Re: [mm/page_alloc] 2bd8eec68f: BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/gup.c

Oliver Sang
2022-07-06T14:21:54Z

hi, Mel Gorman,

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:53:29PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 10:55:35AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 09:51:25PM +0800, Oliver Sang wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew Morton,
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 01:22:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 17:44:30 +0800 kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-11):
> > > > >
> > > > > commit: 2bd8eec68f740608db5ea58ecff06965228764cb ("[PATCH 7/7] mm/page_alloc: Replace local_lock with normal spinlock")
> > > > > url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Mel-Gorman/Drain-remote-per-cpu-directly/20220613-230139
> > > > > base: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git b13baccc3850ca8b8cccbf8ed9912dbaa0fdf7f3
> > > > > patch link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220613125622.18628-8-mgorman@techsingularity.net
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Did this test include the followup patch
> > > > mm-page_alloc-replace-local_lock-with-normal-spinlock-fix.patch?
> > >
> > > no, we just fetched original patch set and test upon it.
> > >
> > > now we applied the patch you pointed to us upon 2bd8eec68f and found the issue
> > > still exist.
> > > (attached dmesg FYI)
> > >
> >
> > Thanks Oliver.
> >
> > The trace is odd in that it hits in GUP when the page allocator is no
> > longer active and the context is a syscall. First, is this definitely
> > the first patch the problem occurs?
> >
>
> I tried reproducing this on a 2-socket machine with Xeon
> Gold Gold 5218R CPUs. It was necessary to set timeouts in both
> vm/settings and kselftest/runner.sh to avoid timeouts. Testing with
> a standard config on my original 5.19-rc3 baseline and the baseline
> b13baccc3850ca8b8cccbf8ed9912dbaa0fdf7f3 both passed. I tried your kernel
> config with i915 disabled (would not build) and necessary storage drivers
> and network drivers enabled (for boot and access). The kernel log shows
> a bunch of warnings related to USBAN during boot and during some of the
> tests but otherwise compaction_test completed successfully as well as
> the other VM tests.
>
> Is this always reproducible?

not always but high rate.
we actually also observed other dmesgs stats for both 2bd8eec68f74 and its
parent, but those dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at*
seem only happen on 2bd8eec68f74 as well as the '-fix' commit.

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compiler/group/kconfig/rootfs/sc_nr_hugepages/tbox_group/testcase/ucode:
gcc-11/vm/x86_64-rhel-8.3-kselftests/debian-11.1-x86_64-20220510.cgz/2/lkp-csl-2sp9/kernel-selftests/0x500320a

commit:
eec0ff5df294 ("mm/page_alloc: Remotely drain per-cpu lists")
2bd8eec68f74 ("mm/page_alloc: Replace local_lock with normal spinlock")
292baeb4c714 ("mm/page_alloc: replace local_lock with normal spinlock -fix")

eec0ff5df2945d19 2bd8eec68f740608db5ea58ecff 292baeb4c7149ac2cb844137481
---------------- --------------------------- ---------------------------
fail:runs %reproduction fail:runs %reproduction fail:runs
| | | | |
:20 75% 15:20 70% 14:21 dmesg.BUG:scheduling_while_atomic
:20 5% 1:20 0% :21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_fs/binfmt_elf.c
:20 5% 1:20 10% 2:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_fs/dcache.c
:20 5% 1:20 5% 1:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_include/linux/freezer.h
:20 10% 2:20 25% 5:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_include/linux/mmu_notifier.h
:20 5% 1:20 0% :21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h
:20 40% 8:20 40% 8:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_include/linux/sched/mm.h
:20 10% 2:20 0% :21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_kernel/locking/mutex.c
:20 10% 2:20 10% 2:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_lib/strncpy_from_user.c
:20 55% 11:20 65% 13:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/gup.c
:20 15% 3:20 5% 1:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/memory.c
:20 60% 12:20 55% 11:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/migrate.c
:20 5% 1:20 5% 1:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/page_alloc.c
:20 0% :20 5% 1:21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/rmap.c
:20 15% 3:20 0% :21 dmesg.BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_mm/vmalloc.c
:20 45% 9:20 45% 9:21 dmesg.BUG:workqueue_leaked_lock_or_atomic
:20 25% 5:20 15% 3:21 dmesg.Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Attempted_to_kill_init!exitcode=
:20 5% 1:20 0% :21 dmesg.RIP:__clear_user
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.RIP:rcu_eqs_exit
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.RIP:sched_clock_tick
:20 5% 1:20 0% :21 dmesg.RIP:smp_call_function_many_cond
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.WARNING:at_kernel/rcu/tree.c:#rcu_eqs_exit
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.WARNING:at_kernel/sched/clock.c:#sched_clock_tick
:20 5% 1:20 0% :21 dmesg.WARNING:at_kernel/smp.c:#smp_call_function_many_cond
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.WARNING:suspicious_RCU_usage
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.boot_failures
9:20 -15% 6:20 -5% 8:21 dmesg.include/linux/rcupdate.h:#rcu_read_lock()used_illegally_while_idle
9:20 -15% 6:20 -5% 8:21 dmesg.include/linux/rcupdate.h:#rcu_read_unlock()used_illegally_while_idle
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.include/trace/events/error_report.h:#suspicious_rcu_dereference_check()usage
20:20 0% 20:20 5% 21:21 dmesg.include/trace/events/lock.h:#suspicious_rcu_dereference_check()usage

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> Mel Gorman
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