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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/numa: use down_read_trylock for mmap_sem
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On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 15:13 +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> A customer has reported a soft-lockup when running a proprietary
> intensive
> memory stress test, where the trace on multiple CPU's looks like
> this:
>
>  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c53fe>]
>   [<ffffffff810c53fe>] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x10e/0x190
> ...
>  Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff81182d07>] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x7/0xa
>   [<ffffffff811bc331>] change_protection_range+0x3b1/0x930
>   [<ffffffff811d4be8>] change_prot_numa+0x18/0x30
>   [<ffffffff810adefe>] task_numa_work+0x1fe/0x310
>   [<ffffffff81098322>] task_work_run+0x72/0x90
>
> Further investigation showed that the lock contention here is
> pmd_lock().
>
> The task_numa_work() function makes sure that only one thread is let
> to perform
> the work in a single scan period (via cmpxchg), but if there's a
> thread with
> mmap_sem locked for writing for several periods, multiple threads in
> task_numa_work() can build up a convoy waiting for mmap_sem for read
> and then
> all get unblocked at once.
>
> This patch changes the down_read() to the trylock version, which
> prevents the
> build up. For a workload experiencing mmap_sem contention, it's
> probably better
> to postpone the NUMA balancing work anyway. This seems to have fixed
> the soft
> lockups involving pmd_lock(), which is in line with the convoy
> theory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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