Re: Deadlock possibly caused by too_many_isolated.

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:13 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:06:40AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:54:54AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:37:35AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:23:34AM +0800, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:30:18 -0400
> > > > > Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On 09/14/2010 07:11 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Index: linux-2.6.32-SLE11-SP1/mm/vmscan.c
> > > > > > > ===================================================================
> > > > > > > --- linux-2.6.32-SLE11-SP1.orig/mm/vmscan.c	2010-09-15 08:37:32.000000000 +1000
> > > > > > > +++ linux-2.6.32-SLE11-SP1/mm/vmscan.c	2010-09-15 08:38:57.000000000 +1000
> > > > > > > @@ -1106,6 +1106,11 @@ static unsigned long shrink_inactive_lis
> > > > > > >   		/* We are about to die and free our memory. Return now. */
> > > > > > >   		if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
> > > > > > >   			return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
> > > > > > > +		if (!(sc->gfp_mask&  __GFP_IO))
> > > > > > > +			/* Not allowed to do IO, so mustn't wait
> > > > > > > +			 * on processes that might try to
> > > > > > > +			 */
> > > > > > > +			return SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX;
> > > > > > >   	}
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >   	/*
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Close.  We must also be sure that processes without __GFP_FS
> > > > > > set in their gfp_mask do not wait on processes that do have
> > > > > > __GFP_FS set.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Considering how many times we've run into a bug like this,
> > > > > > I'm kicking myself for not having thought of it :(
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > So maybe this?  I've added the test for __GFP_FS, and moved the test before
> > > > > the congestion_wait on the basis that we really want to get back up the stack
> > > > > and try the mempool ASAP.
> > > > 
> > > > The patch may well fail the !__GFP_IO page allocation and then
> > > > quickly exhaust the mempool.
> > > > 
> > > > Another approach may to let too_many_isolated() use much higher
> > > > thresholds for !__GFP_IO/FS and lower ones for __GFP_IO/FS. ie. to
> > > > allow at least nr2 NOIO/FS tasks to be blocked independent of the
> > > > IO/FS ones.  Since NOIO vmscans typically completes fast, it will then
> > > > very hard to accumulate enough NOIO processes to be actually blocked.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > >                   IO/FS tasks                NOIO/FS tasks           full
> > > >                   block here                 block here              LRU size
> > > > |-----------------|--------------------------|-----------------------|
> > > > |      nr1        |           nr2            |
> > > 
> > > How about this fix? We may need very high threshold for NOIO/NOFS to
> > > prevent possible regressions.
> > 
> > Plus __GFP_WAIT..
> 
> Ah sorry! __GFP_WAIT cannot afford to wait by definition..
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 225a759..becc63a 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1135,10 +1135,14 @@ static int too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone, int file,
>  		struct scan_control *sc)
>  {
>  	unsigned long inactive, isolated;
> +	int ratio;
>  
>  	if (current_is_kswapd())
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
> +		return 0;
> +
it appears __GFP_WAIT allocation doesn't go to direct reclaim.

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