On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 07:51:16PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Though debug kernels have a VM_BUG_ON to help protect from misaccounting
> lru_size, non-debug kernels are liable to wrap it around: and then the
> vast unsigned long size draws page reclaim into a loop of repeatedly
> doing nothing on an empty list, without even a cond_resched().
>
> That soft lockup looks confusingly like an over-busy reclaim scenario,
> with lots of contention on the lruvec lock in shrink_inactive_list():
> yet has a totally different origin.
>
> Help differentiate with a custom warning in mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(),
> even in non-debug kernels; and reset the size to avoid the lockup. But
> the particular bug which suggested this change was mine alone, and since
> fixed.
Do we need this kind of check for !MEMCG kernels?
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm_inline.h | 2 +-
> mm/memcontrol.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- thpfs.orig/include/linux/mm_inline.h 2013-11-03 15:41:51.000000000 -0800
> +++ thpfs/include/linux/mm_inline.h 2015-02-20 19:33:25.928096883 -0800
> @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ static __always_inline void del_page_fro
> struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru)
> {
> int nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
> - mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, -nr_pages);
> list_del(&page->lru);
> + mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(lruvec, lru, -nr_pages);
> __mod_zone_page_state(lruvec_zone(lruvec), NR_LRU_BASE + lru, -nr_pages);
> }
>
> --- thpfs.orig/mm/memcontrol.c 2015-02-08 18:54:22.000000000 -0800
> +++ thpfs/mm/memcontrol.c 2015-02-20 19:33:25.928096883 -0800
> @@ -1296,22 +1296,38 @@ out:
> * @lru: index of lru list the page is sitting on
> * @nr_pages: positive when adding or negative when removing
> *
> - * This function must be called when a page is added to or removed from an
> - * lru list.
> + * This function must be called under lruvec lock, just before a page is added
> + * to or just after a page is removed from an lru list (that ordering being so
> + * as to allow it to check that lru_size 0 is consistent with list_empty).
> */
> void mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list lru,
> int nr_pages)
> {
> struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz;
> unsigned long *lru_size;
> + long size;
> + bool empty;
>
> if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> return;
>
> mz = container_of(lruvec, struct mem_cgroup_per_zone, lruvec);
> lru_size = mz->lru_size + lru;
> - *lru_size += nr_pages;
> - VM_BUG_ON((long)(*lru_size) < 0);
> + empty = list_empty(lruvec->lists + lru);
> +
> + if (nr_pages < 0)
> + *lru_size += nr_pages;
> +
> + size = *lru_size;
> + if (WARN(size < 0 || empty != !size,
> + "mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(%p, %d, %d): lru_size %ld but %sempty\n",
> + lruvec, lru, nr_pages, size, empty ? "" : "not ")) {
Formatting can be unscrewed this way:
if (WARN(size < 0 || empty != !size,
"%s(%p, %d, %d): lru_size %ld but %sempty\n",
__func__, lruvec, lru, nr_pages, size, empty ? "" : "not ")) {
> + VM_BUG_ON(1);
> + *lru_size = 0;
> + }
> +
> + if (nr_pages > 0)
> + *lru_size += nr_pages;
> }
>
> bool mem_cgroup_is_descendant(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *root)
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