Re: [PATCH] mm, thp: relax migration wait when failed to get tail page

Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-01T16:49:44Z

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 12:31:41AM +0800, Xu Yu wrote:
> We notice that hung task happens in a conner but practical scenario when
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is enabled, as follows.
>
> Process 0 Process 1 Process 2..Inf
> split_huge_page_to_list
> unmap_page
> split_huge_pmd_address
> __migration_entry_wait(head)
> __migration_entry_wait(tail)
> remap_page (roll back)
> remove_migration_ptes
> rmap_walk_anon
> cond_resched
>
> Where __migration_entry_wait(tail) is occurred in kernel space, e.g.,
> copy_to_user, which will immediately fault again without rescheduling,
> and thus occupy the cpu fully.
>
> When there are too many processes performing __migration_entry_wait on
> tail page, remap_page will never be done after cond_resched.
>
> This relaxes __migration_entry_wait on tail page, thus gives remap_page
> a chance to complete.

I don't like this at all. If only we could call wait_on_page_locked()
without having a reference to the page.

I /think/ the only obstacle to doing that is that Slab may reuse
the PG_locked bit without following the pagecache wakeup protocol.
That wouldn't be a hard thing to change; I think it's only slub that
uses that bit, and it really could use any bit in the page flags.

> Signed-off-by: Gang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index b234c3f3acb7..df2dc39fe566 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -301,8 +301,11 @@ void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
> * is zero; but we must not call put_and_wait_on_page_locked() without
> * a ref. Use get_page_unless_zero(), and just fault again if it fails.
> */
> - if (!get_page_unless_zero(page))
> - goto out;
> + if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
> + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> + cond_resched();
> + return;
> + }
> pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
> put_and_wait_on_page_locked(page, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> return;
> --
> 2.20.1.2432.ga663e714
>
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