Message-ID: <2ab277af-06ed-41a9-a2b4-91dd1ffce733@fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 02:14:13 +0000
From: "Zhijian Li (Fujitsu)" <lizhijian@...itsu.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
CC: "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Oscar
 Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Yasunori Gotou (Fujitsu)"
	<y-goto@...itsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: Avoid triggering oom-killer during memory
 hot-remove operations



On 29/07/2024 08:37, Li Zhijian wrote:
> Michal,
> 
> Sorry to the late reply.
> 
> 
> On 26/07/2024 17:17, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Fri 26-07-24 16:44:56, Li Zhijian wrote:
>>> When a process is bound to a node that is being hot-removed, any memory
>>> allocation attempts from that node should fail gracefully without
>>> triggering the OOM-killer. However, the current behavior can cause the
>>> oom-killer to be invoked, leading to the termination of processes on other
>>> nodes, even when there is sufficient memory available in the system.
>>
>> But you said they are bound to the node that is offlined.
>>> Prevent the oom-killer from being triggered by processes bound to a
>>> node undergoing hot-remove operations. Instead, the allocation attempts
>>> from the offlining node will simply fail, allowing the process to handle
>>> the failure appropriately without causing disruption to the system.
>>
>> NAK.
>>
>> Also it is not really clear why process of offlining should behave any
>> different from after the node is offlined. Could you describe an actual
>> problem you are facing with much more details please?
> 
> We encountered that some processes(including some system critical services, for example sshd, rsyslogd, login)
> were killed during our memory hot-remove testing. Our test program are described previous mail[1]
> 
> In short, we have 3 memory nodes, node0 and node1 are DRAM, while node2 is CXL volatile memory that is onlined
> to ZONE_MOVABLE. When we attempted to remove the node2, oom-killed was invoked to kill other processes
> (sshd, rsyslogd, login) even though there is enough memory on node0+node1.

Attached the dmesg as following:

[13853.707626] consume_std_pag invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[13853.708400] CPU: 1 PID: 274746 Comm: consume_std_pag Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2+ #160
[13853.708745] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[13853.709161] Call Trace:
[13853.709161]  <TASK>
[13853.709161]  dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80
[13853.709161]  dump_header+0x44/0x1a0
[13853.709161]  oom_kill_process+0xf8/0x200
[13853.709161]  out_of_memory+0x110/0x590
[13853.709161]  __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.92+0xb5f/0xd80
[13853.709161]  __alloc_pages_noprof+0x354/0x380
[13853.709161]  alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0xe3/0x1f0
[13853.709161]  vma_alloc_folio_noprof+0x5c/0xb0
[13853.709161]  folio_prealloc+0x21/0x80
[13853.709161]  do_pte_missing+0x695/0xa20
[13853.709161]  ? __pte_offset_map+0x1b/0x180
[13853.709161]  __handle_mm_fault+0x65f/0xc10
[13853.709161]  ? sched_tick+0xd7/0x2b0
[13853.709161]  handle_mm_fault+0x128/0x360
[13853.709161]  do_user_addr_fault+0x309/0x810
[13853.709161]  exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180
[13853.709161]  asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
[13853.709161] RIP: 0033:0x7f1d3ae2428a
[13853.709161] Code: c5 fe 7f 07 c5 fe 7f 47 20 c5 fe 7f 47 40 c5 fe 7f 47 60 c5 f8 77 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 40 0f b6 c6 48 89 d1 48 89 fa <f3> aa 48 89 d0 c5 f8 77 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90
[13853.712991] RSP: 002b:00007ffe083a2388 EFLAGS: 00000206
[13853.712991] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffe083a24d8 RCX: 0000000007eb8010
[13853.713915] Fallback order for Node 0: 0 1
[13853.713987] Fallback order for Node 1: 1 0
[13853.714006] Fallback order for Node 2: 0 1
[13853.714175] Built 3 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 2002419
[13853.712991] RDX: 00007f1d32c00010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f1d32d48000
[13853.712991] RBP: 00007ffe083a23b0 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
[13853.714439] Policy zone: Normal
[13853.712991] R10: 00007f1d3acd5200 R11: 00007f1d3ae241c0 R12: 0000000000000002
[13853.712991] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f1d3aeea000 R15: 0000000000403e00
[13853.712991]  </TASK>
[13853.716564] Mem-Info:
[13853.716688] active_anon:17939 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[13853.716688]  active_file:132347 inactive_file:109560 isolated_file:0
[13853.716688]  unevictable:0 dirty:2021 writeback:0
[13853.716688]  slab_reclaimable:5876 slab_unreclaimable:18566
[13853.716688]  mapped:35589 shmem:251 pagetables:1809
[13853.716688]  sec_pagetables:0 bounce:0
[13853.716688]  kernel_misc_reclaimable:0
[13853.716688]  free:1694176 free_pcp:0 free_cma:0
[13853.718420] Node 2 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=1048576kB
[13853.718730] Node 2 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB
[13853.719127] 242158 total pagecache pages
[13853.719310] 0 pages in swap cache
[13853.719441] Free swap  = 8142844kB
[13853.719583] Total swap = 8143868kB
[13853.719731] 2097019 pages RAM
[13853.719890] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly
[13853.720155] 60814 pages reserved
[13853.720278] 0 pages cma reserved
[13853.720393] 0 pages hwpoisoned
[13853.720494] Tasks state (memory values in pages):
[13853.720686] [  pid  ]   uid  tgid total_vm      rss rss_anon rss_file rss_shmem pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name
[13853.721214] [    718]     0   718    40965    29598      256    29342         0   368640        0          -250 systemd-journal
<...snip...>
[13853.747190] [ 274715]     0 274715     8520     1731      879      852         0    73728        0             0 (udev-worker)
[13853.747561] [ 274743]     0 274743      617      384        0      384         0    45056        0             0 consume_activit
[13853.748099] [ 274744]     0 274744      617      281        0      281         0    45056        0             0 consume_activit
[13853.748479] [ 274745]     0 274745     2369      954      128      826         0    61440        0             0 daxctl
[13853.748885] [ 274746]     0 274746    33386      667      320      347         0    49152        0             0 consume_std_pag
<...snip...>
[13853.755653] [ 274808]     0 274808     3534      251       32      219         0    61440        0             0 systemctl
[13853.756151] oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY,nodemask=2,cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-2,global_oom,task_memcg=/system.slice/rsyslog.service,task=rsyslogd,pid=274557,uid=0
[13853.756791] Out of memory: Killed process 274557 (rsyslogd) total-vm:957964kB, anon-rss:640kB, file-rss:46496kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:1512kB oom_score_adj:0
[13853.758192] pagefault_out_of_memory: 4055 callbacks suppressed
[13853.758243] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.758865] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.759319] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.759564] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.759779] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.760128] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.760361] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.760588] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.760794] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.761187] Huh VM_FAULT_OOM leaked out to the #PF handler. Retrying PF
[13853.774166] Demotion targets for Node 0: null
[13853.774478] Demotion targets for Node 1: null



