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Message-Id: <D2CEBE80-E29A-4D63-8028-4F41A1F8B7B4@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:28:52 +0530
From: Venkat <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com>
Cc: tj@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        songmuchun@...edance.com, shakeelb@...gle.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        roman.gushchin@...ux.dev, mhocko@...e.com,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, riteshh@...ux.ibm.com,
        ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re:  [linux-next20250911]Kernel OOPs while running generic/256 on
 Pmem device



> On 15 Sep 2025, at 11:47 PM, Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM Venkat <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13 Sep 2025, at 8:18 AM, Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Does this fix make sense to you?
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> index d0dfaa0ccaba..ed24dcece56a 100644
>>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> @@ -3945,9 +3945,10 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_free(struct
>>> cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>>>                * Not necessary to wait for wb completion which might
>>> cause task hung,
>>>                * only used to free resources. See
>>> memcg_cgwb_waitq_callback_fn().
>>>                */
>>> -               __add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wait->done.waitq, &wait->wq_entry);
>>>               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&wait->done.cnt))
>>> -                       wake_up_all(wait->done.waitq);
>>> +                       kfree(wait);
>>> +               else
>>> +                       __add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wait->done.waitq,
>>> &wait->wq_entry);;
>>>       }
>>> #endif
>>>       if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && !cgroup_memory_nosocket)
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Thanks for the fix. This is fixing the reported issue.
> 
> Thanks for your testing and feedback.
>> 
>> While sending out the patch please add below tag as well.
>> 
>> Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Sure. That's how it should be.
> 
> Could you please try again with the following patch? The previous one
> might have caused a memory leak and had race conditions. I can’t
> reproduce it locally...
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 80257dba30f8..35da16928599 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3940,6 +3940,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_free(struct
> cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>        int __maybe_unused i;
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
> +       spin_lock(&memcg_cgwb_frn_waitq.lock);
>        for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT; i++) {
>                struct cgwb_frn_wait *wait = memcg->cgwb_frn[i].wait;
> 
> @@ -3948,9 +3949,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_free(struct
> cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>                 * only used to free resources. See
> memcg_cgwb_waitq_callback_fn().
>                 */
>                __add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wait->done.waitq, &wait->wq_entry);
> -               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&wait->done.cnt))
> -                       wake_up_all(wait->done.waitq);
> +               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&wait->done.cnt)) {
> +                       list_del(&wait->wq_entry.entry);
> +                       kfree(wait);
> +               }
>        }
> +       spin_unlock(&memcg_cgwb_frn_waitq.lock);
> #endif
>        if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && !cgroup_memory_nosocket)
>                static_branch_dec(&memcg_sockets_enabled_key);
> 

Hello,

I tried this patch on the two on my CI nodes, and tests passed. Reported issue is fixed with this.

