030] blk_mq_init_rq_map+0x160/0x380
[c000000f0160b7a0] [c00000000056758c] blk_mq_map_swqueue+0x33c/0x360
[c000000f0160b820] [c000000000567904] blk_mq_queue_reinit+0x64/0xb0
[c000000f0160b850] [c00000000056a16c] blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify+0x19c/0x250
[c000000f0160b8a0] [c0000000000f5d38] notifier_call_chain+0x98/0x100
[c000000f0160b8f0] [c0000000000c5fb0] __cpu_notify+0x70/0xe0
[c000000f0160b930] [c0000000000c63c4] notify_prepare+0x44/0xb0
[c000000f0160b9b0] [c0000000000c52f4] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x84/0x250
[c000000f0160ba10] [c0000000000c570c] cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x5c/0x120
[c000000f0160ba60] [c0000000000c7cb8] _cpu_up+0xf8/0x1d0
[c000000f0160bac0] [c0000000000c7eb0] do_cpu_up+0x120/0x150
[c000000f0160bb40] [c0000000006fe024] cpu_subsys_online+0x64/0xe0
[c000000f0160bb90] [c0000000006f5124] device_online+0xb4/0x120
[c000000f0160bbd0] [c0000000006f5244] online_store+0xb4/0xc0
[c000000f0160bc20] [c0000000006f0a68] dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0
[c000000f0160bc60] [c0000000003ccc30] sysfs_kf_write+0x80/0xb0
[c000000f0160bca0] [c0000000003cbabc] kernfs_fop_write+0x17c/0x250
[c000000f0160bcf0] [c00000000030fe6c] __vfs_write+0x6c/0x1e0
[c000000f0160bd90] [c000000000311490] vfs_write+0xd0/0x270
[c000000f0160bde0] [c0000000003131fc] SyS_write+0x6c/0x110
[c000000f0160be30] [c000000000009204] system_call+0x38/0xec
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Douglas Miller <dougmill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
block/blk-mq.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 6718f894fbe1..5f4e452eef72 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags *blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tags->page_list);
tags->rqs = kzalloc_node(set->queue_depth * sizeof(struct request *),
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY,
+ GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY,
set->numa_node);
if (!tags->rqs) {
blk_mq_free_tags(tags);
@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags *blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
do {
page = alloc_pages_node(set->numa_node,
- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ZERO,
+ GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_ZERO,
this_order);
if (page)
break;
@@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags *blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set,
* Allow kmemleak to scan these pages as they contain pointers
* to additional allocations like via ops->init_request().
*/
- kmemleak_alloc(p, order_to_size(this_order), 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ kmemleak_alloc(p, order_to_size(this_order), 1, GFP_NOIO);
entries_per_page = order_to_size(this_order) / rq_size;
to_do = min(entries_per_page, set->queue_depth - i);
left -= to_do * rq_size;
--
2.7.4
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