> 
> This oom-killed was triggered by allocating memory path of our own testing process which was bound to node2.
> 
> So I expect,
> - our own tes process failed to allocate memory from node2 which is being hot-removed is acceptable.
> - oom-killer should not be invoked to kill processes other than running on node2.
> 
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/6a07125f-e720-404c-b2f9-e55f3f166e85@fujitsu.com/
> 
> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@...itsu.com>
>>> ---
>>>   include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |  6 ++++++
>>>   mm/memory_hotplug.c            | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   mm/page_alloc.c                |  6 ++++++
>>>   3 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>> index 7a9ff464608d..0ca804215e11 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>>> @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>>>   extern int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size);
>>>   extern void __remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size);
>>>   extern int offline_and_remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size);
>>> +bool is_offlining_node(nodemask_t nodes);
>>>   #else
>>>   static inline void try_offline_node(int nid) {}
>>> @@ -348,6 +349,11 @@ static inline int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size)
>>>   }
>>>   static inline void __remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size) {}
>>> +
>>> +static inline bool is_offlining_node(nodemask_t nodes)
>>> +{
>>> +    return false;
>>> +}
>>>   #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
>>>   #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>>> index 431b1f6753c0..da3982751ba9 100644
>>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>>> @@ -1938,6 +1938,22 @@ static int count_system_ram_pages_cb(unsigned long start_pfn,
>>>       return 0;
>>>   }
>>> +static nodemask_t offlining_node = NODE_MASK_NONE;
>>> +
>>> +bool is_offlining_node(nodemask_t nodes)
>>> +{
>>> +    return nodes_equal(offlining_node, nodes);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void offline_pages_start(int node)
>>> +{
>>> +    node_set(node, offlining_node);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static void offline_pages_end(void)
>>> +{
>>> +    offlining_node = NODE_MASK_NONE;
>>> +}
>>>   /*
>>>    * Must be called with mem_hotplug_lock in write mode.
>>>    */
>>> @@ -1991,6 +2007,7 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>>>           goto failed_removal;
>>>       }
>>> +    offline_pages_start(node);
>>>       /*
>>>        * Disable pcplists so that page isolation cannot race with freeing
>>>        * in a way that pages from isolated pageblock are left on pcplists.
>>> @@ -2107,6 +2124,8 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>>>       memory_notify(MEM_OFFLINE, &arg);
>>>       remove_pfn_range_from_zone(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>>> +    offline_pages_end();
>>> +
>>>       return 0;
>>>   failed_removal_isolated:
>>> @@ -2121,6 +2140,8 @@ int __ref offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>>>            (unsigned long long) start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
>>>            ((unsigned long long) end_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1,
>>>            reason);
>>> +
>>> +    offline_pages_end();
>>>       return ret;
>>>   }
>>> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> index 1780df31d5f5..acdab6b114a5 100644
>>> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>>> @@ -3563,6 +3563,12 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>>>       if (page)
>>>           goto out;
>>> +    /* hot-remove is on-going, it generally fails to allocate memory from
>>> +     * the being removed memory node. Leave it alone.
>>> +     */
>>> +    if (is_offlining_node(*ac->nodemask))
>>> +        goto out;
>>> +
>>>       /* Coredumps can quickly deplete all memory reserves */
>>>       if (current->flags & PF_DUMPCORE)
>>>           goto out;
>>> -- 
>>> 2.29.2
>>>
>>

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