FROMLIST: dm: Avoid sleeping while holding the dm_bufio lock
We've seen in-field reports showing _lots_ (18 in one case, 41 in
another) of tasks all sitting there blocked on:
mutex_lock+0x4c/0x68
dm_bufio_shrink_count+0x38/0x78
shrink_slab.part.54.constprop.65+0x100/0x464
shrink_zone+0xa8/0x198
In the two cases analyzed, we see one task that looks like this:
Workqueue: kverityd verity_prefetch_io
__switch_to+0x9c/0xa8
__schedule+0x440/0x6d8
schedule+0x94/0xb4
schedule_timeout+0x204/0x27c
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x44/0x50
wait_iff_congested+0x9c/0x1f0
shrink_inactive_list+0x3a0/0x4cc
shrink_lruvec+0x418/0x5cc
shrink_zone+0x88/0x198
try_to_free_pages+0x51c/0x588
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x648/0xa88
__get_free_pages+0x34/0x7c
alloc_buffer+0xa4/0x144
__bufio_new+0x84/0x278
dm_bufio_prefetch+0x9c/0x154
verity_prefetch_io+0xe8/0x10c
process_one_work+0x240/0x424
worker_thread+0x2fc/0x424
kthread+0x10c/0x114
...and that looks to be the one holding the mutex.
The problem has been reproduced on fairly easily:
0. Be running Chrome OS w/ verity enabled on the root filesystem
1. Pick test patch: http://crosreview.com/412360
2. Install launchBalloons.sh and balloon.arm from
http://crbug.com/468342
...that's just a memory stress test app.
3. On a 4GB rk3399 machine, run
nice ./launchBalloons.sh 4 900 100000
...that tries to eat 4 * 900 MB of memory and keep accessing.
4. Login to the Chrome web browser and restore many tabs
With that, I've seen printouts like:
DOUG: long bufio 90758 ms
...and stack trace always show's we're in dm_bufio_prefetch().
The problem is that we try to allocate memory with GFP_NOIO while
we're holding the dm_bufio lock. Instead we should be using
GFP_NOWAIT. Using GFP_NOIO can cause us to sleep while holding the
lock and that causes the above problems.
The current behavior explained by David Rientjes:
It will still try reclaim initially because __GFP_WAIT (or
__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM) is set by GFP_NOIO. This is the cause of
contention on dm_bufio_lock() that the thread holds. You want to
pass GFP_NOWAIT instead of GFP_NOIO to alloc_buffer() when holding a
mutex that can be contended by a concurrent slab shrinker (if
count_objects didn't use a trylock, this pattern would trivially
deadlock).
BUG=chrome-os-partner:59819
TEST=See CL desc
Change-Id: I7b19819f1637172682ebad4c553cb2d86056001f
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
(am from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9435195/)
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/411946
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
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