Re: [resend] [PATCH 0/3] powerpc/pseries: use H_BLOCK_REMOVE

[Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:51:30 +0200
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> [Resending so everyone is getting the cover letter]
> 
> On very large system we could see soft lockup fired when a process is exiting
> 
> watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#851 stuck for 21s! [forkoff:215523]
> Modules linked in: pseries_rng rng_core xfs raid10 vmx_crypto btrfs libcrc32c xor zstd_decompress zstd_compress xxhash lzo_compress raid6_pq crc32c_vpmsum lpfc crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic crct10dif_common dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_alua autofs4
> CPU: 851 PID: 215523 Comm: forkoff Not tainted 4.17.0 #1
> NIP:  c0000000000b995c LR: c0000000000b8f64 CTR: 000000000000aa18
> REGS: c00006b0645b7610 TRAP: 0901   Not tainted  (4.17.0)
> MSR:  800000010280b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[E]>  CR: 22042082  XER: 00000000
> CFAR: 00000000006cf8f0 SOFTE: 0 
> GPR00: 0010000000000000 c00006b0645b7890 c000000000f99200 0000000000000000 
> GPR04: 8e000001a5a4de58 400249cf1bfd5480 8e000001a5a4de50 400249cf1bfd5480 
> GPR08: 8e000001a5a4de48 400249cf1bfd5480 8e000001a5a4de40 400249cf1bfd5480 
> GPR12: ffffffffffffffff c00000001e690800 
> NIP [c0000000000b995c] plpar_hcall9+0x44/0x7c
> LR [c0000000000b8f64] pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range+0x324/0x3d0
> Call Trace:
> [c00006b0645b7890] [8e000001a5a4dd20] 0x8e000001a5a4dd20 (unreliable)
> [c00006b0645b7a00] [c00000000006d5b0] flush_hash_range+0x60/0x110
> [c00006b0645b7a50] [c000000000072a2c] __flush_tlb_pending+0x4c/0xd0
> [c00006b0645b7a80] [c0000000002eaf44] unmap_page_range+0x984/0xbd0
> [c00006b0645b7bc0] [c0000000002eb594] unmap_vmas+0x84/0x100
> [c00006b0645b7c10] [c0000000002f8afc] exit_mmap+0xac/0x1f0
> [c00006b0645b7cd0] [c0000000000f2638] mmput+0x98/0x1b0
> [c00006b0645b7d00] [c0000000000fc9d0] do_exit+0x330/0xc00
> [c00006b0645b7dc0] [c0000000000fd384] do_group_exit+0x64/0x100
> [c00006b0645b7e00] [c0000000000fd44c] sys_exit_group+0x2c/0x30
> [c00006b0645b7e30] [c00000000000b960] system_call+0x58/0x6c
> Instruction dump:
> 60000000 f8810028 7ca42b78 7cc53378 7ce63b78 7d074378 7d284b78 7d495378 
> e9410060 e9610068 e9810070 44000022 <7d806378> e9810028 f88c0000 f8ac0008
> 
> This happens when removing the PTE by calling the hypervisor using the
> H_BULK_REMOVE call. This call is processing up to 4 PTEs but is doing a
> tlbie for each PTE it is processing. This could lead to long time spent in
> the hypervisor (sometimes up to 4s) and soft lockup being raised because
> the scheduler is not called in zap_pte_range().
> 
> Since the Power7's time, the hypervisor is providing a new hcall
> H_BLOCK_REMOVE allowing processing up to 8 PTEs with one call to
> tlbie. By limiting the amount of tlbie generated, this reduces the time
> spent invalidating the PTEs.

Oh that's a nice feature. I must have an ancient PAPR because I don't
have it. It could be a good project for someone to implement it in KVM
too.

> 
> This hcall requires that the pages are "all within the same naturally
> aligned 8 page virtual address block".
> 
> With this patch series applied, I couldn't see any soft lockup raised on
> the victim LPAR I was running the test one.
> 
> This series is covering both normal pages and huge pages.

Really nice, thanks for working on the problem.

Thanks,
Nick