Thanks for reviewing
My machine has 128G of RAM, and runs many KVM virtual machines.
libvirtd always
report "internal error: received hangup / error event on socket" under
heavy memory load.
Then I use perf top -g, qlist_move_cache consumes 100% cpu for
several minutes.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> When there are huge amount of quarantined cache allocates in system,
>> number of entries in global_quarantine[i] will be great. Meanwhile,
>> there is no relax in while loop in function qlist_move_cache which
>> hold quarantine_lock. As a result, some userspace programs for example
>> libvirt will complain.
>
> Hi,
>
> The QUARANTINE_BATCHES thing was supposed to fix this problem, see
> quarantine_remove_cache() function.
> What is the amount of RAM and number of CPUs in your system?
> If system has 4GB of RAM, quarantine size is 128MB and that's split
> into 1024 batches. Batch size is 128KB. Even if that's filled with the
> smallest objects of size 32, that's only 4K objects. And there is a
> cond_resched() between processing of every batch.
> I don't understand why it causes problems in your setup. We use KASAN
> extremely heavily on hundreds of machines 24x7 and we have not seen
> any single report from this code...
>
>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:04 PM, <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> This patch fix livelock by conditionally release cpu to let others
>>> has a chance to run.
>>>
>>> Tested on x86_64.
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
>>> index 3a8ddf8..33eeff4 100644
>>> --- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
>>> +++ b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
>>> @@ -265,10 +265,13 @@ static void qlist_move_cache(struct qlist_head *from,
>>> struct kmem_cache *cache)
>>> {
>>> struct qlist_node *curr;
>>> + struct qlist_head tmp_head;
>>> + unsigned long flags;
>>>
>>> if (unlikely(qlist_empty(from)))
>>> return;
>>>
>>> + qlist_init(&tmp_head);
>>> curr = from->head;
>>> qlist_init(from);
>>> while (curr) {
>>> @@ -278,10 +281,17 @@ static void qlist_move_cache(struct qlist_head *from,
>>> if (obj_cache == cache)
>>> qlist_put(to, curr, obj_cache->size);
>>> else
>>> - qlist_put(from, curr, obj_cache->size);
>>> + qlist_put(&tmp_head, curr, obj_cache->size);
>>>
>>> curr = next;
>>> +
>>> + if (need_resched()) {
>>> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&quarantine_lock, flags);
>>> + cond_resched();
>>> + spin_lock_irqsave(&quarantine_lock, flags);
>>> + }
>>> }
>>> + qlist_move_all(&tmp_head, from);
>>> }
>>>
>>> static void per_cpu_remove_cache(void *arg)
>>> --
>>> 2.1.4
>>>
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