From: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Subject: mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback

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 writeback

This 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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/memory.c:__do_fault()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [mhocko@kernel.org: enhance comment, per Johannes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181214084948.GA5624@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181213092221.27270-1-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: c3b94f44fcb0 ("memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reported-by: Liu Bo bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com Debugged-by: Liu Bo bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Acked-by: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Reviewed-by: Liu Bo bo.liu@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Jan Kara jack@suse.cz Cc: Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com Cc: Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu Cc: Vladimir Davydov vdavydov.dev@gmail.com Cc: Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/memory.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memcg-fix-reclaim-deadlock-with-writeback +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -2994,6 +2994,28 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_fault(struct vm_f struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma; vm_fault_t ret;

+ /* + * Preallocate pte before we take page_lock because this might lead to + * deadlocks for memcg reclaim which waits for pages under writeback: + * 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 writeback + */ + if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && !vmf->prealloc_pte) { + vmf->prealloc_pte = pte_alloc_one(vmf->vma->vm_mm); + if (!vmf->prealloc_pte) + return VM_FAULT_OOM; + smp_wmb(); /* See comment in __pte_alloc() */ + } + ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vmf); if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY | VM_FAULT_DONE_COW))) _