On Wed, 24 May 2017 16:47:28 +0100 Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On failing to migrate a page, soft_offline_huge_page() performs the
> necessary update to the hugepage ref-count. When
> !hugepage_migration_supported() , unmap_and_move_hugepage() also
> decrements the page ref-count for the hugepage. The combined behaviour
> leaves the ref-count in an inconsistent state.
>
> This leads to soft lockups when running the overcommitted hugepage test
> from mce-tests suite.
>
> Soft offlining pfn 0x83ed600 at process virtual address 0x400000000000
> soft offline: 0x83ed600: migration failed 1, type
> 1fffc00000008008 (uptodate|head)
> INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-7): P2715
> (detected by 7, t=5254 jiffies, g=963, c=962, q=321)
> thugetlb_overco R running task 0 2715 2685 0x00000008
> Call trace:
> [<ffff000008089f90>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x268
> [<ffff00000808a2d4>] show_stack+0x24/0x30
> [<ffff000008100d34>] sched_show_task+0x134/0x180
> [<ffff0000081c90fc>] rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp+0x54/0x7c
> [<ffff00000813cfd4>] rcu_check_callbacks+0xa74/0xb08
> [<ffff000008143a3c>] update_process_times+0x34/0x60
> [<ffff0000081550e8>] tick_sched_handle.isra.7+0x38/0x70
> [<ffff00000815516c>] tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0x98
> [<ffff0000081442e0>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc0/0x300
> [<ffff000008144fa4>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xac/0x228
> [<ffff0000089a56d4>] arch_timer_handler_phys+0x3c/0x50
> [<ffff00000812f1bc>] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x290
> [<ffff0000081297fc>] generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
> [<ffff000008129f00>] __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
> [<ffff0000080816b4>] gic_handle_irq+0x5c/0xb0
>
> Fix this by dropping the ref-count decrement in
> unmap_and_move_hugepage() when !hugepage_migration_supported().
>
> Fixes: 32665f2bbfed ("mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()")
> Reported-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
32665f2bbfed was three years ago. Do you have any theory as to why
this took so long to be detected? And do you believe a -stable
backport is warranted?
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