linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] mm/compaction: no stuck in __reset_isolation

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Date:   Tue,  5 Feb 2019 22:47:32 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     mgorman@...hsingularity.net, vbabka@...e.cz, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Subject: [PATCH -next] mm/compaction: no stuck in __reset_isolation_pfn()

The commit c68d77911c23 ("mm, compaction: be selective about what
pageblocks to clear skip hints") introduced an infinite loop if a pfn is
invalid, it will loop again without increasing page counters. It can be
reproduced by running LTP tests on an arm64 server.

 # oom01 (swapping)
 # hugemmap01
tst_test.c:1096: INFO: Timeout per run is 0h 05m 00s
mem.c:814: INFO: set nr_hugepages to 128
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
Cannot kill test processes!
Congratulation, likely test hit a kernel bug.

Also, triggers soft lockups.

[  456.232228] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#122 stuck for 22s! [kswapd0:1375]
[  456.273354] pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
[  456.278143] pc : pfn_valid+0x54/0xdc
[  456.281713] lr : __reset_isolation_pfn+0x3a8/0x584
[  456.369358] Call trace:
[  456.371798]  pfn_valid+0x54/0xdc
[  456.375019]  __reset_isolation_pfn+0x3a8/0x584
[  456.379455]  __reset_isolation_suitable+0x1bc/0x280
[  456.384325]  reset_isolation_suitable+0xb8/0xe0
[  456.388847]  kswapd+0xd08/0x1048
[  456.392067]  kthread+0x2f4/0x30c
[  456.395289]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

Fixes: c68d77911c23 ("mm, compaction: be selective about what pageblocks to clear skip hints")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 03804ab412f3..1cc871da3fda 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -282,17 +282,16 @@ __reset_isolation_pfn(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pfn, bool check_source,
 	end_page = pfn_to_page(pfn);

 	do {
-		if (!pfn_valid_within(pfn))
-			continue;
-
-		if (check_source && PageLRU(page)) {
-			clear_pageblock_skip(page);
-			return true;
-		}
+		if (pfn_valid_within(pfn)) {
+			if (check_source && PageLRU(page)) {
+				clear_pageblock_skip(page);
+				return true;
+			}

-		if (check_target && PageBuddy(page)) {
-			clear_pageblock_skip(page);
-			return true;
+			if (check_target && PageBuddy(page)) {
+				clear_pageblock_skip(page);
+				return true;
+			}
 		}

 		page += (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
-- 
2.17.2 (Apple Git-113)