I downloaded linux-5.13.2, configure and compile the kernel with CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y CONFIG_LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT=y CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y install the kernel on a qemu box, then run following C Program #include <stdlib.h> int main() { while(1) { malloc(1024*1024); } return 0; } And following is the dmesg: [ 96.155017] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 96.155030] WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 770 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:359 rcu_note_context_switch+0x91/0x610 [ 96.155074] Modules linked in: ppdev intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel bochs_drm aesni_intel drm_vram_helper evdev crypto_simd drm_ttm_helper snd_pcm cryptd ttm snd_timer parport_pc serio_raw drm_kms_helper sg snd parport soundcore drm pcspkr button ip_tables autofs4 psmouse sr_mod i2c_piix4 sd_mod crc32c_intel t10_pi cdrom i2c_core e1000 ata_generic floppy [ 96.155180] CPU: 10 PID: 770 Comm: containerd Not tainted 5.13.2 #1 [ 96.155185] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 [ 96.155189] RIP: 0010:rcu_note_context_switch+0x91/0x610 [ 96.155195] Code: ff 74 0f 65 8b 05 a7 10 e5 7e 85 c0 0f 84 22 01 00 00 45 84 ed 75 15 65 48 8b 04 25 80 7f 01 00 8b b0 44 03 00 00 85 f6 7e 02 <0f> 0b 65 48 8b 04 25 80 7f 01 00 8b 88 44 03 00 00 85 c9 7e 0f 41 [ 96.155200] RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a8bc50 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 96.155204] RAX: ffff88810830c300 RBX: ffff88813bcae680 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 96.155208] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000001 [ 96.155210] RBP: ffffc90000a8bcd0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 96.155213] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff81319b93 R12: ffff88810830c300 [ 96.155216] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88813bcad958 R15: 0000000000004970 [ 96.155220] FS: 00007fc09cff9700(0000) GS:ffff88813bc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 96.155223] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 96.155226] CR2: 00005594d2ff0530 CR3: 0000000103be4001 CR4: 0000000000060ee0 [ 96.155233] Call Trace: [ 96.155243] __schedule+0xda/0xa30 [ 96.155283] schedule+0x46/0xf0 [ 96.155289] io_schedule+0x12/0x40 [ 96.155295] __lock_page_or_retry+0x1f9/0x510 [ 96.155319] ? __page_cache_alloc+0x140/0x140 [ 96.155345] do_swap_page+0x33f/0x930 [ 96.155364] __handle_mm_fault+0xa54/0x1550 [ 96.155390] handle_mm_fault+0x17f/0x420 [ 96.155400] do_user_addr_fault+0x1be/0x770 [ 96.155422] exc_page_fault+0x69/0x280 [ 96.155435] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 [ 96.155443] asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 [ 96.155448] RIP: 0033:0x5594d15ec98f [ 96.155454] Code: 44 24 58 48 85 c0 48 b9 00 e4 0b 54 02 00 00 00 48 0f 44 c1 48 89 44 24 58 eb 05 48 8b 44 24 58 48 89 04 24 e8 e2 c9 9c ff 90 <48> 8b 05 9a 3b a0 01 48 8b 4c 24 50 48 89 0c 24 48 8d 15 9a c4 ec [ 96.155457] RSP: 002b:000000c0001f7f80 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 96.155462] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00005594d0f9cf55 RCX: fffffffffffffff8 [ 96.155465] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00005594d0fa2d01 [ 96.155467] RBP: 000000c0001f7fc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 96.155470] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000004 [ 96.155472] R13: 0000000000000013 R14: 00005594d1ee96e6 R15: 0000000000000039 [ 96.155495] irq event stamp: 10464 [ 96.155497] hardirqs last enabled at (10463): [<ffffffff81c0a574>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50 [ 96.155508] hardirqs last disabled at (10464): [<ffffffff81c01882>] __schedule+0x412/0xa30 [ 96.155512] softirqs last enabled at (8668): [<ffffffff82000401>] __do_softirq+0x401/0x51b [ 96.155517] softirqs last disabled at (8657): [<ffffffff81129c22>] irq_exit_rcu+0x142/0x150 [ 96.155531] ---[ end trace 165ff31fd86ffc12 ]--- [ 96.177669] ============================= [ 96.177693] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ] [ 96.177717] 5.13.2 #1 Tainted: G W [ 96.177743] ----------------------------- [ 96.177765] containerd/770 is trying to lock: [ 96.177790] ffff88813ba69b30 (&cache->alloc_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: get_swap_page+0x126/0x200 [ 96.177867] other info that might help us debug this: [ 96.177894] context-{4:4} [ 96.177910] 3 locks held by containerd/770: [ 96.177934] #0: ffff88810815ea28 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_user_addr_fault+0x115/0x770 [ 96.177999] #1: ffffffff82915020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: get_swap_device+0x33/0x140 [ 96.178057] #2: ffffffff82955ba0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30 [ 96.178115] stack backtrace: [ 96.178133] CPU: 1 PID: 770 Comm: containerd Tainted: G W 5.13.2 #1 [ 96.178183] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 [ 96.178254] Call Trace: [ 96.178274] dump_stack+0x82/0xa4 [ 96.178314] __lock_acquire+0x9a5/0x20a0 [ 96.178347] ? find_held_lock+0x3a/0xb0 [ 96.178381] lock_acquire+0xe9/0x320 [ 96.178405] ? get_swap_page+0x126/0x200 [ 96.178433] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x29/0x40 [ 96.178461] ? page_vma_mapped_walk+0x3a3/0x960 [ 96.178491] __mutex_lock+0x99/0x980 [ 96.178515] ? get_swap_page+0x126/0x200 [ 96.178541] ? find_held_lock+0x3a/0xb0 [ 96.178577] ? get_swap_page+0x126/0x200 [ 96.178603] ? page_referenced+0xd5/0x170 [ 96.178637] ? lock_release+0x1b4/0x300 [ 96.178663] ? get_swap_page+0x126/0x200 [ 96.178698] get_swap_page+0x126/0x200 [ 96.178725] add_to_swap+0x14/0x60 [ 96.178749] shrink_page_list+0xb13/0xe70 [ 96.178787] shrink_inactive_list+0x243/0x550 [ 96.178819] shrink_lruvec+0x4fd/0x780 [ 96.178849] ? shrink_node+0x257/0x7c0 [ 96.178873] shrink_node+0x257/0x7c0 [ 96.178900] do_try_to_free_pages+0xdd/0x410 [ 96.178929] try_to_free_pages+0x110/0x300 [ 96.178966] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.126+0x2ae/0xfa0 [ 96.179002] ? lock_release+0x1b4/0x300 [ 96.179028] __alloc_pages+0x37d/0x400 [ 96.179054] alloc_pages_vma+0x73/0x1d0 [ 96.179878] __read_swap_cache_async+0xb8/0x280 [ 96.180684] swap_cluster_readahead+0x194/0x270 [ 96.181459] ? swapin_readahead+0x62/0x530 [ 96.182008] swapin_readahead+0x62/0x530 [ 96.182558] ? find_held_lock+0x3a/0xb0 [ 96.183109] ? lookup_swap_cache+0x5c/0x1c0 [ 96.183657] ? lock_release+0x1b4/0x300 [ 96.184207] ? do_swap_page+0x232/0x930 [ 96.184753] do_swap_page+0x232/0x930 [ 96.185326] __handle_mm_fault+0xa54/0x1550 [ 96.185850] handle_mm_fault+0x17f/0x420 [ 96.186361] do_user_addr_fault+0x1be/0x770 [ 96.186880] exc_page_fault+0x69/0x280 [ 96.187382] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 [ 96.187879] asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 [ 96.188363] RIP: 0033:0x5594d0f78da4 [ 96.188829] Code: cc cc cc cc cc cc 48 8b 0d 39 d2 01 02 64 48 8b 09 48 3b 61 10 76 3d 48 83 ec 28 48 89 6c 24 20 48 8d 6c 24 20 48 8b 44 24 30 <48> 8b 08 48 89 0c 24 48 89 44 24 08 c6 44 24 10 01 e8 76 f4 ff ff [ 96.189894] RSP: 002b:000000c0001f7de8 EFLAGS: 00010216 [ 96.190406] RAX: 00005594d2308160 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000c0004ea480 [ 96.190902] RDX: 000000c0002a4270 RSI: 0000000000000010 RDI: 0000000000000011 [ 96.191394] RBP: 000000c0001f7e08 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000011 [ 96.191891] R10: 00005594d22f6ce0 R11: 00005594d1ee96e4 R12: ffffffffffffffff [ 96.192396] R13: 0000000000000028 R14: 0000000000000027 R15: 0000000000000200 [ 115.344546] exaust invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 [ 115.346019] CPU: 1 PID: 969 Comm: exaust Tainted: G W 5.13.2 #1 [ 115.346569] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 [ 115.347712] Call Trace: [ 115.348287] dump_stack+0x82/0xa4 [ 115.348867] dump_header+0x55/0x3f0 [ 115.349491] oom_kill_process+0x160/0x210 [ 115.350068] out_of_memory+0x10b/0x630 [ 115.350646] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.126+0xec7/0xfa0 [ 115.351255] __alloc_pages+0x37d/0x400 [ 115.351861] alloc_pages_vma+0x73/0x1d0 [ 115.352449] __handle_mm_fault+0xe1b/0x1550 [ 115.353042] handle_mm_fault+0x17f/0x420 [ 115.353646] do_user_addr_fault+0x1be/0x770 [ 115.354239] exc_page_fault+0x69/0x280 [ 115.354833] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 [ 115.355428] asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 [ 115.356021] RIP: 0033:0x7fe8ee633543 [ 115.356617] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at RIP 0x7fe8ee633519. [ 115.357245] RSP: 002b:00007fff742c68c8 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 115.357857] RAX: 00007fe798041010 