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Hi All, Is any more comments of this version? Thanks Alex 在 2020/11/5 下午4:55, Alex Shi 写道: > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > v21-0007. > > This patchset followed 2 memcg VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE patches which were > added to -mm tree yesterday. > > Many thanks for line by line review by Hugh Dickins, Alexander Duyck and > Johannes Weiner. > > So now this patchset includes 3 parts: > 1, some code cleanup and minimum optimization as a preparation. > 2, use TestCleanPageLRU as page isolation's precondition. > 3, replace per node lru_lock with per memcg per node lru_lock. > > Current lru_lock is one for each of node, pgdat->lru_lock, that guard for > lru lists, but now we had moved the lru lists into memcg for long time. Still > using per node lru_lock is clearly unscalable, pages on each of memcgs have > to compete each others for a whole lru_lock. This patchset try to use per > lruvec/memcg lru_lock to repleace per node lru lock to guard lru lists, make > it scalable for memcgs and get performance gain. > > Currently lru_lock still guards both lru list and page's lru bit, that's ok. > but if we want to use specific lruvec lock on the page, we need to pin down > the page's lruvec/memcg during locking. Just taking lruvec lock first may be > undermined by the page's memcg charge/migration. To fix this problem, we could > take out the page's lru bit clear and use it as pin down action to block the > memcg changes. That's the reason for new atomic func TestClearPageLRU. > So now isolating a page need both actions: TestClearPageLRU and hold the > lru_lock. > > The typical usage of this is isolate_migratepages_block() in compaction.c > we have to take lru bit before lru lock, that serialized the page isolation > in memcg page charge/migration which will change page's lruvec and new > lru_lock in it. > > The above solution suggested by Johannes Weiner, and based on his new memcg > charge path, then have this patchset. (Hugh Dickins tested and contributed much > code from compaction fix to general code polish, thanks a lot!). > > Daniel Jordan's testing show 62% improvement on modified readtwice case > on his 2P * 10 core * 2 HT broadwell box on v18, which has no much different > with this v20. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200915165807.kpp7uhiw7l3loofu@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com/ > > Thanks Hugh Dickins and Konstantin Khlebnikov, they both brought this > idea 8 years ago, and others who give comments as well: Daniel Jordan, > Mel Gorman, Shakeel Butt, Matthew Wilcox, Alexander Duyck etc. > > Thanks for Testing support from Intel 0day and Rong Chen, Fengguang Wu, > and Yun Wang. Hugh Dickins also shared his kbuild-swap case. Thanks! > > > Alex Shi (16): > mm/thp: move lru_add_page_tail func to huge_memory.c > mm/thp: use head for head page in lru_add_page_tail > mm/thp: Simplify lru_add_page_tail() > mm/thp: narrow lru locking > mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary lruvec adding > mm/rmap: stop store reordering issue on page->mapping > mm/memcg: add debug checking in lock_page_memcg > mm/swap.c: fold vm event PGROTATED into pagevec_move_tail_fn > mm/lru: move lock into lru_note_cost > mm/vmscan: remove lruvec reget in move_pages_to_lru > mm/mlock: remove lru_lock on TestClearPageMlocked > mm/mlock: remove __munlock_isolate_lru_page > mm/lru: introduce TestClearPageLRU > mm/compaction: do page isolation first in compaction > mm/swap.c: serialize memcg changes in pagevec_lru_move_fn > mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock > > Alexander Duyck (1): > mm/lru: introduce the relock_page_lruvec function > > Hugh Dickins (2): > mm: page_idle_get_page() does not need lru_lock > mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock > > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst | 15 +- > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 21 +-- > Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 22 +-- > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 110 +++++++++++ > include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +- > include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +- > include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 + > include/linux/swap.h | 4 +- > mm/compaction.c | 94 +++++++--- > mm/filemap.c | 4 +- > mm/huge_memory.c | 45 +++-- > mm/memcontrol.c | 79 +++++++- > mm/mlock.c | 63 ++----- > mm/mmzone.c | 1 + > mm/page_alloc.c | 1 - > mm/page_idle.c | 4 - > mm/rmap.c | 11 +- > mm/swap.c | 208 ++++++++------------- > mm/vmscan.c | 207 ++++++++++---------- > mm/workingset.c | 2 - > 21 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-) >
