yeah, now the picture becomes more clear
...
net.core.warnings = 0 [ ok ]
ick: pause : -717
ick : min_pause : -177
ick : max_pause : -717
ick: pages_dirtied : 14
ick: task_ratelimit: 0
On 10/11/2013 03:16 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:49:30PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> On 10/10/2013 12:33 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> Am 09.10.2013 23:47, schrieb Jan Kara:
>>>> On Wed 09-10-13 20:43:50, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>> CC'ing mm folks.
>>>>> Please see below.
>>>> Added Fenguang to CC since he is the author of this code.
>>>
>>> Thx, get_maintainer.pl didn't list him.
>>>
>>>>> Am 09.10.2013 19:26, schrieb Toralf Förster:
>>>>>> On 10/08/2013 10:07 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hmm, now pages_dirtied is zero, according to the backtrace, but the BUG_ON()
>>>>>>>>> asserts its strict positive?!?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Can you please try the following instead of the BUG_ON():
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> if (pause < 0) {
>>>>>>>>> printk("pages_dirtied = %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
>>>>>>>>> printk("task_ratelimit = %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
>>>>>>>>> printk("pause = %ld\n", pause);
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Geert
>>>>>>>> I tried it in different ways already - I'm completely unsuccessful in getting any printk output.
>>>>>>>> As soon as the issue happens I do have a
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> at stderr of the UML and then no further input is accepted. With uml_mconsole I'm however able
>>>>>>>> to run very basic commands like a crash dump, sysrq ond so on.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You may get an idea of the magnitude of pages_dirtied by using a chain of
>>>>>>> BUG_ON()s, like:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
>>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000);
>>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 100000000);
>>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 10000000);
>>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000);
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Probably 1 million is already too much for normal operation?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
>>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000); <-------------- this is line 1467
>>>>>
>>>>> Summary for mm people:
>>>>>
>>>>> Toralf runs trinty on UML/i386.
>>>>> After some time pages_dirtied becomes very large.
>>>>> More than 1000000000 pages in this case.
>>>> Huh, this is really strange. pages_dirtied is passed into
>>>> balance_dirty_pages() from current->nr_dirtied. So I wonder how a value
>>>> over 10^9 can get there. After all that is over 4TB so I somewhat doubt the
>>>> task was ever able to dirty that much during its lifetime (but correct me
>>>> if I'm wrong here, with UML and memory backed disks it is not totally
>>>> impossible)... I went through the logic of handling ->nr_dirtied but
>>>> I didn't find any obvious problem there. Hum, maybe one thing - what
>>>> 'task_ratelimit' values do you see in balance_dirty_pages? If that one was
>>>> huge, we could possibly accumulate huge current->nr_dirtied.
>>>
>>> Toralf, you can try a snipplet like this one to get the values printed out:
>>> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
>>> index f5236f8..a80e520 100644
>>> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
>>> @@ -1463,6 +1463,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
>>> goto pause;
>>> }
>>> period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
>>> +
>>> + {
>>> + extern int printf(char *, ...);
>>> + printf("---> task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> pause = period;
>>> if (current->dirty_paused_when)
>>> pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when;
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, printf(), not printk().
>>> Using this hack we print directly to host's stdout. :)
>>>
>> *head smack* ofc - works fine.
>> So given this diff :
>>
>> iff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> index f5236f8..5a2c337 100644
>> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
>> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> @@ -1464,6 +1464,13 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
>> }
>> period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
>> pause = period;
>> + if (pause < 0) {
>> + extern int printf(char *, ...);
>> + printf("overflow : pause : %li\n", pause);
>> + printf("overflow : pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
>> + printf("overflow : task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
>> + BUG_ON(1);
>> + }
>> if (current->dirty_paused_when)
>> pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when;
>> /*
>> @@ -1503,6 +1510,13 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
>> }
>>
>> pause:
>> + if (pause < 0) {
>
> Oops, we got
>
> ick : pause : -984
>
> here! Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause], it means
> something goes wrong with the bounds. Would you help print min_pause
> and max_pause as well?
>
> It seems there are "long <=> unsigned long" conversion problems in
> bdi_max_pause(), which might make max_pause a negative number. And the
> min_pause calculation is based on max_pause to some degree..
