Re: [bug report] resctrl high memory comsumption

Fenghua Yu
2020-01-08T20:12:19Z

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 09:07:41AM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently we had a bug in the system software writing the same pids to
> the tasks file of resctrl group multiple times. The resctrl code
> allocates "struct task_move_callback" for each such write and call
> task_work_add() for that task to handle it on return to user-space
> without checking if such request already exist for that particular
> task. The issue arises for long sleeping tasks which has thousands for
> such request queued to be handled. On our production, we notice
> thousands of tasks having thousands of such requests and taking GiBs
> of memory for "struct task_move_callback". I am not very familiar with
> the code to judge if task_work_cancel() is the right approach or just
> checking closid/rmid before doing task_work_add().
>

Thank you for reporting the issue, Shakeel!

Could you please check if the following patch fixes the issue?
From 3c23c39b6a44fdfbbbe0083d074dcc114d7d7f1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 19:53:33 +0000
Subject: [RFC PATCH] x86/resctrl: Fix redundant task movements

Currently a task can be moved to a rdtgroup multiple times.
But, this can cause multiple task works are added, waste memory
and degrade performance.

To fix the issue, only move the task to a rdtgroup when the task
is not in the rdgroup. Don't try to move the task to the rdtgroup
again when the task is already in the rdtgroup.

Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index 2e3b06d6bbc6..75300c4a5969 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -546,6 +546,17 @@ static int __rdtgroup_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct task_move_callback *callback;
int ret;

+ /* If the task is already in rdtgrp, don't move the task. */
+ if ((rdtgrp->type == RDTCTRL_GROUP && tsk->closid == rdtgrp->closid &&
+ tsk->rmid == rdtgrp->mon.rmid) ||
+ (rdtgrp->type == RDTMON_GROUP &&
+ rdtgrp->mon.parent->closid == tsk->closid &&
+ tsk->rmid == rdtgrp->mon.rmid)) {
+ rdt_last_cmd_puts("Task is already in the rdgroup\n");
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
callback = kzalloc(sizeof(*callback), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!callback)
return -ENOMEM;
--
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