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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2022-02-11 16:32:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-02-11 17:55:00 -0800
commitb485c6f1f9f54b81443efda5f3d8a5036ba2cd91 (patch)
tree4e237dc005335033d18f5f48d9e0f6a5146030e0 /mm
parent24d7275ce2791829953ed4e72f68277ceb2571c6 (diff)
mm: vmscan: remove deadlock due to throttling failing to make progress
A soft lockup bug in kcompactd was reported in a private bugzilla with the following visible in dmesg; watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 26s! [kcompactd0:479] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 52s! [kcompactd0:479] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 78s! [kcompactd0:479] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#33 stuck for 104s! [kcompactd0:479] The machine had 256G of RAM with no swap and an earlier failed allocation indicated that node 0 where kcompactd was run was potentially unreclaimable; Node 0 active_anon:29355112kB inactive_anon:2913528kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:64kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:8kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB shmem:26780kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 23480320kB writeback_tmp:0kB kernel_stack:2272kB pagetables:24500kB all_unreclaimable? yes Vlastimil Babka investigated a crash dump and found that a task migrating pages was trying to drain PCP lists; PID: 52922 TASK: ffff969f820e5000 CPU: 19 COMMAND: "kworker/u128:3" Call Trace: __schedule schedule schedule_timeout wait_for_completion __flush_work __drain_all_pages __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.114 __alloc_pages alloc_migration_target migrate_pages migrate_to_node do_migrate_pages cpuset_migrate_mm_workfn process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork This failure is specific to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. The root of the problem is that kcompact0 is not rescheduling on a CPU while a task that has isolated a large number of the pages from the LRU is waiting on kcompact0 to reschedule so the pages can be released. While shrink_inactive_list() only loops once around too_many_isolated, reclaim can continue without rescheduling if sc->skipped_deactivate == 1 which could happen if there was no file LRU and the inactive anon list was not low. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203100326.GD3301@suse.de Fixes: d818fca1cac3 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim and compaction when too may pages are isolated") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 090bfb605ecf..59b14e0d696c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1066,8 +1066,10 @@ void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason)
* forward progress (e.g. journalling workqueues or kthreads).
*/
if (!current_is_kswapd() &&
- current->flags & (PF_IO_WORKER|PF_KTHREAD))
+ current->flags & (PF_IO_WORKER|PF_KTHREAD)) {
+ cond_resched();
return;
+ }
/*
* These figures are pulled out of thin air.