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
>
>> + extern int printf(char *, ...);
>> + printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
>> + printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
>> + printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
>> + BUG_ON(1);
>> + }
>> trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
>> dirty_thresh,
>> background_thresh,
>>
>>
>> I got this :
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> * Starting local
>> net.core.warnings = 0 [ ok ]
>> ick : pause : -984
>> ick: pages_dirtied : 0
>> ick: task_ratelimit: 0
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!
>> CPU: 0 PID: 1434 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc4-00029-g0e7a3ed-dirty #12
>> 47397c84 47397cb0 0841b5a0 084c30e8 085f76e0 084b4745 47397cbc 00000000
>> fffffc28 01fff278 085cb4a0 47397d2c 0841c5a0 084b4745 084c5398 000005ee
>> 08432cf0 43e47600 471757f8 47397cf0 ffffff0c 47397cdc 5256d8b9 3417ec18 47397c5c: [<08060b2c>] show_stack+0x7c/0xd0
>> 47397c7c: [<0841e34d>] dump_stack+0x26/0x28
>> 47397c8c: [<0841b5a0>] panic+0x7a/0x180
>> 47397cb4: [<0841c5a0>] balance_dirty_pages.isra.32+0x4e3/0x5ad
>> 47397d30: [<080d3595>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0xf5/0x100
>> 47397d44: [<080e4a3f>] __do_fault+0x3cf/0x440
>> 47397d9c: [<080e6e0f>] handle_mm_fault+0xef/0x7c0
>> 47397dec: [<080e7817>] __get_user_pages+0x227/0x420
>> 47397e24: [<080e7ae3>] get_user_pages+0x63/0x70
>> 47397e4c: [<08143dc6>] SyS_io_setup+0x3c6/0x760
>> 47397eb0: [<08062984>] handle_syscall+0x64/0x80
>> 47397ef0: [<08074fb5>] userspace+0x475/0x5f0
>> 47397fec: [<0805f750>] fork_handler+0x60/0x70
>> 47397ffc: [<00000000>] 0x0
>>
>>
>> EIP: 0073:[<40001282>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:bfb348f8 EFLAGS: 00000246
>> Not tainted
>> EAX: ffffffda EBX: 00001000 ECX: 080d0000 EDX: 80000048
>> ESI: 80fbff1f EDI: ffe02f77 EBP: 90f6e2a3 DS: 007b ES: 007b
>> 47397c0c: [<0807947f>] show_regs+0x10f/0x120
>> 47397c28: [<080623a9>] panic_exit+0x29/0x50
>> 47397c38: [<0809ba86>] notifier_call_chain+0x36/0x60
>> 47397c60: [<0809bba1>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x21/0x30
>> 47397c70: [<0809bbdf>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2f/0x40
>> 47397c8c: [<0841b5bc>] panic+0x96/0x180
>> 47397cb4: [<0841c5a0>] balance_dirty_pages.isra.32+0x4e3/0x5ad
>> 47397d30: [<080d3595>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0xf5/0x100
>> 47397d44: [<080e4a3f>] __do_fault+0x3cf/0x440
>> 47397d9c: [<080e6e0f>] handle_mm_fault+0xef/0x7c0
>> 47397dec: [<080e7817>] __get_user_pages+0x227/0x420
>> 47397e24: [<080e7ae3>] get_user_pages+0x63/0x70
>> 47397e4c: [<08143dc6>] SyS_io_setup+0x3c6/0x760
>> 47397eb0: [<08062984>] handle_syscall+0x64/0x80
>> 47397ef0: [<08074fb5>] userspace+0x475/0x5f0
>> 47397fec: [<0805f750>] fork_handler+0x60/0x70
>> 47397ffc: [<00000000>] 0x0
>>
>> /home/tfoerste/workspace/bin/start_uml.sh: line 115: 18718 Aborted (core dumped) $LINUX earlyprintk ubda=$ROOTFS ubdb=$SWAP eth0=$NET mem=$MEM $TTY umid=uml_$NAME rootfstype=ext4 "$ARGS"
>>
>>
>> >From what I see there are 2 different types of issues - and this is an example of the other of both
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> //richard
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> MfG/Sincerely
>> Toralf Förster
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>
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