On Thu 13-12-18 13:41:47, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 10:22:21AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
From: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com
Liu Bo has experienced a deadlock between memcg (legacy) reclaim and the ext4 writeback task1: [<ffffffff811aaa52>] wait_on_page_bit+0x82/0xa0 [<ffffffff811c5777>] shrink_page_list+0x907/0x960 [<ffffffff811c6027>] shrink_inactive_list+0x2c7/0x680 [<ffffffff811c6ba4>] shrink_node_memcg+0x404/0x830 [<ffffffff811c70a8>] shrink_node+0xd8/0x300 [<ffffffff811c73dd>] do_try_to_free_pages+0x10d/0x330 [<ffffffff811c7865>] try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xd5/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8122df2d>] try_charge+0x14d/0x720 [<ffffffff812320cc>] memcg_kmem_charge_memcg+0x3c/0xa0 [<ffffffff812321ae>] memcg_kmem_charge+0x7e/0xd0 [<ffffffff811b68a8>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x178/0x260 [<ffffffff8120bff5>] alloc_pages_current+0x95/0x140 [<ffffffff81074247>] pte_alloc_one+0x17/0x40 [<ffffffff811e34de>] __pte_alloc+0x1e/0x110 [<ffffffffa06739de>] alloc_set_pte+0x5fe/0xc20 [<ffffffff811e5d93>] do_fault+0x103/0x970 [<ffffffff811e6e5e>] handle_mm_fault+0x61e/0xd10 [<ffffffff8106ea02>] __do_page_fault+0x252/0x4d0 [<ffffffff8106ecb0>] do_page_fault+0x30/0x80 [<ffffffff8171bce8>] page_fault+0x28/0x30 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
task2: [<ffffffff811aadc6>] __lock_page+0x86/0xa0 [<ffffffffa02f1e47>] mpage_prepare_extent_to_map+0x2e7/0x310 [ext4] [<ffffffffa08a2689>] ext4_writepages+0x479/0xd60 [<ffffffff811bbede>] do_writepages+0x1e/0x30 [<ffffffff812725e5>] __writeback_single_inode+0x45/0x320 [<ffffffff81272de2>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x272/0x600 [<ffffffff81273202>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x92/0xc0 [<ffffffff81273568>] wb_writeback+0x268/0x300 [<ffffffff81273d24>] wb_workfn+0xb4/0x390 [<ffffffff810a2f19>] process_one_work+0x189/0x420 [<ffffffff810a31fe>] worker_thread+0x4e/0x4b0 [<ffffffff810a9786>] kthread+0xe6/0x100 [<ffffffff8171a9a1>] ret_from_fork+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
He adds : task1 is waiting for the PageWriteback bit of the page that task2 has : collected in mpd->io_submit->io_bio, and tasks2 is waiting for the LOCKED : bit the page which tasks1 has locked.
More precisely task1 is handling a page fault and it has a page locked while it charges a new page table to a memcg. That in turn hits a memory limit reclaim and the memcg reclaim for legacy controller is waiting on the writeback but that is never going to finish because the writeback itself is waiting for the page locked in the #PF path. So this is essentially ABBA deadlock: lock_page(A) SetPageWriteback(A) unlock_page(A) lock_page(B) lock_page(B) pte_alloc_pne shrink_page_list wait_on_page_writeback(A) SetPageWriteback(B) unlock_page(B)
# flush A, B to clear the writebackThis accumulating of more pages to flush is used by several filesystems to generate a more optimal IO patterns.
Waiting for the writeback in legacy memcg controller is a workaround for pre-mature OOM killer invocations because there is no dirty IO throttling available for the controller. There is no easy way around that unfortunately. Therefore fix this specific issue by pre-allocating the page table outside of the page lock. We have that handy infrastructure for that already so simply reuse the fault-around pattern which already does this.
There are probably other hidden __GFP_ACCOUNT | GFP_KERNEL allocations from under a fs page locked but they should be really rare. I am not aware of a better solution unfortunately.
Reported-and-Debugged-by: Liu Bo bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com Cc: stable Fixes: c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Thanks!
Will you take care about converting vmf_insert_* to use the pre-allocated page table?
I can try but I would appreciate if somebody more familiar with the code could do that. I am busy as hell and I do not want to promis something I will likely not get to soon.