[ 118/123] mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09T20:48:58Z

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

commit 53a59fc67f97374758e63a9c785891ec62324c81 upstream.

Since commit e303297e6c3a ("mm: extended batches for generic
mmu_gather") we are batching pages to be freed until either
tlb_next_batch cannot allocate a new batch or we are done.

This works just fine most of the time but we can get in troubles with
non-preemptible kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE or CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
on large machines where too aggressive batching might lead to soft
lockups during process exit path (exit_mmap) because there are no
scheduling points down the free_pages_and_swap_cache path and so the
freeing can take long enough to trigger the soft lockup.

The lockup is harmless except when the system is setup to panic on
softlockup which is not that unusual.

The simplest way to work around this issue is to limit the maximum
number of batches in a single mmu_gather. 10k of collected pages should
be safe to prevent from soft lockups (we would have 2ms for one) even if
they are all freed without an explicit scheduling point.

This patch doesn't add any new explicit scheduling points because it
relies on zap_pmd_range during page tables zapping which calls
cond_resched per PMD.

The following lockup has been reported for 3.0 kernel with a huge
process (in order of hundreds gigs but I do know any more details).

BUG: soft lockup - CPU#56 stuck for 22s! [kernel:31053]
Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc mptctl mptbase autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_round_robin dm_multipath bonding cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave pcc_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse loop osst sg sd_mod crc_t10dif st qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt netxen_nic i7core_edac iTCO_wdt joydev e1000e serio_raw pcspkr edac_core iTCO_vendor_support acpi_power_meter rtc_cmos hpwdt hpilo button container usbhid hid dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log linear uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh dm_snapshot pcnet32 mii edd dm_mod raid1 ext3 mbcache jbd fan thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon cciss scsi_mod
Supported: Yes
CPU 56
Pid: 31053, comm: kernel Not tainted 3.0.31-0.9-default #1 HP ProLiant DL580 G7
RIP: 0010: _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x10
RSP: 0018:ffff883ec1037af0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000e00 RBX: ffffea01a0817e28 RCX: ffff88803ffd9e80
RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000206 RDI: 0000000000000206
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff887ec724a400
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffffffff8144c26e
R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000297 R15: 000000000000000e
FS: 00007ed834282700(0000) GS:ffff88c03f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 000000000068b240 CR3: 0000003ec13c5000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process kernel (pid: 31053, threadinfo ffff883ec1036000, task ffff883ebd5d4100)
Call Trace:
release_pages+0xc5/0x260
free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x9d/0xc0
tlb_flush_mmu+0x5c/0x80
tlb_finish_mmu+0xe/0x50
exit_mmap+0xbd/0x120
mmput+0x49/0x120
exit_mm+0x122/0x160
do_exit+0x17a/0x430
do_group_exit+0x3d/0xb0
get_signal_to_deliver+0x247/0x480
do_signal+0x71/0x1b0
do_notify_resume+0x98/0xb0
int_signal+0x12/0x17
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at int_signal+0x12/0x17

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 9 +++++++++
mm/memory.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ struct mmu_gather_batch {
#define MAX_GATHER_BATCH \
((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct mmu_gather_batch)) / sizeof(void *))

+/*
+ * Limit the maximum number of mmu_gather batches to reduce a risk of soft
+ * lockups for non-preemptible kernels on huge machines when a lot of memory
+ * is zapped during unmapping.
+ * 10K pages freed at once should be safe even without a preemption point.
+ */
+#define MAX_GATHER_BATCH_COUNT (10000UL/MAX_GATHER_BATCH)
+
/* struct mmu_gather is an opaque type used by the mm code for passing around
* any data needed by arch specific code for tlb_remove_page.
*/
@@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ struct mmu_gather {
struct mmu_gather_batch *active;
struct mmu_gather_batch local;
struct page *__pages[MMU_GATHER_BUNDLE];
+ unsigned int batch_count;
};

#define HAVE_GENERIC_MMU_GATHER
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -182,10 +182,14 @@ static int tlb_next_batch(struct mmu_gat
return 1;
}

+ if (tlb->batch_count == MAX_GATHER_BATCH_COUNT)
+ return 0;
+
batch = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN, 0);
if (!batch)
return 0;

+ tlb->batch_count++;
batch->next = NULL;
batch->nr = 0;
batch->max = MAX_GATHER_BATCH;
@@ -214,6 +218,7 @@ void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *t
tlb->local.nr = 0;
tlb->local.max = ARRAY_SIZE(tlb->__pages);
tlb->active = &tlb->local;
+ tlb->batch_count = 0;

#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
tlb->batch = NULL;