Hi Andrew, With all patches are acked-by Hugh and Johannes, and full testing from LKP, is this patchset ready for more testing on linux-next? or anything still need be improved? Thanks Alex 在 2020/11/5 下午4:55, Alex Shi 写道: > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > v21-0007. > > This patchset followed 2 memcg VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE patches which were > added to -mm tree yesterday. > > Many thanks for line by line review by Hugh Dickins, Alexander Duyck and > Johannes Weiner. > > So now this patchset includes 3 parts: > 1, some code cleanup and minimum optimization as a preparation. > 2, use TestCleanPageLRU as page isolation's precondition. > 3, replace per node lru_lock with per memcg per node lru_lock. > > Current lru_lock is one for each of node, pgdat->lru_lock, that guard for > lru lists, but now we had moved the lru lists into memcg for long time. Still > using per node lru_lock is clearly unscalable, pages on each of memcgs have > to compete each others for a whole lru_lock. This patchset try to use per > lruvec/memcg lru_lock to repleace per node lru lock to guard lru lists, make > it scalable for memcgs and get performance gain. > > Currently lru_lock still guards both lru list and page's lru bit, that's ok. > but if we want to use specific lruvec lock on the page, we need to pin down > the page's lruvec/memcg during locking. Just taking lruvec lock first may be > undermined by the page's memcg charge/migration. To fix this problem, we could > take out the page's lru bit clear and use it as pin down action to block the > memcg changes. That's the reason for new atomic func TestClearPageLRU. > So now isolating a page need both actions: TestClearPageLRU and hold the > lru_lock. > > The typical usage of this is isolate_migratepages_block() in compaction.c > we have to take lru bit before lru lock, that serialized the page isolation > in memcg page charge/migration which will change page's lruvec and new > lru_lock in it. > > The above solution suggested by Johannes Weiner, and based on his new memcg > charge path, then have this patchset. (Hugh Dickins tested and contributed much > code from compaction fix to general code polish, thanks a lot!). > > Daniel Jordan's testing show 62% improvement on modified readtwice case > on his 2P * 10 core * 2 HT broadwell box on v18, which has no much different > with this v20. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200915165807.kpp7uhiw7l3loofu@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com/ > > Thanks Hugh Dickins and Konstantin Khlebnikov, they both brought this > idea 8 years ago, and others who give comments as well: Daniel Jordan, > Mel Gorman, Shakeel Butt, Matthew Wilcox, Alexander Duyck etc. > > Thanks for Testing support from Intel 0day and Rong Chen, Fengguang Wu, > and Yun Wang. Hugh Dickins also shared his kbuild-swap case. Thanks!
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:55:30 +0800 Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote: > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > v21-0007. I assume the consensus on this series is 'not yet"? Also, did https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000000340a105b49441d3@google.com get resolved?
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:55:30 +0800 Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote: > > > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > > v21-0007. > > I assume the consensus on this series is 'not yet"? Speaking for my part in the consensus: I don't share that assumption, the series by now is well-baked and well reviewed by enough people over more than enough versions, has been completely untroublesome since it entered mmotm/linux-next a month ago, not even any performance bleats from 0day, and has nothing to gain from any further delay. I think it was my fault that v20 didn't get into 5.10: I'd said "not yet" when you first tried a part of v19 or earlier in mmotm, and by the time I'd completed review it was too late in the cycle; Johannes and Vlastimil have gone over it since then, and I'd be glad to see it go ahead into 5.11 very soon. Silence on v21 meaning that it's good. Various of us have improvements or cleanups in mind or in private tree, but nothing to hold back what's already there. > > Also, did > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000000340a105b49441d3@google.com get > resolved? Alex found enough precedents for that, before inclusion of his series, so it should not discourage from moving his series forward. I have ignored that syzreport until now, but will take a quick try at the repro now, to see if I'm inspired - probably not, but we'll see. Hugh
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:16:34 -0800 (PST) Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:55:30 +0800 Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> wrote: > > > > > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > > > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > > > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > > > v21-0007. > > > > I assume the consensus on this series is 'not yet"? > > Speaking for my part in the consensus: I don't share that assumption, OK, thanks, I'll include it in patch-bomb #2, Tues or Weds.
