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authorXunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>2020-09-04 16:35:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-09-05 12:14:29 -0700
commite3336cab2579012b1e72b5265adf98e2d6e244ad (patch)
tree2aa8864ea7a77193718d76789ad5e65e37fbf348 /mm/vmscan.c
parentf1796544a0ca0f14386a679d3d05fbc69235015e (diff)
mm: memcg: fix memcg reclaim soft lockup
We've met softlockup with "CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y", when the target memcg doesn't have any reclaimable memory. It can be easily reproduced as below: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 111s![memcg_test:2204] CPU: 0 PID: 2204 Comm: memcg_test Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2+ #12 Call Trace: shrink_lruvec+0x49f/0x640 shrink_node+0x2a6/0x6f0 do_try_to_free_pages+0xe9/0x3e0 try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xef/0x1f0 try_charge+0x2c1/0x750 mem_cgroup_charge+0xd7/0x240 __add_to_page_cache_locked+0x2fd/0x370 add_to_page_cache_lru+0x4a/0xc0 pagecache_get_page+0x10b/0x2f0 filemap_fault+0x661/0xad0 ext4_filemap_fault+0x2c/0x40 __do_fault+0x4d/0xf9 handle_mm_fault+0x1080/0x1790 It only happens on our 1-vcpu instances, because there's no chance for oom reaper to run to reclaim the to-be-killed process. Add a cond_resched() at the upper shrink_node_memcgs() to solve this issue, this will mean that we will get a scheduling point for each memcg in the reclaimed hierarchy without any dependency on the reclaimable memory in that memcg thus making it more predictable. Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1598495549-67324-1-git-send-email-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 99e1796eb833..9727dd8e2581 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2615,6 +2615,14 @@ static void shrink_node_memcgs(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
unsigned long reclaimed;
unsigned long scanned;
+ /*
+ * This loop can become CPU-bound when target memcgs
+ * aren't eligible for reclaim - either because they
+ * don't have any reclaimable pages, or because their
+ * memory is explicitly protected. Avoid soft lockups.
+ */
+ cond_resched();
+
mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(target_memcg, memcg);
if (mem_cgroup_below_min(memcg)) {