linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in __wake_up_common

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Date:   Wed, 2 Jan 2019 22:27:41 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     syzbot <syzbot+93d94a001cfbce9e60e1@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        aarcange@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux@...inikbrodowski.net, mhocko@...e.com,
        rientjes@...gle.com, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com,
        xieyisheng1@...wei.com, zhongjiang@...wei.com,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in __wake_up_common_lock

On 1/2/19 8:28 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/01/03 3:19, Qian Cai wrote:
>> On 1/2/19 1:06 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>
>>> While I recognise there is no test case available, how often does this
>>> trigger in syzbot as it would be nice to have some confirmation any
>>> patch is really fixing the problem.
>>
>> I think I did manage to trigger this every time running a mmap() workload
>> causing swapping and a low-memory situation [1].
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/mem/oom/oom01.c
> 
> wakeup_kswapd() is called because tlb_next_batch() is doing GFP_NOWAIT
> allocation. But since tlb_next_batch() can tolerate allocation failure,
> does below change in tlb_next_batch() help?
> 
> #define GFP_NOWAIT      (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
> 
> -	batch = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN, 0);
> +	batch = (void *)__get_free_pages(__GFP_NOWARN, 0);

No. In oom01 case, it is from,

do_anonymous_page
  __alloc_zeroed_user_highpage
    alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER ...

GFP_HIGHUSER -> GFP_USER -> __GFP_RECLAIM -> ___GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM


Then, it has this new code in steal_suitable_fallback() via 1c30844d2df (mm:
reclaim small amounts of memory when an external fragmentation event occurs)

 /*
  * Boost watermarks to increase reclaim pressure to reduce
  * the likelihood of future fallbacks. Wake kswapd now as
  * the node may be balanced overall and kswapd will not
  * wake naturally.
  */
  boost_watermark(zone);
  if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_KSWAPD)
  	wakeup_kswapd(zone, 0, 0, zone_idx(zone));