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Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 13:11:15 -0400
From: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
cgroups@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/19] mm: memcontrol: convert anon and file-thp to new
mem_cgroup_charge() API
> On May 12, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Qian Cai <cai@....pw> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On May 8, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
>>
>> With the page->mapping requirement gone from memcg, we can charge anon
>> and file-thp pages in one single step, right after they're allocated.
>>
>> This removes two out of three API calls - especially the tricky commit
>> step that needed to happen at just the right time between when the
>> page is "set up" and when it's "published" - somewhat vague and fluid
>> concepts that varied by page type. All we need is a freshly allocated
>> page and a memcg context to charge.
>>
>> v2: prevent double charges on pre-allocated hugepages in khugepaged
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
>> ---
>> include/linux/mm.h | 4 +---
>> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 11 +++--------
>> mm/filemap.c | 2 +-
>> mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++------
>> mm/khugepaged.c | 35 ++++++++++-------------------------
>> mm/memory.c | 36 ++++++++++--------------------------
>> mm/migrate.c | 5 +----
>> mm/swapfile.c | 6 +-----
>> mm/userfaultfd.c | 5 +----
>> 9 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
> []
>> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
>>
>> @@ -1198,10 +1193,11 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
>> out_up_write:
>> up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>> out_nolock:
>> + if (*hpage)
>> + mem_cgroup_uncharge(*hpage);
>> trace_mm_collapse_huge_page(mm, isolated, result);
>> return;
>> out:
>> - mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg);
>> goto out_up_write;
>> }
> []
>
> Some memory pressure will crash this new code. It looks like somewhat racy.
Reverted the whole series fixed the crash, i.e.,
git revert --no-edit 6070efb8e52b..c986ddf58a95
There is a minor conflict during reverting due to another linux-next commit,
2a6b525f0de1 (“khugepaged: do not stop collapse if less than half PTEs are referenced”)
which is trivial to resolve,
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@@ -1091,8 -1000,8 +1093,9 @@@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct m
* If it fails, we release mmap_sem and jump out_nolock.
* Continuing to collapse causes inconsistency.
*/
- if (!__collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address, pmd, referenced)) {
+ if (unmapped && !__collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address,
+ pmd, referenced)) {
+ mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true);
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
goto out_nolock;
}
>
> if (!page->mem_cgroup)
>
> where page == NULL in mem_cgroup_uncharge().
>
> [ 2244.414421][ T726] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x0000002c
> [ 2244.414454][ T726] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000004f7e44
> [ 2244.414467][ T726] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> [ 2244.414488][ T726] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=256 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA PowerNV
> [ 2244.414501][ T726] Modules linked in: brd ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 loop kvm_hv kvm ip_tables x_tables xfs sd_mod bnx2x ahci tg3 libahci libphy mdio libata firmware_class dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
> [ 2244.414556][ T726] CPU: 11 PID: 726 Comm: khugepaged Not tainted 5.7.0-rc5-next-20200512+ #8
> [ 2244.414579][ T726] NIP: c0000000004f7e44 LR: c0000000004df95c CTR: c0000000001c1400
> [ 2244.414600][ T726] REGS: c000001a2398f6e0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.7.0-rc5-next-20200512+)
> [ 2244.414630][ T726] MSR: 9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24000244 XER: 20040000
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] CFAR: c0000000004df958 DAR: 000000000000002c DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR00: c0000000004df95c c000001a2398f970 c00000000168a700 fffffffffffffff4
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR04: ffffffffffffffff c000000000bd0980 0000000000000005 0000000000000080
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR08: 0000001ffc030000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 c00000000152bb58
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR12: 0000000024000222 c000001fffff5680 c0000001d818ce00 c0000001d818cd00
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR16: 0000000000000000 c000001a2398fce0 fe7fffffffffefff fffffffffffffe7f
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR20: c000201320aa53c8 000000000000001e 0000000000000017 c00020047636b868
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000001756080 c000001a2398fce0
> [ 2244.414656][ T726] GPR28: c000001a2398fa20 00007ffeeda00000 c000200f28547928 c000200f28547880
> [ 2244.414865][ T726] NIP [c0000000004f7e44] mem_cgroup_uncharge+0x34/0xb0
> mem_cgroup_uncharge at mm/memcontrol.c:6563
> [ 2244.414895][ T726] LR [c0000000004df95c] collapse_huge_page+0x24c/0x1000
> collapse_huge_page at mm/khugepaged.c:1197
> [ 2244.414924][ T726] Call Trace:
> [ 2244.414940][ T726] [c000001a2398f970] [0000000000000001] 0x1 (unreliable)
> [ 2244.414970][ T726] [c000001a2398f9c0] [c0000000004df814] collapse_huge_page+0x104/0x1000
> collapse_huge_page at mm/khugepaged.c:1064 (discriminator 10)
> [ 2244.414991][ T726] [c000001a2398faf0] [c0000000004e0f84] khugepaged_scan_pmd+0x874/0xc70
> [ 2244.415021][ T726] [c000001a2398fbf0] [c0000000004e2a90] khugepaged+0x900/0x1920
> [ 2244.415043][ T726] [c000001a2398fdb0] [c000000000155aa4] kthread+0x1c4/0x1d0
> [ 2244.415075][ T726] [c000001a2398fe20] [c00000000000cb28] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74
> [ 2244.415095][ T726] Instruction dump:
> [ 2244.415113][ T726] 384228f0 7c0802a6 60000000 f821ffb1 e92d0c70 f9210048 39200000 3d22ffec
> [ 2244.415146][ T726] 3929f9f4 81290000 2f890000 409d0048 <e9230038> 2fa90000 419e003c 7c0802a6
> [ 2244.415181][ T726] ---[ end trace 3488eb8818913a26 ]---
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