Regards,
Venkat.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Venkat.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM Venkat <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 Sep 2025, at 10:51 AM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Greetings!!!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> IBM CI has reported a kernel crash, while running generic/256 test case on pmem device from xfstests suite on linux-next20250911 kernel.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> xfstests: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git
>>>>> 
>>>>> local.config:
>>>>> 
>>>>> [xfs_dax]
>>>>> export RECREATE_TEST_DEV=true
>>>>> export TEST_DEV=/dev/pmem0
>>>>> export TEST_DIR=/mnt/test_pmem
>>>>> export SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/pmem0.1
>>>>> export SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/scratch_pmem
>>>>> export MKFS_OPTIONS="-m reflink=0 -b size=65536 -s size=512"
>>>>> export FSTYP=xfs
>>>>> export MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o dax"
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Test case: generic/256
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Traces:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> [  163.371929] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>>> [  163.371936] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29!
>>>>> [  163.371946] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
>>>>> [  163.371954] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix  SMP NR_CPUS=8192 NUMA pSeries
>>>>> [  163.371965] Modules linked in: xfs nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack bonding tls nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 rfkill ip_set nf_tables nfnetlink sunrpc pseries_rng vmx_crypto dax_pmem fuse ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 nd_pmem papr_scm sd_mod libnvdimm sg ibmvscsi ibmveth scsi_transport_srp pseries_wdt
>>>>> [  163.372127] CPU: 22 UID: 0 PID: 130 Comm: kworker/22:0 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17.0-rc5-next-20250911 #1 VOLUNTARY
>>>>> [  163.372142] Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX Power11 (architected) 0x820200 0xf000007 of:IBM,FW1110.01 (NH1110_069) hv:phyp pSeries
>>>>> [  163.372155] Workqueue: cgroup_free css_free_rwork_fn
>>>>> [  163.372169] NIP:  c000000000d051d4 LR: c000000000d051d0 CTR: 0000000000000000
>>>>> [  163.372176] REGS: c00000000ba079b0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted (6.17.0-rc5-next-20250911)
>>>>> [  163.372183] MSR:  800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 28000000  XER: 00000006
>>>>> [  163.372214] CFAR: c0000000002bae9c IRQMASK: 0
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR00: c000000000d051d0 c00000000ba07c50 c00000000230a600 0000000000000075
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR04: 0000000000000004 0000000000000001 c000000000507e2c 0000000000000001
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR08: c000000d0cb87d13 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 a80e000000000000
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR12: c00e0001a1970fa2 c000000d0ddec700 c000000000208e58 c000000107b5e190
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR16: c00000000d3e5d08 c00000000b71cf78 c00000000d3e5d05 c00000000b71cf30
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR20: c00000000b71cf08 c00000000b71cf10 c000000019f58588 c000000004704bc8
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR24: c000000107b5e100 c000000004704bd0 0000000000000003 c000000004704bd0
>>>>> [  163.372214] GPR28: c000000004704bc8 c000000019f585a8 c000000019f53da8 c000000004704bc8
>>>>> [  163.372315] NIP [c000000000d051d4] __list_add_valid_or_report+0x124/0x188
>>>>> [  163.372326] LR [c000000000d051d0] __list_add_valid_or_report+0x120/0x188
>>>>> [  163.372335] Call Trace:
>>>>> [  163.372339] [c00000000ba07c50] [c000000000d051d0] __list_add_valid_or_report+0x120/0x188 (unreliable)
>>>>> [  163.372352] [c00000000ba07ce0] [c000000000834280] mem_cgroup_css_free+0xa0/0x27c
>>>>> [  163.372363] [c00000000ba07d50] [c0000000003ba198] css_free_rwork_fn+0xd0/0x59c
>>>>> [  163.372374] [c00000000ba07da0] [c0000000001f5d60] process_one_work+0x41c/0x89c
>>>>> [  163.372385] [c00000000ba07eb0] [c0000000001f76c0] worker_thread+0x558/0x848
>>>>> [  163.372394] [c00000000ba07f80] [c000000000209038] kthread+0x1e8/0x230
>>>>> [  163.372406] [c00000000ba07fe0] [c00000000000ded8] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18
>>>>> [  163.372416] Code: 4b9b1099 60000000 7f63db78 4bae8245 60000000 e8bf0008 3c62ff88 7fe6fb78 7fc4f378 38637d40 4b5b5c89 60000000 <0fe00000> 60000000 60000000 7f83e378
>>>>> [  163.372453] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
>>>>> [  163.380581] pstore: backend (nvram) writing error (-1)
>>>>> [  163.380593]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> If you happen to fix this issue, please add below tag.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@...ux.ibm.com>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Venkat.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> After reverting the below commit, issue is not seen.
>>>> 
>>>> commit 61bbf51e75df1a94cf6736e311cb96aeb79826a8
>>>> Author: Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com>
>>>> Date:   Thu Aug 28 04:45:57 2025 +0800
>>>> 
>>>>   memcg: don't wait writeback completion when release memcg
>>>>        Recently, we encountered the following hung task:
>>>>        INFO: task kworker/4:1:1334558 blocked for more than 1720 seconds.
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025] Workqueue: cgroup_destroy css_free_rwork_fn
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025] Call Trace:
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  __schedule+0x934/0xe10
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  ? complete+0x3b/0x50
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  ? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  schedule+0x40/0xb0
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  wb_wait_for_completion+0x52/0x80
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  mem_cgroup_css_free+0x22/0x1b0
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  css_free_rwork_fn+0x42/0x380
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  process_one_work+0x1a2/0x360
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  worker_thread+0x30/0x390
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  kthread+0x110/0x130
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x40/0x40
>>>>   [Wed Jul 30 17:47:45 2025]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
>>>>        The direct cause is that memcg spends a long time waiting for dirty page
>>>>   writeback of foreign memcgs during release.
>>>>        The root causes are:
>>>>       a. The wb may have multiple writeback tasks, containing millions
>>>>          of dirty pages, as shown below:
>>>>>>> for work in list_for_each_entry("struct wb_writeback_work", \
>>>>                                       wb.work_list.address_of_(), "list"):
>>>>   ...     print(work.nr_pages, work.reason, hex(work))
>>>>   ...
>>>>   900628  WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969e8d956b40
>>>>   1116521 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff9698332a9540
>>>>   1275228 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969d9b444bc0
>>>>   1099673 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969f0954d6c0
>>>>   1351522 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969e76713340
>>>>   2567437 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff9694ae208400
>>>>   2954033 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff96a22d62cbc0
>>>>   3008860 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969eee8ce3c0
>>>>   3337932 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff9695b45156c0
>>>>   3348916 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff96a22c7a4f40
>>>>   3345363 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969e5d872800
>>>>   3333581 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969efd0f4600
>>>>   3382225 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969e770edcc0
>>>>   3418770 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff96a252ceea40
>>>>   3387648 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff96a3bda86340
>>>>   3385420 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969efc6eb280
>>>>   3418730 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff96a348ab1040
>>>>   3426155 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969d90beac00
>>>>   3397995 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff96a2d7288800
>>>>   3293095 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969dab423240
>>>>   3293595 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969c765ff400
>>>>   3199511 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969a72d5e680
>>>>   3085016 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969f0455e000
>>>>   3035712 WB_REASON_FOREIGN_FLUSH 0xffff969d9bbf4b00
>>>>            b. The writeback might severely throttled by wbt, with a speed
>>>>          possibly less than 100kb/s, leading to a very long writeback time.
>>>>>>> wb.write_bandwidth
>>>>   (unsigned long)24
>>>>>>> wb.write_bandwidth
>>>>   (unsigned long)13
>>>>        The wb_wait_for_completion() here is probably only used to prevent
>>>>   use-after-free.  Therefore, we manage 'done' separately and automatically
>>>>   free it.
>>>>        This allows us to remove wb_wait_for_completion() while preventing the
>>>>   use-after-free issue.
>>>>    com
>>>>   Fixes: 97b27821b485 ("writeback, memcg: Implement foreign dirty flushing")
>>>>   Signed-off-by: Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com>
>>>>   Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
>>>>   Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
>>>>   Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>
>>>>   Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
>>>>   Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
>>>>   Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
>>>>   Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
>>>>   Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Venkat.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com>
>> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Julian Sun <sunjunchao@...edance.com>



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