Re: [PATCH v2] virtio-balloon: fix managed page counts when migrating pages between zones

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On 05.12.19 10:24, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> In case we have to migrate a ballon page to a newpage of another zone, the
> managed page count of both zones is wrong. Paired with memory offlining
> (which will adjust the managed page count), we can trigger kernel crashes
> and all kinds of different symptoms.
> 
> One way to reproduce:
> 1. Start a QEMU guest with 4GB, no NUMA
> 2. Hotplug a 1GB DIMM and only the memory to ZONE_NORMAL

s/only/online/

as requested by Igor.

> 3. Inflate the balloon to 1GB
> 4. Unplug the DIMM (be quick, otherwise unmovable data ends up on it)
> 5. Observe /proc/zoneinfo
>   Node 0, zone   Normal
>     pages free     16810
>           min      24848885473806
>           low      18471592959183339
>           high     36918337032892872
>           spanned  262144
>           present  262144
>           managed  18446744073709533486
> 6. Do anything that requires some memory (e.g., inflate the balloon some
> more). The OOM goes crazy and the system crashes
>   [  238.324946] Out of memory: Killed process 537 (login) total-vm:27584kB, anon-rss:860kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:00
>   [  238.338585] systemd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
>   [  238.339420] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G      D W         5.4.0-next-20191204+ #75
>   [  238.340139] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu4
>   [  238.341121] Call Trace:
>   [  238.341337]  dump_stack+0x8f/0xd0
>   [  238.341630]  dump_header+0x61/0x5ea
>   [  238.341942]  oom_kill_process.cold+0xb/0x10
>   [  238.342299]  out_of_memory+0x24d/0x5a0
>   [  238.342625]  __alloc_pages_slowpath+0xd12/0x1020
>   [  238.343024]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x391/0x410
>   [  238.343407]  pagecache_get_page+0xc3/0x3a0
>   [  238.343757]  filemap_fault+0x804/0xc30
>   [  238.344083]  ? ext4_filemap_fault+0x28/0x42
>   [  238.344444]  ext4_filemap_fault+0x30/0x42
>   [  238.344789]  __do_fault+0x37/0x1a0
>   [  238.345087]  __handle_mm_fault+0x104d/0x1ab0
>   [  238.345450]  handle_mm_fault+0x169/0x360
>   [  238.345790]  do_user_addr_fault+0x20d/0x490
>   [  238.346154]  do_page_fault+0x31/0x210
>   [  238.346468]  async_page_fault+0x43/0x50
>   [  238.346797] RIP: 0033:0x7f47eba4197e
>   [  238.347110] Code: Bad RIP value.
>   [  238.347387] RSP: 002b:00007ffd7c0c1890 EFLAGS: 00010293
>   [  238.347834] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 000055d196a20a20 RCX: 00007f47eba4197e
>   [  238.348437] RDX: 0000000000000033 RSI: 00007ffd7c0c18c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
>   [  238.349047] RBP: 00007ffd7c0c1c20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000033
>   [  238.349660] R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000001
>   [  238.350261] R13: ffffffffffffffff R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007ffd7c0c18c0
>   [  238.350878] Mem-Info:
>   [  238.351085] active_anon:3121 inactive_anon:51 isolated_anon:0
>   [  238.351085]  active_file:12 inactive_file:7 isolated_file:0
>   [  238.351085]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
>   [  238.351085]  slab_reclaimable:5565 slab_unreclaimable:10170
>   [  238.351085]  mapped:3 shmem:111 pagetables:155 bounce:0
>   [  238.351085]  free:720717 free_pcp:2 free_cma:0
>   [  238.353757] Node 0 active_anon:12484kB inactive_anon:204kB active_file:48kB inactive_file:28kB unevictable:0kB iss
>   [  238.355979] Node 0 DMA free:11556kB min:36kB low:48kB high:60kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:152kB inactivB
>   [  238.358345] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2955 2884 2884 2884
>   [  238.358761] Node 0 DMA32 free:2677864kB min:7004kB low:10028kB high:13052kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0B
>   [  238.361202] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 72057594037927865 72057594037927865 72057594037927865
>   [  238.361888] Node 0 Normal free:193448kB min:99395541895224kB low:73886371836733356kB high:147673348131571488kB reB
>   [  238.364765] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 0
>   [  238.365101] Node 0 DMA: 7*4kB (U) 5*8kB (UE) 6*16kB (UME) 2*32kB (UM) 1*64kB (U) 2*128kB (UE) 3*256kB (UME) 2*512B
>   [  238.366379] Node 0 DMA32: 0*4kB 1*8kB (U) 2*16kB (UM) 2*32kB (UM) 2*64kB (UM) 1*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 1*512kB (U)B
>   [  238.367654] Node 0 Normal: 1985*4kB (UME) 1321*8kB (UME) 844*16kB (UME) 524*32kB (UME) 300*64kB (UME) 138*128kB (B
>   [  238.369184] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
>   [  238.369915] 130 total pagecache pages
>   [  238.370241] 0 pages in swap cache
>   [  238.370533] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
>   [  238.370981] Free swap  = 0kB
>   [  238.371239] Total swap = 0kB
>   [  238.371488] 1048445 pages RAM
>   [  238.371756] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
>   [  238.372090] 306992 pages reserved
>   [  238.372376] 0 pages cma reserved
>   [  238.372661] 0 pages hwpoisoned
> 
> In another instance (older kernel), I was able to observe this
> (negative page count :/):
>   [  180.896971] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  182.667462] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  184.408117] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  186.026321] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  187.684861] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  189.227013] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  190.830303] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  190.833071] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: -36920272750453009
> 
> In another instance (older kernel), I was no longer able to start any
> process:
>   [root@vm ~]# [  214.348068] Offlined Pages 32768
>   [  215.973009] Offlined Pages 32768
>   cat /proc/meminfo
>   -bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
>   [root@vm ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
>   -bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> Fix it by properly adjusting the managed page count when migrating if
> the zone changed. The managed page count of the zones now looks after
> unplug of the DIMM (and after deflating the balloon) just like before
> inflating the balloon (and plugging+onlining the DIMM).
> 
> We'll temporarily modify the totalram page count. If this ever becomes a
> problem, we can fine tune by providing helpers that don't touch
> the totalram pages (e.g., adjust_zone_managed_page_count()).
> 
> Reported-by: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 3dcc0571cd64 ("mm: correctly update zone->managed_pages")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.11+
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - Adjust count before enquing newpage (and it possibly gets free form the
>   balloon)
> - Check if the zone changed
> 
> ---
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> index 15b7f1d8c334..3078e1ac2a8f 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
> @@ -722,6 +722,13 @@ static int virtballoon_migratepage(struct balloon_dev_info *vb_dev_info,
>  
>  	get_page(newpage); /* balloon reference */
>  
> +	/* fixup the managed page count (esp. of the zone) */

/*
 * When we migrate to a different zone, we have to adjust the managed
 * page count of both involved zones.
 */

as requested by Michael.


@Michael, if there are no further comments, shall I resend?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb





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