From: Benjamin Segall bsegall@google.com
commit a16ceb13961068f7209e34d7984f8e42d2c06159 upstream.
If a process is killed or otherwise exits while having active network connections and many threads waiting on epoll_wait, the threads will all be woken immediately, but not removed from ep->wq. Then when network traffic scans ep->wq in wake_up, every wakeup attempt will fail, and will not remove the entries from the list.
This means that the cost of the wakeup attempt is far higher than usual, does not decrease, and this also competes with the dying threads trying to actually make progress and remove themselves from the wq.
Handle this by removing visited epoll wq entries unconditionally, rather than only when the wakeup succeeds - the structure of ep_poll means that the only potential loss is the timed_out->eavail heuristic, which now can race and result in a redundant ep_send_events attempt. (But only when incoming data and a timeout actually race, not on every timeout)
Shakeel added:
: We are seeing this issue in production with real workloads and it has : caused hard lockups. Particularly network heavy workloads with a lot : of threads in epoll_wait() can easily trigger this issue if they get : killed (oom-killed in our case).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26fsjotqda.fsf@google.com Signed-off-by: Ben Segall bsegall@google.com Tested-by: Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com Cc: Alexander Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com Cc: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: Roman Penyaev rpenyaev@suse.de Cc: Jason Baron jbaron@akamai.com Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov khazhy@google.com Cc: Heiher r@hev.cc Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/eventpoll.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1747,6 +1747,21 @@ static struct timespec64 *ep_timeout_to_ return to; }
+/* + * autoremove_wake_function, but remove even on failure to wake up, because we + * know that default_wake_function/ttwu will only fail if the thread is already + * woken, and in that case the ep_poll loop will remove the entry anyways, not + * try to reuse it. + */ +static int ep_autoremove_wake_function(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, + unsigned int mode, int sync, void *key) +{ + int ret = default_wake_function(wq_entry, mode, sync, key); + + list_del_init(&wq_entry->entry); + return ret; +} + /** * ep_poll - Retrieves ready events, and delivers them to the caller-supplied * event buffer. @@ -1828,8 +1843,15 @@ static int ep_poll(struct eventpoll *ep, * normal wakeup path no need to call __remove_wait_queue() * explicitly, thus ep->lock is not taken, which halts the * event delivery. + * + * In fact, we now use an even more aggressive function that + * unconditionally removes, because we don't reuse the wait + * entry between loop iterations. This lets us also avoid the + * performance issue if a process is killed, causing all of its + * threads to wake up without being removed normally. */ init_wait(&wait); + wait.func = ep_autoremove_wake_function;
write_lock_irq(&ep->lock); /*