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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 14:39:28 -0700 From: Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org> To: Peng Liu <liupeng256@...wei.com>, brendanhiggins@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com, elver@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, kunit-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org Cc: wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kfence: test: try to avoid test_gfpzero trigger rcu_stall On 3/8/22 6:47 PM, Peng Liu wrote: > When CONFIG_KFENCE_DYNAMIC_OBJECTS is set to a big number, kfence > kunit-test-case test_gfpzero will eat up nearly all the CPU's > resources and rcu_stall is reported as the following log which is > cut from a physical server. > > rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU > rcu: 68-....: (14422 ticks this GP) idle=6ce/1/0x4000000000000002 > softirq=592/592 fqs=7500 (t=15004 jiffies g=10677 q=20019) > Task dump for CPU 68: > task:kunit_try_catch state:R running task > stack: 0 pid: 9728 ppid: 2 flags:0x0000020a > Call trace: > dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1e4 > show_stack+0x20/0x2c > sched_show_task+0x148/0x170 > ... > rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x70/0x180 > update_process_times+0x68/0xb0 > tick_sched_handle+0x38/0x74 > ... > gic_handle_irq+0x78/0x2c0 > el1_irq+0xb8/0x140 > kfree+0xd8/0x53c > test_alloc+0x264/0x310 [kfence_test] > test_gfpzero+0xf4/0x840 [kfence_test] > kunit_try_run_case+0x48/0x20c > kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x28/0x34 > kthread+0x108/0x13c > ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 > > To avoid rcu_stall and unacceptable latency, a schedule point is > added to test_gfpzero. > > Signed-off-by: Peng Liu <liupeng256@...wei.com> > --- > mm/kfence/kfence_test.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c b/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c > index caed6b4eba94..1b50f70a4c0f 100644 > --- a/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c > +++ b/mm/kfence/kfence_test.c > @@ -627,6 +627,7 @@ static void test_gfpzero(struct kunit *test) > kunit_warn(test, "giving up ... cannot get same object back\n"); > return; > } > + cond_resched(); This sounds like a band-aid - is there a better way to fix this? > } > > for (i = 0; i < size; i++) > thanks, -- Shuah
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