Re: [PATCH] kfence: Avoid stalling work queue task without allocations

Anders Roxell
2020-11-11T15:01:48Z

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 09:29, Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 00:23, Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > I gave them a spin on next-20201105 [1] and on next-20201110 [2].
> >
> > I eventually got to a prompt on next-20201105.
> > However, I got to this kernel panic on the next-20201110:
> >
> > [...]
> > [ 1514.089966][ T1] Testing event system initcall: OK
> > [ 1514.806232][ T1] Running tests on all trace events:
> > [ 1514.857835][ T1] Testing all events:
> > [ 1525.503262][ C0] hrtimer: interrupt took 10902600 ns
> > [ 1623.861452][ C0] BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=0 node=0
> > flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 65s!
> > [...]
> > [ 7823.104349][ T28] Tainted: G W
> > 5.10.0-rc3-next-20201110-00008-g8dc06700529d #3
> > [ 7833.206491][ T28] "echo 0 >
> > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> > [ 7840.750700][ T28] task:kworker/0:1 state:D stack:26640 pid:
> > 1872 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000428
> > [ 7875.642531][ T28] Workqueue: events toggle_allocation_gate
> > [ 7889.178334][ T28] Call trace:
> > [ 7897.066649][ T28] __switch_to+0x1cc/0x1e0
> > [ 7905.326856][ T28] 0xffff00000f7077b0
> > [ 7928.354644][ T28] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
> > [ 7934.022572][ T28] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks
> > [ 7934.032039][ T28] CPU: 0 PID: 28 Comm: khungtaskd Tainted: G
> > W 5.10.0-rc3-next-20201110-00008-g8dc06700529d #3
> > [ 7934.045586][ T28] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> > [ 7934.053677][ T28] Call trace:
> > [ 7934.060276][ T28] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x420
> > [ 7934.067635][ T28] show_stack+0x38/0xa0
> > [ 7934.091277][ T28] dump_stack+0x1d4/0x278
> > [ 7934.098878][ T28] panic+0x304/0x5d8
> > [ 7934.114923][ T28] check_hung_uninterruptible_tasks+0x5e4/0x640
> > [ 7934.123823][ T28] watchdog+0x138/0x160
> > [ 7934.131561][ T28] kthread+0x23c/0x260
> > [ 7934.138590][ T28] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> > [ 7934.146631][ T28] Kernel Offset: disabled
> > [ 7934.153749][ T28] CPU features: 0x0240002,20002004
> > [ 7934.161476][ T28] Memory Limit: none
> > [ 7934.171272][ T28] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task:
> > blocked tasks ]---
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Anders
> > [1] https://people.linaro.org/~anders.roxell/output-next-20201105-test.log
> > [2] https://people.linaro.org/~anders.roxell/output-next-20201110-test.log
>
> Thanks for testing. The fact that it passes on next-20201105 but not
> on 20201110 is strange. If you boot with KFENCE disabled (boot param
> kfence.sample_interval=0), does it boot?

This is my qemu cmdline with kfence.sample_interval=0
$ qemu-system-aarch64 --enable-kvm -cpu cortex-a53 -kernel
Image-20201110-test -serial stdio -monitor none -nographic -m 2G -M
virt -fsdev local,id=root,path=/srv/kvm/tmp/stretch/arm64-test,security_model=none,writeout=immediate
-device virtio-rng-pci -device
virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=root,mount_tag=/dev/root -append "root=/dev/root
rootfstype=9p rootflags=trans=virtio console=ttyAMA0,38400n8
earlycon=pl011,0x9000000 initcall_debug softlockup_panic=0
security=none kpti=no kfence.sample_interval=0"

This is the result, I managed to get to the prompt. see
https://people.linaro.org/~anders.roxell/output-next-20201110-test-2.log

Cheers,
Anders

>
> In your log [2] I see a number of "BUG: workqueue lockup ..." but that
> doesn't make sense, at least I don't think the KFENCE work item is
> causing this. It'd be interesting to bisect what changed between
> 20201105 and 20201110, but I have a suspicion that might take too
> long. Short of that, let me see if there are any changes between the 2
> that look like it might be causing this.
>
> Thanks,
> -- Marco