On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 16:55 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > v21-0007. > > This patchset followed 2 memcg VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE patches which were > added to -mm tree yesterday. > > Many thanks for line by line review by Hugh Dickins, Alexander Duyck and > Johannes Weiner. Given the troublesome history of this patchset, and had been put into linux-next recently, as well as it touched both THP and mlock. Is it a good idea to suspect this patchset introducing some races and a spontaneous crash with some mlock memory presume? [10392.154328][T23803] huge_memory: total_mapcount: 5, page_count(): 6 [10392.154835][T23803] page:00000000eb7725ad refcount:6 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7fff72a0 pfn:0x20023760 [10392.154865][T23803] head:00000000eb7725ad order:5 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 [10392.154889][T23803] anon flags: 0x87fff800009000d(locked|uptodate|dirty|head|swapbacked) [10392.154908][T23803] raw: 087fff800009000d 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 c0002016ff5e0849 [10392.154933][T23803] raw: 000000007fff72a0 0000000000000000 00000006ffffffff c0002014eb676000 [10392.154965][T23803] page dumped because: total_mapcount(head) > 0 [10392.154987][T23803] pages's memcg:c0002014eb676000 [10392.155023][T23803] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [10392.155042][T23803] kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2767! [10392.155064][T23803] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] [10392.155084][T23803] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=256 NUMA PowerNV [10392.155114][T23803] Modules linked in: loop kvm_hv kvm ip_tables x_tables sd_mod bnx2x ahci tg3 libahci mdio libphy libata firmware_class dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [10392.155185][T23803] CPU: 44 PID: 23803 Comm: ranbug Not tainted 5.11.0-rc2-next-20210105 #2 [10392.155217][T23803] NIP: c0000000003b5218 LR: c0000000003b5214 CTR: 0000000000000000 [10392.155247][T23803] REGS: c00000001a8d6ee0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (5.11.0-rc2-next-20210105) [10392.155279][T23803] MSR: 9000000002823033 <SF,HV,VEC,VSX,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28422222 XER: 00000000 [10392.155314][T23803] CFAR: c0000000003135ac IRQMASK: 1 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR00: c0000000003b5214 c00000001a8d7180 c000000007f70b00 000000000000001e [10392.155314][T23803] GPR04: c000000000eacd38 0000000000000004 0000000000000027 c000001ffe8a7218 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR08: 0000000000000023 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c000000007eacfc8 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR12: 0000000000002000 c000001ffffcda00 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR16: c00c0008008dd808 0000000000040000 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR20: c00c0008008dd800 0000000000000020 0000000000000006 0000000000000001 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR24: 0000000000000005 ffffffffffffffff c0002016ff5e0848 0000000000000000 [10392.155314][T23803] GPR28: c0002014eb676e60 c00c0008008dd800 c00000001a8d73a8 c00c0008008dd800 [10392.155533][T23803] NIP [c0000000003b5218] split_huge_page_to_list+0xa38/0xa40 [10392.155558][T23803] LR [c0000000003b5214] split_huge_page_to_list+0xa34/0xa40 [10392.155579][T23803] Call Trace: [10392.155595][T23803] [c00000001a8d7180] [c0000000003b5214] split_huge_page_to_list+0xa34/0xa40 (unreliable) [10392.155630][T23803] [c00000001a8d7270] [c0000000002dd378] shrink_page_list+0x1568/0x1b00 shrink_page_list at mm/vmscan.c:1251 (discriminator 1) [10392.155655][T23803] [c00000001a8d7380] [c0000000002df798] shrink_inactive_list+0x228/0x5e0 [10392.155678][T23803] [c00000001a8d7450] [c0000000002e0858] shrink_lruvec+0x2b8/0x6f0 shrink_lruvec at mm/vmscan.c:2462 [10392.155710][T23803] [c00000001a8d7590] [c0000000002e0fd8] shrink_node+0x348/0x970 [10392.155742][T23803] [c00000001a8d7660] [c0000000002e1728] do_try_to_free_pages+0x128/0x560 [10392.155765][T23803] [c00000001a8d7710] [c0000000002e3b78] try_to_free_pages+0x198/0x500 [10392.155780][T23803] [c00000001a8d77e0] [c000000000356f5c] __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.112+0x64c/0x1380 [10392.155795][T23803] [c00000001a8d79c0] [c000000000358170] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4e0/0x590 [10392.155830][T23803] [c00000001a8d7a50] [c000000000381fb8] alloc_pages_vma+0xb8/0x340 [10392.155854][T23803] [c00000001a8d7ac0] [c000000000324fe8] handle_mm_fault+0xf38/0x1bd0 [10392.155887][T23803] [c00000001a8d7ba0] [c000000000316cd4] __get_user_pages+0x434/0x7d0 [10392.155920][T23803] [c00000001a8d7cb0] [c0000000003197d0] __mm_populate+0xe0/0x290 __mm_populate at mm/gup.c:1459 [10392.155952][T23803] [c00000001a8d7d20] [c00000000032d5a0] do_mlock+0x180/0x360 do_mlock at mm/mlock.c:688 [10392.155975][T23803] [c00000001a8d7d90] [c00000000032d954] sys_mlock+0x24/0x40 [10392.155999][T23803] [c00000001a8d7db0] [c00000000002f510] system_call_exception+0x170/0x280 [10392.156032][T23803] [c00000001a8d7e10] [c00000000000d7c8] system_call_common+0xe8/0x218 [10392.156065][T23803] Instruction dump: [10392.156082][T23803] e93d0008 71290001 41820014 7fe3fb78 38800000 4bf5e36d 60000000 3c82f8b7 [10392.156121][T23803] 7fa3eb78 38846b70 4bf5e359 60000000 <0fe00000> 60000000 3c4c07bc 3842b8e0 [10392.156160][T23803] ---[ end trace 2e3423677d4f91f3 ]--- [10392.312793][T23803] [10393.312808][T23803] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception [10394.723608][T23803] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]--- > > So now this patchset includes 3 parts: > 1, some code cleanup and minimum optimization as a preparation. > 2, use TestCleanPageLRU as page isolation's precondition. > 3, replace per node lru_lock with per memcg per node lru_lock. > > Current lru_lock is one for each of node, pgdat->lru_lock, that guard for > lru lists, but now we had moved the lru lists into memcg for long time. Still > using per node lru_lock is clearly unscalable, pages on each of memcgs have > to compete each others for a whole lru_lock. This patchset try to use per > lruvec/memcg lru_lock to repleace per node lru lock to guard lru lists, make > it scalable for memcgs and get performance gain. > > Currently lru_lock still guards both lru list and page's lru bit, that's ok. > but if we want to use specific lruvec lock on the page, we need to pin down > the page's lruvec/memcg during locking. Just taking lruvec lock first may be > undermined by the page's memcg charge/migration. To fix this problem, we could > take out the page's lru bit clear and use it as pin down action to block the > memcg changes. That's the reason for new atomic func TestClearPageLRU. > So now isolating a page need both actions: TestClearPageLRU and hold the > lru_lock. > > The typical usage of this is isolate_migratepages_block() in compaction.c > we have to take lru bit before lru lock, that serialized the page isolation > in memcg page charge/migration which will change page's lruvec and new > lru_lock in it. > > The above solution suggested by Johannes Weiner, and based on his new memcg > charge path, then have this patchset. (Hugh Dickins tested and contributed > much > code from compaction fix to general code polish, thanks a lot!). > > Daniel Jordan's testing show 62% improvement on modified readtwice case > on his 2P * 10 core * 2 HT broadwell box on v18, which has no much different > with this v20. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200915165807.kpp7uhiw7l3loofu@ca-dmjordan1.us.oracle.com/ > > Thanks Hugh Dickins and Konstantin Khlebnikov, they both brought this > idea 8 years ago, and others who give comments as well: Daniel Jordan, > Mel Gorman, Shakeel Butt, Matthew Wilcox, Alexander Duyck etc. > > Thanks for Testing support from Intel 0day and Rong Chen, Fengguang Wu, > and Yun Wang. Hugh Dickins also shared his kbuild-swap case. Thanks! > > > Alex Shi (16): > mm/thp: move lru_add_page_tail func to huge_memory.c > mm/thp: use head for head page in lru_add_page_tail > mm/thp: Simplify lru_add_page_tail() > mm/thp: narrow lru locking > mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary lruvec adding > mm/rmap: stop store reordering issue on page->mapping > mm/memcg: add debug checking in lock_page_memcg > mm/swap.c: fold vm event PGROTATED into pagevec_move_tail_fn > mm/lru: move lock into lru_note_cost > mm/vmscan: remove lruvec reget in move_pages_to_lru > mm/mlock: remove lru_lock on TestClearPageMlocked > mm/mlock: remove __munlock_isolate_lru_page > mm/lru: introduce TestClearPageLRU > mm/compaction: do page isolation first in compaction > mm/swap.c: serialize memcg changes in pagevec_lru_move_fn > mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock > > Alexander Duyck (1): > mm/lru: introduce the relock_page_lruvec function > > Hugh Dickins (2): > mm: page_idle_get_page() does not need lru_lock > mm/lru: revise the comments of lru_lock > > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst | 15 +- > Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 21 +-- > Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 22 +-- > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 110 +++++++++++ > include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +- > include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +- > include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 + > include/linux/swap.h | 4 +- > mm/compaction.c | 94 +++++++--- > mm/filemap.c | 4 +- > mm/huge_memory.c | 45 +++-- > mm/memcontrol.c | 79 +++++++- > mm/mlock.c | 63 ++----- > mm/mmzone.c | 1 + > mm/page_alloc.c | 1 - > mm/page_idle.c | 4 - > mm/rmap.c | 11 +- > mm/swap.c | 208 ++++++++---------- > --- > mm/vmscan.c | 207 ++++++++++---------- > mm/workingset.c | 2 - > 21 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-) >
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 16:55 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > > v21-0007. > > > > This patchset followed 2 memcg VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE patches which were > > added to -mm tree yesterday. > > > > Many thanks for line by line review by Hugh Dickins, Alexander Duyck and > > Johannes Weiner. > > Given the troublesome history of this patchset, and had been put into linux-next > recently, as well as it touched both THP and mlock. Is it a good idea to suspect > this patchset introducing some races and a spontaneous crash with some mlock > memory presume? This has already been merged into the linus tree. Were you able to get a similar crash on the latest upstream kernel as well?
