linux-kernel - Re: cgroup and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 2438 at mm/page_counter.c:57 page_counter

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Message-ID: <563d1eef-b780-835a-ebf0-88ae111b20c2@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:15:15 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@...hat.com>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: cgroup and FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 2438 at
 mm/page_counter.c:57 page_counter_uncharge+0x4b/0x5

On 14.10.20 17:22, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Michal Privoznik played with "free page reporting" in QEMU/virtio-balloon
> with hugetlbfs and reported that this results in [1]
> 
> 1. WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 2438 at mm/page_counter.c:57 page_counter_uncharge+0x4b/0x5
> 
> 2. Any hugetlbfs allocations failing. (I assume because some accounting is wrong)
> 
> 
> QEMU with free page hinting uses fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)
> to discard pages that are reported as free by a VM. The reporting
> granularity is in pageblock granularity. So when the guest reports
> 2M chunks, we fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) one huge page in QEMU.
> 
> I was also able to reproduce (also with virtio-mem, which similarly
> uses fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)) on latest v5.9
> (and on v5.7.X from F32).
> 
> Looks like something with fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) accounting
> is broken with cgroups. I did *not* try without cgroups yet.
> 
> Any ideas?

Just tried without the hugetlb controller, seems to work just fine.

I'd like to note that
- The controller was not activated
- I had to compile the hugetlb controller out to make it work.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb