The patch titled
Subject: mm: update_lru_size warn and reset bad lru_size
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size.patch
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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: update_lru_size warn and reset bad lru_size
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 lru_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.
Make it a WARN_ONCE: the first occurrence is the most informative, a
flurry may follow, yet even when rate-limited little more is learnt.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ning Qu <quning@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 2 +-
mm/memcontrol.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/mm_inline.h~mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size include/linux/mm_inline.h
--- a/include/linux/mm_inline.h~mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size
+++ a/include/linux/mm_inline.h
@@ -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);
}
diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1022,22 +1022,38 @@ 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 lru_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_ONCE(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 task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-update_lru_size-warn-and-reset-bad-lru_size.patch
mm-update_lru_size-do-the-__mod_zone_page_state.patch
mm-use-__setpageswapbacked-and-dont-clearpageswapbacked.patch
tmpfs-preliminary-minor-tidyups.patch
mm-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-to-force-vmstat-update.patch
huge-mm-move_huge_pmd-does-not-need-new_vma.patch
huge-pagecache-extend-mremap-pmd-rmap-lockout-to-files.patch
huge-pagecache-mmap_sem-is-unlocked-when-truncation-splits-pmd.patch
arch-fix-has_transparent_hugepage.patch
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