On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 11:42 -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 16:55 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > > > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > > > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > > > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > > > v21-0007. > > > > > > This patchset followed 2 memcg VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE patches which were > > > added to -mm tree yesterday. > > > > > > Many thanks for line by line review by Hugh Dickins, Alexander Duyck and > > > Johannes Weiner. > > > > Given the troublesome history of this patchset, and had been put into linux- > > next > > recently, as well as it touched both THP and mlock. Is it a good idea to > > suspect > > this patchset introducing some races and a spontaneous crash with some mlock > > memory presume? > > This has already been merged into the linus tree. Were you able to get > a similar crash on the latest upstream kernel as well? No, I seldom test the mainline those days. Before the vacations, I have tested linux-next up to something like 12/10 which did not include this patchset IIRC and never saw any crash like this. I am still trying to figure out how to reproduce it fast, so I can try a revert to confirm.
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Qian Cai wrote: > On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 11:42 -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:30 AM Qian Cai <qcai@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 16:55 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > > > > This version rebase on next/master 20201104, with much of Johannes's > > > > Acks and some changes according to Johannes comments. And add a new patch > > > > v21-0006-mm-rmap-stop-store-reordering-issue-on-page-mapp.patch to support > > > > v21-0007. > > > > > > > > This patchset followed 2 memcg VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE patches which were > > > > added to -mm tree yesterday. > > > > > > > > Many thanks for line by line review by Hugh Dickins, Alexander Duyck and > > > > Johannes Weiner. > > > > > > Given the troublesome history of this patchset, and had been put into linux- > > > next > > > recently, as well as it touched both THP and mlock. Is it a good idea to > > > suspect > > > this patchset introducing some races and a spontaneous crash with some mlock > > > memory presume? > > > > This has already been merged into the linus tree. Were you able to get > > a similar crash on the latest upstream kernel as well? > > No, I seldom test the mainline those days. Before the vacations, I have tested > linux-next up to something like 12/10 which did not include this patchset IIRC > and never saw any crash like this. I am still trying to figure out how to > reproduce it fast, so I can try a revert to confirm. This patchset went into mmotm 2020-11-16-16-23, so probably linux-next on 2020-11-17: you'll have had three trouble-free weeks testing with it in, so it's not a likely suspect. I haven't looked yet at your report, to think of a more likely suspect: will do. Hugh
On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 13:35 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > This patchset went into mmotm 2020-11-16-16-23, so probably linux-next > on 2020-11-17: you'll have had three trouble-free weeks testing with it > in, so it's not a likely suspect. I haven't looked yet at your report, > to think of a more likely suspect: will do. Probably my memory was bad then. Unfortunately, I had 2 weeks holidays before the Thanksgiving as well. I have tried a few times so far and only been able to reproduce once. Looks nasty...
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Qian Cai wrote: > On Tue, 2021-01-05 at 13:35 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > This patchset went into mmotm 2020-11-16-16-23, so probably linux-next > > on 2020-11-17: you'll have had three trouble-free weeks testing with it > > in, so it's not a likely suspect. I haven't looked yet at your report, > > to think of a more likely suspect: will do. > > Probably my memory was bad then. Unfortunately, I had 2 weeks holidays before > the Thanksgiving as well. I have tried a few times so far and only been able to > reproduce once. Looks nasty... I have not found a likely suspect. What it smells like is a defect in cloning anon_vma during fork, such that mappings of the THP can get added even after all that could be found were unmapped (tree lookup ordering should prevent that). But I've not seen any recent change there. It would be very easily fixed by deleting the whole BUG() block, which is only there as a sanity check for developers: but we would not want to delete it without understanding why it has gone wrong (and would also have to reconsider two related VM_BUG_ON_PAGEs). It is possible that b6769834aac1 ("mm/thp: narrow lru locking") of this patchset has changed the timing and made a pre-existing bug more likely in some situations: it used to hold an lru_lock before that BUG() on total_mapcount(), and now does not; but that's not a lock which should be relevant to the check. When you get more info (or not), please repost the bugstack in a new email thread: this thread is not really useful for pursuing it. Hugh