From: "yuwang.yuwang" <yuwang.yuwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I found a softlockup when running some stress testcase in 4.9.x, but i think the mainline have the same problem. call trace: [365724.502896] NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#31 stuck for 22s! [jbd2/sda3-8:1164] ... ... [365724.503258] Call Trace: [365724.503260] [<ffffffff811ace5f>] warn_alloc+0x13f/0x170 [365724.503264] [<ffffffff811ad8c2>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9b2/0xc10 [365724.503265] [<ffffffff811add43>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x223/0x2a0 [365724.503268] [<ffffffff811fe838>] alloc_pages_current+0x88/0x120 [365724.503270] [<ffffffff811a3644>] __page_cache_alloc+0xb4/0xc0 [365724.503272] [<ffffffff811a49e9>] pagecache_get_page+0x59/0x230 [365724.503275] [<ffffffff8126b2db>] __getblk_gfp+0xfb/0x2f0 [365724.503281] [<ffffffffa00f9cee>] jbd2_journal_get_descriptor_buffer+0x5e/0xe0 [jbd2] [365724.503286] [<ffffffffa00f2a01>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x901/0x1880 [jbd2] [365724.503291] [<ffffffff8102d6a5>] ? __switch_to+0x215/0x730 [365724.503294] [<ffffffff810f962d>] ? lock_timer_base+0x7d/0xa0 [365724.503298] [<ffffffffa00f7cda>] kjournald2+0xca/0x260 [jbd2] [365724.503300] [<ffffffff810cfb00>] ? prepare_to_wait_event+0xf0/0xf0 [365724.503304] [<ffffffffa00f7c10>] ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10 [jbd2] [365724.503307] [<ffffffff810a8d66>] kthread+0xe6/0x100 [365724.503309] [<ffffffff810a8c80>] ? kthread_park+0x60/0x60 [365724.503313] [<ffffffff816f3795>] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30 we can limit the warn_alloc caller to workaround it. __alloc_pages_slowpath only call once warn_alloc each time. Signed-off-by: yuwang.yuwang <yuwang.yuwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 2abf8d5..8b86686 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3525,6 +3525,7 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask) unsigned long alloc_start = jiffies; unsigned int stall_timeout = 10 * HZ; unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie; + static unsigned long stall_warn_lock; /* * In the slowpath, we sanity check order to avoid ever trying to @@ -3698,11 +3699,13 @@ bool gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(gfp_t gfp_mask) goto nopage; /* Make sure we know about allocations which stall for too long */ - if (time_after(jiffies, alloc_start + stall_timeout)) { + if (time_after(jiffies, alloc_start + stall_timeout) && + !test_and_set_bit_lock(0, &stall_warn_lock)) { warn_alloc(gfp_mask, "page allocation stalls for %ums, order:%u", jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies-alloc_start), order); - stall_timeout += 10 * HZ; + stall_timeout = jiffies - alloc_start + 10 * HZ; + clear_bit_unlock(0, &stall_warn_lock); } if (should_reclaim_retry(gfp_mask, order, ac, alloc_flags, -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>