The patch titled
Subject: mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range.patch
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From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range()
While testing on a large CPU system, detected the following RCU stall many
times over the span of the workload. This problem is solved by adding a
cond_resched() in the change_pmd_range() function.
[ 850.962530] INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
[ 850.962584] 154-....: (670 ticks this GP) idle=022/140000000000000/0 softirq=2825/2825 fqs=612
[ 850.962605] (detected by 955, t=6002 jiffies, g=4486, c=4485, q=90864)
[ 850.962895] Sending NMI from CPU 955 to CPUs 154:
[ 850.992667] NMI backtrace for cpu 154
[ 850.993069] CPU: 154 PID: 147071 Comm: workload Not tainted 4.15.0-rc3+ #3
[ 850.993258] NIP: c0000000000b3f64 LR: c0000000000b33d4 CTR: 000000000000aa18
[ 850.993503] REGS: 00000000a4b0fb44 TRAP: 0501 Not tainted (4.15.0-rc3+)
[ 850.993707] MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 22422082 XER: 00000000
[ 850.994386] CFAR: 00000000006cf8f0 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: 0010000000000000 c00003ef9b1cb8c0 c0000000010cc600 0000000000000000
GPR04: 8e0000018c32b200 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b208 40017b3858fd6e00
GPR08: 8e0000018c32b210 40017b3858fd6e00 8e0000018c32b218 40017b3858fd6e00
GPR12: ffffffffffffffff c00000000fb25100
[ 850.995976] NIP [c0000000000b3f64] plpar_hcall9+0x44/0x7c
[ 850.996174] LR [c0000000000b33d4] pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range+0x384/0x420
[ 850.996401] Call Trace:
[ 850.996600] [c00003ef9b1cb8c0] [c00003fa8fff7d40] 0xc00003fa8fff7d40 (unreliable)
[ 850.996959] [c00003ef9b1cba40] [c0000000000688a8] flush_hash_range+0x48/0x100
[ 850.997261] [c00003ef9b1cba90] [c000000000071b14] __flush_tlb_pending+0x44/0xd0
[ 850.997600] [c00003ef9b1cbac0] [c000000000071fa8] hpte_need_flush+0x408/0x470
[ 850.997958] [c00003ef9b1cbb30] [c0000000002c646c] change_protection_range+0xaac/0xf10
[ 850.998180] [c00003ef9b1cbcb0] [c0000000002f2510] change_prot_numa+0x30/0xb0
[ 850.998502] [c00003ef9b1cbce0] [c00000000013a950] task_numa_work+0x2d0/0x3e0
[ 850.998816] [c00003ef9b1cbda0] [c00000000011ea30] task_work_run+0x130/0x190
[ 850.999121] [c00003ef9b1cbe00] [c00000000001bcd8] do_notify_resume+0x118/0x120
[ 850.999421] [c00003ef9b1cbe30] [c00000000000b744] ret_from_except_lite+0x70/0x74
[ 850.999716] Instruction dump:
[ 850.999959] 60000000 f8810028 7ca42b78 7cc53378 7ce63b78 7d074378 7d284b78 7d495378
[ 851.000575] e9410060 e9610068 e9810070 44000022 <7d806378> e9810028 f88c0000 f8ac0008
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171214140551.5794-1-khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mprotect.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/mprotect.c~mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range mm/mprotect.c
--- a/mm/mprotect.c~mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range
+++ a/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (!is_swap_pmd(*pmd) && !pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) && !pmd_devmap(*pmd)
&& pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
- continue;
+ goto next;
/* invoke the mmu notifier if the pmd is populated */
if (!mni_start) {
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
}
/* huge pmd was handled */
- continue;
+ goto next;
}
}
/* fall through, the trans huge pmd just split */
@@ -196,6 +196,8 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_r
this_pages = change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
dirty_accountable, prot_numa);
pages += this_pages;
+next:
+ cond_resched();
} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
if (mni_start)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-mprotect-add-a-cond_resched-inside-change_pmd_range.patch
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