Hi Ying, On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:37:04PM -0700, Ying Han wrote: > We recently added the change in global background reclaim which counts the > return value of soft_limit reclaim. Now this patch adds the similar logic > on global direct reclaim. > > We should skip scanning global LRU on shrink_zone if soft_limit reclaim does > enough work. This is the first step where we start with counting the nr_scanned > and nr_reclaimed from soft_limit reclaim into global scan_control. > > The patch is based on mmotm-04-14 and i triggered kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:1058! Could you tell me exact patches? mmtom-04-14 + just 2 patch of this? or + something? These day, You and Kame produces many patches. Do I have to apply something of them? > > [ 938.242033] kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:1058! > [ 938.242033] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP· > [ 938.242033] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/device > [ 938.242033] Pid: 546, comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G W 2.6.39-smp-direct_reclaim > [ 938.242033] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810ed174>] [<ffffffff810ed174>] isolate_pages_global+0x18c/0x34f > [ 938.242033] RSP: 0018:ffff88082f83bb50 EFLAGS: 00010082 > [ 938.242033] RAX: 00000000ffffffea RBX: ffff88082f83bc90 RCX: 0000000000000401 > [ 938.242033] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffea001ca653e8 > [ 938.242033] RBP: ffff88082f83bc20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88085ffb6e00 > [ 938.242033] R10: ffff88085ffb73d0 R11: ffff88085ffb6e00 R12: ffff88085ffb6e00 > [ 938.242033] R13: ffffea001ca65410 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffea001ca653e8 > [ 938.242033] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88085fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > [ 938.242033] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b > [ 938.242033] CR2: 00007f5c3405c320 CR3: 0000000001803000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 > [ 938.242033] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > [ 938.242033] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > [ 938.242033] Process kswapd0 (pid: 546, threadinfo ffff88082f83a000, task ffff88082fe52080) > [ 938.242033] Stack: > [ 938.242033] ffff88085ffb6e00 ffffea0000000002 0000000000000021 0000000000000000 > [ 938.242033] 0000000000000000 ffff88082f83bcb8 ffffea00108eec80 ffffea00108eecb8 > [ 938.242033] ffffea00108eecf0 0000000000000004 fffffffffffffffc 0000000000000020 > [ 938.242033] Call Trace: > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810ee8a5>] shrink_inactive_list+0x185/0x418 > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810366cc>] ? __switch_to+0xea/0x212 > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810e8b35>] ? determine_dirtyable_memory+0x1a/0x2c > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810ef19b>] shrink_zone+0x380/0x44d > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810e5188>] ? zone_watermark_ok_safe+0xa1/0xae > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810efbd8>] kswapd+0x41b/0x76b > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810ef7bd>] ? zone_reclaim+0x2fb/0x2fb > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff81088569>] kthread+0x82/0x8a > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff8141b0d4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff810884e7>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x112/0x112 > [ 938.242033] [<ffffffff8141b0d0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb > It seems there is active page in inactive list. As I look deactivate_page, lru_deactivate_fn clears PageActive before add_page_to_lru_list and it should be protected by zone->lru_lock. In addiion, PageLRU would protect with race with isolation functions. Hmm, I don't have any clue now. Is it reproducible easily? Could you apply below debugging patch and report the result? diff --git a/include/linux/mm_inline.h b/include/linux/mm_inline.h index 8f7d247..f39b53a 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h +++ b/include/linux/mm_inline.h @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ static inline void __add_page_to_lru_list(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, enum lru_list l, struct list_head *head) { + VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page) && ( + l == LRU_INACTIVE_ANON || l == LRU_INACTIVE_FILE)); list_add(&page->lru, head); __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_LRU_BASE + l, hpage_nr_pages(page)); mem_cgroup_add_lru_list(page, l); diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c index a83ec5a..5f7c3c8 100644 --- a/mm/swap.c +++ b/mm/swap.c @@ -454,6 +454,8 @@ static void lru_deactivate_fn(struct page *page, void *arg) * The page's writeback ends up during pagevec * We moves tha page into tail of inactive. */ + VM_BUG_ON(PageActive(page) && ( + lru == LRU_INACTIVE_ANON || lru == LRU_INACTIVE_FILE)); list_move_tail(&page->lru, &zone->lru[lru].list); mem_cgroup_rotate_reclaimable_page(page); __count_vm_event(PGROTATED); diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index b3a569f..3415896 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file) /* Only take pages on the LRU. */ if (!PageLRU(page)) - return ret; + return 1; /* * When checking the active state, we need to be sure we are @@ -971,10 +971,10 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file) * of each. */ if (mode != ISOLATE_BOTH && (!PageActive(page) != !mode)) - return ret; + return 2; if (mode != ISOLATE_BOTH && page_is_file_cache(page) != file) - return ret; + return 3; /* * When this function is being called for lumpy reclaim, we @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file) * unevictable; only give shrink_page_list evictable pages. */ if (PageUnevictable(page)) - return ret; + return 4; ret = -EBUSY; @@ -1035,13 +1035,14 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan, unsigned long end_pfn; unsigned long page_pfn; int zone_id; + int ret; page = lru_to_page(src); prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, src, flags); VM_BUG_ON(!PageLRU(page)); - switch (__isolate_lru_page(page, mode, file)) { + switch (ret = __isolate_lru_page(page, mode, file)) { case 0: list_move(&page->lru, dst); mem_cgroup_del_lru(page); @@ -1055,6 +1056,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan, continue; default: + printk(KERN_ERR "ret %d\n", ret); BUG(); } > Thank you Minchan for the pointer. I reverted the following commit and I > haven't seen the problem with the same operation. I haven't looked deeply > on the patch yet, but figured it would be a good idea to post the dump. > The dump looks not directly related to this patchset, but ppl can use it to > reproduce the problem. I tested the patch with rsync + fadvise several times in my machine(2P, 2G DRAM) but I didn't have ever seen the BUG. But I didn't test it in memcg. As I look dump, it seems not related to memcg. Anyway, I tried it to reproduce it in my machine. Maybe I will start testing after next week. Sorry. I hope my debugging patch givse some clues. Thanks for the reporting, Ying. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>