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Message-ID: <CA+CK2bBdim9dEYsRJ+3HNg4+FsTM0185q54PU=gNKGPAWDpcNA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:45:04 -0400
From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>
To: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: fix tick timer stall during deferred page init
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:39 AM Shile Zhang
<shile.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> When 'CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT' is set, 'pgdatinit' kthread will
> initialise the deferred pages with local interrupts disabled. It is
> introduced by commit 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while
> initializing deferred pages").
>
> On machine with NCPUS <= 2, the 'pgdatinit' kthread could be bound to
> the boot CPU, which could caused the tick timer long time stall, system
> jiffies not be updated in time.
>
> The dmesg shown that:
>
> [ 0.197975] node 0 initialised, 32170688 pages in 1ms
>
> Obviously, 1ms is unreasonable.
>
> Now, fix it by restore in the pending interrupts for every 32*1204 pages
> (128MB) initialized, give the chance to update the systemd jiffies.
> The reasonable demsg shown likes:
>
> [ 1.069306] node 0 initialised, 32203456 pages in 894ms
Sorry for joining late to this thread. I wonder if we could use
sched_clock() to print this statistics. Or not to print statistics at
all?
==============
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3c4eb750a199..5958f599aced 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1770,7 +1770,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
unsigned long spfn = 0, epfn = 0, nr_pages = 0;
unsigned long first_init_pfn, flags;
- unsigned long start = jiffies;
+ unsigned long start = sched_clock();
struct zone *zone;
int zid;
u64 i;
@@ -1817,8 +1817,8 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
/* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */
WARN_ON(++zid < MAX_NR_ZONES && populated_zone(++zone));
- pr_info("node %d initialised, %lu pages in %ums\n",
- pgdat->node_id, nr_pages, jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - start));
+ pr_info("node %d initialised, %lu pages in %lldns\n",
+ pgdat->node_id, nr_pages, sched_clock() - start);
pgdat_init_report_one_done();
return 0;
==============
[ 1.245331] node 0 initialised, 10256176 pages in 373565742ns
Pasha
> Fixes: 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred pages").
>
> Co-developed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 3c4eb750a199..a3a47845e150 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1763,12 +1763,17 @@ deferred_init_maxorder(u64 *i, struct zone *zone, unsigned long *start_pfn,
> return nr_pages;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Release the pending interrupts for every TICK_PAGE_COUNT pages.
> + */
> +#define TICK_PAGE_COUNT (32 * 1024)
> +
> /* Initialise remaining memory on a node */
> static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
> {
> pg_data_t *pgdat = data;
> const struct cpumask *cpumask = cpumask_of_node(pgdat->node_id);
> - unsigned long spfn = 0, epfn = 0, nr_pages = 0;
> + unsigned long spfn = 0, epfn = 0, nr_pages = 0, prev_nr_pages = 0;
> unsigned long first_init_pfn, flags;
> unsigned long start = jiffies;
> struct zone *zone;
> @@ -1779,6 +1784,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
> if (!cpumask_empty(cpumask))
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask);
>
> +again:
> pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
> first_init_pfn = pgdat->first_deferred_pfn;
> if (first_init_pfn == ULONG_MAX) {
> @@ -1790,7 +1796,6 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
> /* Sanity check boundaries */
> BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn < pgdat->node_start_pfn);
> BUG_ON(pgdat->first_deferred_pfn > pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat));
> - pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
>
> /* Only the highest zone is deferred so find it */
> for (zid = 0; zid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zid++) {
> @@ -1809,9 +1814,23 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data)
> * that we can avoid introducing any issues with the buddy
> * allocator.
> */
> - while (spfn < epfn)
> + while (spfn < epfn) {
> nr_pages += deferred_init_maxorder(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn);
> + /*
> + * Release the interrupts for every TICK_PAGE_COUNT pages
> + * (128MB) to give tick timer the chance to update the
> + * system jiffies.
> + */
> + if ((nr_pages - prev_nr_pages) > TICK_PAGE_COUNT) {
> + prev_nr_pages = nr_pages;
> + pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = spfn;
> + pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
> + goto again;
> + }
> + }
> +
> zone_empty:
> + pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
> pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
>
> /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */
> --
> 2.24.0.rc2
>
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