Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.12 20/27] sched/numa: Use down_read_trylock() for the mmap_sem | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:10:17 +0200 |
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4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
commit 8655d5497735b288f8a9b458bd22e7d1bf95bb61 upstream.
A customer has reported a soft-lockup when running an 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> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515131316.21909-1-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -2469,7 +2469,8 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head return; - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) + return; vma = find_vma(mm, start); if (!vma) { reset_ptenuma_scan(p);
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