linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/migrate: Fix ref-count handling when !hugepage_migration

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Message-ID: <87tw49dyu9.fsf@e105922-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 11:18:06 +0100
From:   Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:     Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "will.deacon\@arm.com" <will.deacon@....com>,
        "catalin.marinas\@arm.com" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        "manoj.iyer\@arm.com" <manoj.iyer@....com>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-mm\@kvack.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "tbaicar\@codeaurora.org" <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>,
        "timur\@qti.qualcomm.com" <timur@....qualcomm.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/migrate: Fix ref-count handling when !hugepage_migration_supported()

Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:47:28PM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> On failing to migrate a page, soft_offline_huge_page() performs the
>> necessary update to the hugepage ref-count. When
>> !hugepage_migration_supported() , unmap_and_move_hugepage() also
>> decrements the page ref-count for the hugepage. The combined behaviour
>> leaves the ref-count in an inconsistent state.
>> 
>> This leads to soft lockups when running the overcommitted hugepage test
>> from mce-tests suite.
>> 
>> Soft offlining pfn 0x83ed600 at process virtual address 0x400000000000
>> soft offline: 0x83ed600: migration failed 1, type
>> 1fffc00000008008 (uptodate|head)
>> INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
>>  Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-7): P2715
>>   (detected by 7, t=5254 jiffies, g=963, c=962, q=321)
>>   thugetlb_overco R  running task        0  2715   2685 0x00000008
>>   Call trace:
>>   [<ffff000008089f90>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x268
>>   [<ffff00000808a2d4>] show_stack+0x24/0x30
>>   [<ffff000008100d34>] sched_show_task+0x134/0x180
>>   [<ffff0000081c90fc>] rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp+0x54/0x7c
>>   [<ffff00000813cfd4>] rcu_check_callbacks+0xa74/0xb08
>>   [<ffff000008143a3c>] update_process_times+0x34/0x60
>>   [<ffff0000081550e8>] tick_sched_handle.isra.7+0x38/0x70
>>   [<ffff00000815516c>] tick_sched_timer+0x4c/0x98
>>   [<ffff0000081442e0>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xc0/0x300
>>   [<ffff000008144fa4>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xac/0x228
>>   [<ffff0000089a56d4>] arch_timer_handler_phys+0x3c/0x50
>>   [<ffff00000812f1bc>] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x290
>>   [<ffff0000081297fc>] generic_handle_irq+0x34/0x50
>>   [<ffff000008129f00>] __handle_domain_irq+0x68/0xc0
>>   [<ffff0000080816b4>] gic_handle_irq+0x5c/0xb0
>> 
>> Fix this by dropping the ref-count decrement in
>> unmap_and_move_hugepage() when !hugepage_migration_supported().
>> 
>> Fixes: 32665f2bbfed ("mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()")
>> Reported-by: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer@...onical.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
>> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
>> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
>> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
>> 
>> --
>> Hi Andrew,
>> 
>> We ran into this bug when working towards enabling memory corruption
>> on arm64. The patch was tested on an arm64 platform running v4.12-rc2
>> with the series to enable memory corruption handling[0].
>> 
>> Please consider merging as a fix for the 4.12 release.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Punit
>> 
>> [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg581657.html
>> ---
>>  mm/migrate.c | 4 +---
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
>> index 89a0a1707f4c..187abd1526df 100644
>> --- a/mm/migrate.c
>> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
>> @@ -1201,10 +1201,8 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
>>  	 * tables or check whether the hugepage is pmd-based or not before
>>  	 * kicking migration.
>>  	 */
>> -	if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(hpage))) {
>> -		putback_active_hugepage(hpage);
>
> Thank you for reporting and suggestion, Punit, Manoj.
>
> Simply dropping this putback_active_hugepage() may resume the failure
> counting issue addressed in 32665f2bbfed, so I would recommend to call
> putback_movable_pages() in failure path in soft_offline_huge_page().
>
> @@ -1600,7 +1600,8 @@ static int soft_offline_huge_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>  		 * only one hugepage pointed to by hpage, so we need not
>  		 * run through the pagelist here.
>  		 */
> -		putback_active_hugepage(hpage);
> +		if (!list_empty(&pagelist))
> +			putback_movable_pages(&pagelist);
>  		if (ret > 0)
>  			ret = -EIO;
>  	} else {
>
> Could you check this works for you?

Using this sequence works as well. I'll send out an update shortly.

Thanks

>
> Thanks,
> Naoya Horiguchi
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