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fe7980fd000 [ 115.358469] RDX: 00007fe798141000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007fe798041010 [ 115.359077] RBP: 00007fff742c68e0 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000 [ 115.359686] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000561abe3fa060 [ 115.360300] R13: 00007fff742c69c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 115.361313] Mem-Info: [ 115.362285] active_anon:188386 inactive_anon:764572 isolated_anon:64 active_file:61 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:2 slab_reclaimable:6676 slab_unreclaimable:6200 mapped:155 shmem:180 pagetables:3124 bounce:0 free:25647 free_pcp:0 free_cma:0 [ 115.366889] Node 0 active_anon:782092kB inactive_anon:3029744kB active_file:244kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):256kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:620kB dirty:0kB writeback:8kB shmem:720kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 0kB writeback_tmp:0kB kernel_stack:3904kB pagetables:12496kB all_unreclaimable? no [ 115.369378] Node 0 DMA free:15296kB min:260kB low:324kB high:388kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15992kB managed:15360kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB [ 115.372121] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2925 3874 3874 [ 115.373195] Node 0 DMA32 free:54436kB min:50824kB low:63528kB high:76232kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:819596kB inactive_anon:2135980kB active_file:48kB inactive_file:24kB unevictable:0kB writepending:8kB present:3129212kB managed:3021488kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB [ 115.375958] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 949 949 [ 115.377064] Node 0 Normal free:32856kB min:32880kB low:37004kB high:41128kB reserved_highatomic:0KB active_anon:2232kB inactive_anon:853384kB active_file:80kB inactive_file:76kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:1048576kB managed:972400kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB [ 115.380050] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [ 115.380908] Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB (U) 1*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 1*512kB (U) 0*1024kB 1*2048kB (M) 3*4096kB (M) = 15296kB [ 115.382728] Node 0 DMA32: 86*4kB (UM) 52*8kB (UME) 33*16kB (UM) 28*32kB (UME) 11*64kB (U) 2*128kB (UE) 0*256kB 1*512kB (U) 2*1024kB (UM) 2*2048kB (ME) 11*4096kB (M) = 54856kB [ 115.384560] Node 0 Normal: 597*4kB (UME) 904*8kB (UME) 414*16kB (UME) 187*32kB (UME) 64*64kB (UME) 19*128kB (UME) 3*256kB (U) 3*512kB (UE) 2*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 33108kB [ 115.386558] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=1048576kB [ 115.387543] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB [ 115.388503] 61467 total pagecache pages [ 115.389532] 61242 pages in swap cache [ 115.390450] Swap cache stats: add 523756, delete 462538, find 69/171 [ 115.391383] Free swap = 0kB [ 115.392312] Total swap = 2094076kB [ 115.393506] 1048445 pages RAM [ 115.394538] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly [ 115.395514] 46133 pages reserved [ 115.396525] 0 pages hwpoisoned [ 115.397824] Tasks state (memory values in pages): [ 115.398778] [ pid ] uid tgid total_vm rss pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name [ 115.399792] [ 312] 0 312 6603 217 98304 181 0 systemd-journal [ 115.400749] [ 339] 0 339 5562 1 69632 395 -1000 systemd-udevd [ 115.401869] [ 379] 101 379 23271 17 81920 197 0 systemd-timesyn [ 115.402873] [ 388] 107 388 1707 7 53248 101 0 rpcbind [ 115.403869] [ 479] 0 479 2373 39 53248 284 0 dhclient [ 115.404849] [ 485] 0 485 2120 8 53248 43 0 cron [ 115.406291] [ 487] 0 487 4869 44 77824 197 0 systemd-logind [ 115.407536] [ 494] 104 494 2247 58 57344 80 -900 dbus-daemon [ 115.408772] [ 501] 0 501 56457 0 86016 226 0 rsyslogd [ 115.410041] [ 503] 0 503 315093 769 311296 3943 0 containerd [ 115.411289] [ 507] 0 507 1404 2 45056 26 0 agetty [ 115.412563] [ 521] 0 521 27588 235 110592 1678 0 unattended-upgr [ 115.413834] [ 860] 0 860 3964 28 73728 187 -1000 sshd [ 115.415062] [ 866] 106 866 5015 19 81920 187 0 exim4 [ 115.416286] [ 901] 0 901 4233 1 73728 281 0 sshd [ 115.417534] [ 928] 0 928 5287 57 73728 280 0 systemd [ 115.418755] [ 929] 0 929 5710 77 90112 488 0 (sd-pam) [ 115.419921] [ 943] 0 943 2013 