Re: [PATCH] memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch

From: Wen Congyang
Date: Thu Sep 20 2012 - 01:17:07 EST


At 09/20/2012 01:16 PM, Minchan Kim Wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:12:40AM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> At 09/20/2012 10:30 AM, Minchan Kim Wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:17:43AM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>>> At 09/20/2012 04:17 AM, Minchan Kim Wrote:
>>>>> Hi KOSAKI,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:05:20PM -0400, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>> During memory-hotplug stress test, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE]
>>>>>>> are increasing so that kernel are hang out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
>>>>>>> __zone_pcp_update clear out zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset
>>>>>>> without draining vm_stat_diff of all CPU.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch fixes it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> zone_pcp_update() is called from online pages path. but IMHO,
>>>>>> the statistics should be drained offline path. isn't it?
>>>>>
>>>>> It isn't necessary because statistics is right until we reset it to zero
>>>>> in online path.
>>>>> Do you have something on your mind that we have to drain it in offline path?
>>>>
>>>> When a node is offlined and onlined again. We create node_data[i] in the
>>>
>>> I would like to clarify your word.
>>> Create or recreate?
>>> Why I have a question is as I look over the source code, hotadd_new_pgdat
>>> seem to be called if we do hotadd *new* memory. It's not the case for
>>> offline and online again you mentioned. If you're right, I should find
>>> arch_free_nodedata to free pgdat when node is disappear but I can't find it.
>>> Do I miss something?
>>
>> Hmm, when a memory is removed, we don't do cleanup now. We(Fujitsu) posted
>> a patchset to do this:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/5/201
>>
>> We don't free pgdat in this patchset now. We have two choice:
>> 1. free pgdat
>> 2. don't free it, and reuse it when it is onlined again
>>
>> I'm not sure which choice is better.
>
> I have no idea because I don't know how you guys uses.
> If there is use case that sometime you ues many node burstly but
> ues a few node in most time, 1) would be good POV memory efficiency
> although it makes code rather complicated.
>
> Anyway, it's another story with this patch because it's not merged yet.

Yes, it is another story.

>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> function hotadd_new_pgdat(), and we will lost the statistics stored in
>>>> zone->pageset. So we should drain it in offline path.
>>>
>>> Even we drain in offline patch, it still has a problem.
>>>
>>> 1. offline
>>> 2. drain -> OKAY
>>> 3. schedule
>>> 4. Process A increase zone stat
>>> 5. Process B increase zone stat
>>> 6. online
>>> 7. reset it -> we ends up lost zone stat counter which is modified between 2-6
>>>
>>
>> I understand why you drain it in online path now. But it still should drain it
>> in offline path because if all pages in this zone are offlined, we will call
>> zone_pcp_reset() to reset zone's pcp. We should also drop it in the function
>> zone_pcp_reset().
>
> Good point.
> How about this?

It looks fine to me now.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

>
>>From e92bf3e96720c89cb18ec32c5db095a27ad4133c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:11:49 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v2] memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch
>
> During memory-hotplug, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE]
> are increasing so that kernel are hang out.
>
> The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
> __zone_pcp_update clear out zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset
> although vm_stat_diff of all CPU still have value.
>
> In addtion, when we offline all pages of the zone, we reset them
> in zone_pcp_reset without drain so that we lost zone stat item.
>
> This patch fixes it.
>
> * from v1
> * drain offline patch - KOSAKI, Wen
>
> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/vmstat.h | 4 ++++
> mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++++
> mm/vmstat.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> index ad2cfd5..5d31876 100644
> --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
> +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
> @@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ extern void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item);
> void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int);
> void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void);
>
> +void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pageset *);
> +
> int calculate_pressure_threshold(struct zone *zone);
> int calculate_normal_threshold(struct zone *zone);
> void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
> @@ -251,6 +253,8 @@ static inline void __dec_zone_page_state(struct page *page,
> static inline void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu) { }
> static inline void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void) { }
>
> +static inline void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone,
> + struct per_cpu_pageset *pset) { }
> #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>
> extern const char * const vmstat_text[];
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index ab58346..980f2e7 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5904,6 +5904,7 @@ static int __meminit __zone_pcp_update(void *data)
> local_irq_save(flags);
> if (pcp->count > 0)
> free_pcppages_bulk(zone, pcp->count, pcp);
> + drain_zonestat(zone, pset);
> setup_pageset(pset, batch);
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> }
> @@ -5920,10 +5921,16 @@ void __meminit zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone)
> void zone_pcp_reset(struct zone *zone)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
> + int cpu;
> + struct per_cpu_pageset *pset;
>
> /* avoid races with drain_pages() */
> local_irq_save(flags);
> if (zone->pageset != &boot_pageset) {
> + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> + pset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu);
> + drain_zonestat(zone, pset);
> + }
> free_percpu(zone->pageset);
> zone->pageset = &boot_pageset;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
> index b3e3b9d..d4cc1c2 100644
> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -495,6 +495,18 @@ void refresh_cpu_vm_stats(int cpu)
> atomic_long_add(global_diff[i], &vm_stat[i]);
> }
>
> +void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone, struct per_cpu_pageset *pset)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++)
> + if (pset->vm_stat_diff[i]) {
> + int v = pset->vm_stat_diff[i];
> + pset->vm_stat_diff[i] = 0;
> + atomic_long_add(v, &zone->vm_stat[i]);
> + atomic_long_add(v, &vm_stat[i]);
> + }
> +}
> #endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA

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