From: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org
[ Upstream commit 4e37504d1c49eec6434d0cc97278d2b51c9e8763 ]
We've been seeing hard-to-trigger psi crashes when running inside VM instances:
divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI Modules linked in: [...] CPU: 0 PID: 212 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 4.16.18-119_fbk9_3817_gfe944c98d695 #119 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Workqueue: events psi_clock RIP: 0010:psi_update_stats+0x270/0x490 RSP: 0018:ffffc90001117e10 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8800a35a13f8 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8800a35a1340 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: 0000000000000658 R08: ffff8800a35a1470 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000f8502 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88023fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fbe370fa000 CR3: 00000000b1e3a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: psi_clock+0x12/0x50 process_one_work+0x1e0/0x390 worker_thread+0x2b/0x3c0 ? rescuer_thread+0x330/0x330 kthread+0x113/0x130 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40 ? SyS_exit_group+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 Code: 48 0f 47 c7 48 01 c2 45 85 e4 48 89 16 0f 85 e6 00 00 00 4c 8b 49 10 4c 8b 51 08 49 69 d9 f2 07 00 00 48 6b c0 64 4c 8b 29 31 d2 <48> f7 f7 49 69 d5 8d 06 00 00 48 89 c5 4c 69 f0 00 98 0b 00 48
The Code-line points to `period` being 0 inside update_stats(), and we divide by that when calculating that period's pressure percentage.
The elapsed period should never be 0. The reason this can happen is due to an off-by-one in the idle time / missing period calculation combined with a coarse sched_clock() in the virtual machine.
The target time for aggregation is advanced into the future on a fixed grid to prevent clock drift. So when an aggregation runs after some idle period, we can not just set it to "now + psi_period", but have to calculate the downtime and advance the target time relative to itself.
However, if the aggregator was disabled exactly one psi_period (ns), we drop one idle period in the calculation due to a > when we should do >=. In that case, next_update will be advanced from 'now - psi_period' to 'now' when it should be moved to 'now + psi_period'. The run finishes with last_update == next_update == sched_clock().
With hardware clocks, this exact nanosecond match isn't likely in the first place; but if it does happen, the clock will still have moved on and the period non-zero by the time the worker runs. A pointlessly short period, but besides the extra work, no harm no foul. However, a slow sched_clock() like we have on VMs might not have advanced either by the time the worker runs again. And when we calculate the elapsed period, the result, our pressure divisor, will be 0. Ouch.
Fix this by correctly handling the situation when the elapsed time between aggregation runs is precisely two periods, and advance the expiration timestamp correctly to period into the future.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214193157.15788-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Reported-by: Łukasz Siudut <lsiudut@fb.com Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/sched/psi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c index fe24de3fbc93..ba4ab443bb67 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static bool update_stats(struct psi_group *group) expires = group->next_update; if (now < expires) goto out; - if (now - expires > psi_period) + if (now - expires >= psi_period) missed_periods = div_u64(now - expires, psi_period);
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