1 53248 407 0 bash [ 115.421061] [ 969] 0 969 1402762 888995 11276288 513120 0 exaust [ 115.421973] [ 970] 0 970 4233 272 77824 5 0 sshd [ 115.422840] [ 976] 0 976 1980 297 53248 64 0 bash [ 115.423664] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/user.slice/user-0.slice/session-1.scope,task=exaust,pid=969,uid=0 [ 115.425344] Out of memory: Killed process 969 (exaust) total-vm:5611048kB, anon-rss:3555976kB, file-rss:4kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:11012kB oom_score_adj:0 [ 115.912696] oom_reaper: reaped process 969 (exaust), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB I can tell from above that: [ 96.177999] #1: ffffffff82915020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: get_swap_device+0x33/0x140 get_swap_device did help the rcu_read_lock Thanks Zhouyi On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 8:23 PM Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On pondělí 19. července 2021 14:16:04 CEST Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 02:12:15PM +0200, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote: > > > On pondělí 19. července 2021 14:08:37 CEST Miaohe Lin wrote: > > > > On 2021/7/19 19:59, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote: > > > > > On pondělí 19. července 2021 13:50:07 CEST Miaohe Lin wrote: > > > > >> On 2021/7/19 19:22, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > >>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 07:12:58PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote: > > > > >>>> When in the commit 2799e77529c2a, we're using the percpu_ref to > > > > >>>> serialize > > > > >>>> against concurrent swapoff, i.e. there's percpu_ref inside > > > > >>>> get_swap_device() instead of rcu_read_lock(). Please see commit > > > > >>>> 63d8620ecf93 ("mm/swapfile: use percpu_ref to serialize against > > > > >>>> concurrent swapoff") for detail. > > > > >>> > > > > >>> Oh, so this is a backport problem. 2799e77529c2 was backported > > > > >>> without > > > > >>> its prerequisite 63d8620ecf93. Greg, probably best to just drop > > > > >> > > > > >> Yes, they're posted as a patch set: > > > > >> > > > > >> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210426123316.806267-1-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxx > > > > >> m > > > > >> > > > > >>> 2799e77529c2 from all stable trees; the race described is not very > > > > >>> important (swapoff vs reading a page back from that swap device). > > > > >>> . > > > > >> > > > > >> The swapoff races with reading a page back from that swap device > > > > >> should > > > > >> be > > > > >> really uncommon as most users only do swapoff when the system is > > > > >> going to > > > > >> shutdown. > > > > >> > > > > >> Sorry for the trouble! > > > > > > > > > > git log --oneline v5.13..v5.13.3 --author="Miaohe Lin" > > > > > 11ebc09e50dc mm/zswap.c: fix two bugs in zswap_writeback_entry() > > > > > 95d192da198d mm/z3fold: use release_z3fold_page_locked() to release > > > > > locked > > > > > z3fold page > > > > > ccb7848e2344 mm/z3fold: fix potential memory leak in > > > > > z3fold_destroy_pool() > > > > > 9f7229c901c1 mm/huge_memory.c: don't discard hugepage if other > > > > > processes > > > > > are mapping it > > > > > f13259175e4f mm/huge_memory.c: add missing read-only THP checking in > > > > > transparent_hugepage_enabled() > > > > > afafd371e7de mm/huge_memory.c: remove dedicated macro > > > > > HPAGE_CACHE_INDEX_MASK a533a21b692f mm/shmem: fix shmem_swapin() race > > > > > with swapoff > > > > > c3b39134bbd0 swap: fix do_swap_page() race with swapoff > > > > > > > > > > Do you suggest reverting "mm/shmem: fix shmem_swapin() race with > > > > > swapoff" > > > > > as well? > > > > > > > > This patch also rely on its prerequisite 63d8620ecf93. I think we should > > > > either revert any commit in this series or just backport the entire > > > > series. > > > > > > Then why not just pick up 2 more patches instead of dropping 2 patches. > > > Greg, could you please make sure the whole series from [1] gets pulled? > > > > Because none of these patches should have been backported in the first > > place. It's just not worth the destabilisation. > > What about the rest then? > > git log --oneline v5.13..v5.13.3 -- mm/ | wc -l > 18 > > Those look to be fixes, these ones too. > > -- > Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum) > >