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Message-ID: <CAHbLzkrnEQkOsr=uUBx=aHP07pu5kMgFLvCpwNjgCunYJfo=Pg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:51:02 -0700
From: Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
To: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
cfijalkovich@...gle.com, song@...nel.org,
william.kucharski@...cle.com, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, thp: bail out early in collapse_file for
writeback page
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 7:16 PM Rongwei Wang
<rongwei.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2021, at 12:56 AM, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 5:12 AM Rongwei Wang
> <rongwei.wang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>
> Currently collapse_file does not explicitly check PG_writeback, instead,
> page_has_private and try_to_release_page are used to filter writeback
> pages. This does not work for xfs with blocksize equal to or larger
>
>
> I'm not quite sure if using try_to_release() to check the writeback
> flag is on purpose or not, but it should be better to check the flag
> more explicitly.
>
> Uh-huh. It is sure that try_to_release_page will check the writeback flag
> of page. But the place where check the writeback flag using:
>
> If (page_has_private(page) &&
> !try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> ...
> }
>
> The original code will miss the page which in writeback status but has no private data.
> The XFS case that above mentioned belongs to.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> than pagesize, because in such case xfs has no page->private.
>
> This makes collapse_file bail out early for writeback page. Otherwise,
> xfs end_page_writeback will panic as follows.
>
> [ 6411.448211] page:fffffe00201bcc80 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff0003f88c86a8 index:0x0 pfn:0x84ef32
> [ 6411.448304] aops:xfs_address_space_operations [xfs] ino:30000b7 dentry name:"libtest.so"
> [ 6411.448312] flags: 0x57fffe0000008027(locked|referenced|uptodate|active|writeback)
> [ 6411.448317] raw: 57fffe0000008027 ffff80001b48bc28 ffff80001b48bc28 ffff0003f88c86a8
> [ 6411.448321] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff ffff0000c3e9a000
> [ 6411.448324] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(((unsigned int) page_ref_count(page) + 127u <= 127u))
> [ 6411.448327] page->mem_cgroup:ffff0000c3e9a000
> [ 6411.448340] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 6411.448343] kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1212!
> [ 6411.449288] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP
> [ 6411.449786] Modules linked in:
> [ 6411.449790] BUG: Bad page state in process khugepaged pfn:84ef32
> [ 6411.450143] xfs(E)
> [ 6411.450459] page:fffffe00201bcc80 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0 index:0x0 pfn:0x84ef32
> [ 6411.451361] libcrc32c(E) rfkill(E) aes_ce_blk(E) crypto_simd(E) cryptd(E) aes_ce_cipher(E) crct10dif_ce(E) ghash_ce(E) sha1_ce(E) uio_pdrv_genirq(E) uio(E) vfat(E) nfsd(E) fat(E) auth_rpcgss(E) nfs_acl(E) lockd(E) grace(E) sunrpc(E) sch_fq_codel(E) ip_tables(E) ext4(E) mbcache(E) jbd2(E) virtio_net(E) net_failover(E) virtio_blk(E) failover(E) sha2_ce(E) sha256_arm64(E) virtio_mmio(E) virtio_pci(E) virtio_ring(E) virtio(E)
> [ 6411.451387] CPU: 25 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/25 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W E
> [ 6411.451389] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
> [ 6411.451393] pc : end_page_writeback+0x1c0/0x214
> [ 6411.451394] lr : end_page_writeback+0x1c0/0x214
> [ 6411.451395] sp : ffff800011ce3cc0
> [ 6411.451396] x29: ffff800011ce3cc0 x28: 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451398] x27: ffff000c04608040 x26: 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451399] x25: ffff000c04608040 x24: 0000000000001000
> [ 6411.451401] x23: ffff0003f88c8530 x22: 0000000000001000
> [ 6411.451403] x21: ffff0003f88c8530 x20: 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451404] x19: fffffe00201bcc80 x18: 0000000000000030
> [ 6411.451406] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451407] x15: ffff000c018f9760 x14: ffffffffffffffff
> [ 6411.451409] x13: ffff8000119d72b0 x12: ffff8000119d6ee3
> [ 6411.451410] x11: ffff8000117b69b8 x10: 00000000ffff8000
> [ 6411.451412] x9 : ffff800010617534 x8 : 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451413] x7 : ffff8000114f69b8 x6 : 000000000000000f
> [ 6411.451415] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451416] x3 : 0000000000000400 x2 : 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451418] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
> [ 6411.451420] Call trace:
> [ 6411.451421] end_page_writeback+0x1c0/0x214
> [ 6411.451424] iomap_finish_page_writeback+0x13c/0x204
> [ 6411.451425] iomap_finish_ioend+0xe8/0x19c
> [ 6411.451426] iomap_writepage_end_bio+0x38/0x50
> [ 6411.451427] bio_endio+0x168/0x1ec
> [ 6411.451430] blk_update_request+0x278/0x3f0
> [ 6411.451432] blk_mq_end_request+0x34/0x15c
> [ 6411.451435] virtblk_request_done+0x38/0x74 [virtio_blk]
> [ 6411.451437] blk_done_softirq+0xc4/0x110
> [ 6411.451439] __do_softirq+0x128/0x38c
> [ 6411.451441] __irq_exit_rcu+0x118/0x150
> [ 6411.451442] irq_exit+0x1c/0x30
> [ 6411.451445] __handle_domain_irq+0x8c/0xf0
> [ 6411.451446] gic_handle_irq+0x84/0x108
> [ 6411.451447] el1_irq+0xcc/0x180
> [ 6411.451448] arch_cpu_idle+0x18/0x40
> [ 6411.451450] default_idle_call+0x4c/0x1a0
> [ 6411.451453] cpuidle_idle_call+0x168/0x1e0
> [ 6411.451454] do_idle+0xb4/0x104
> [ 6411.451455] cpu_startup_entry+0x30/0x9c
> [ 6411.451458] secondary_start_kernel+0x104/0x180
> [ 6411.451460] Code: d4210000 b0006161 910c8021 94013f4d (d4210000)
> [ 6411.451462] ---[ end trace 4a88c6a074082f8c ]---
> [ 6411.451464] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception in interrupt
>
> Fixes: eb6ecbed0aa2 ("mm, thp: relax the VM_DENYWRITE constraint on file-backed THPs")
> Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 045cc57..529b117 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1798,7 +1798,8 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
> goto out_unlock;
> }
>
> - if (!is_shmem && PageDirty(page)) {
> + if (!is_shmem && (PageDirty(page) ||
> + PageWriteback(page))) {
>
>
> Why not check the writeback flag in the place before taking page lock too?
>
> Thanks! Your words remind me. I will double check the writeback flag before
> and after taking page lock. Likes:
>
> + } else if (PageWriteback(page)) {
> + xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
> + result = SCAN_FAIL;
> + goto xa_unlocked;
> } else if (trylock_page(page)) {
> get_page(page);
> xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
> @@ -1798,7 +1802,8 @@ static void collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
> goto out_unlock;
> }
>
> - if (!is_shmem && PageDirty(page)) {
> + if (!is_shmem && (PageDirty(page) ||
> + PageWriteback(page))) {
Yeah, this is what I meant. Thanks.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> /*
> * khugepaged only works on read-only fd, so this
> * page is dirty because it hasn't been flushed
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
>
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