On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 03:01:36PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Tue 31-10-23 04:48:44, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > > Then tried: > > > - PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER=4, order=4 - cannot reproduce, > > > - PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER=4, order=5 - cannot reproduce, > > > - PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER=4, order=6 - freeze rather quickly > > > > > > I've retried the PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER=4,order=5 case several times > > > and I can't reproduce the issue there. I'm confused... > > > > And this kind of confirms that allocations > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER > > causing hangs is most likely just a coincidence. Rather something either in > > the block layer or in the storage driver has problems with handling bios > > with sufficiently high order pages attached. This is going to be a bit > > painful to debug I'm afraid. How long does it take for you trigger the > > hang? I'm asking to get rough estimate how heavy tracing we can afford so > > that we don't overwhelm the system... > > Sometimes it freezes just after logging in, but in worst case it takes > me about 10min of more or less `tar xz` + `dd`. Hi I would like to ask you to try this patch. Revert the changes to "order" and "PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER" back to normal and apply this patch on a clean upstream kernel. Does it deadlock? There is a bug in dm-crypt that it doesn't account large pages in cc->n_allocated_pages, this patch fixes the bug. Mikulas --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-stable/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c =================================================================== --- linux-stable.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2023-10-31 16:25:09.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-stable/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2023-10-31 16:53:14.000000000 +0100 @@ -1700,11 +1700,16 @@ retry: order = min(order, remaining_order); while (order > 0) { + if (unlikely(percpu_counter_read_positive(&cc->n_allocated_pages) + (1 << order) > dm_crypt_pages_per_client)) + goto decrease_order; pages = alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_COMP, order); - if (likely(pages != NULL)) + if (likely(pages != NULL)) { + percpu_counter_add(&cc->n_allocated_pages, 1 << order); goto have_pages; + } +decrease_order: order--; } @@ -1742,10 +1747,12 @@ static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(stru if (clone->bi_vcnt > 0) { /* bio_for_each_folio_all crashes with an empty bio */ bio_for_each_folio_all(fi, clone) { - if (folio_test_large(fi.folio)) + if (folio_test_large(fi.folio)) { + percpu_counter_sub(&cc->n_allocated_pages, 1 << folio_order(fi.folio)); folio_put(fi.folio); - else + } else { mempool_free(&fi.folio->page, &cc->page_pool); + } } } }