Re: [PATCH] mm/kmemleak: report RCU-tasks quiescent states during the scan
From: Breno Leitao
Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 06:04:21 EST
On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 06:04:37AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> I found 3 different cases on Meta fleet, where rcu task stalls show up:
>
> 1) kmemleak -> This patch solves it
> 2) KVM / kcompactd
> * Holdout: kcompactd0 (pid 1216), state:R, nvcsw frozen at
> 716336/716336 across three reports 10 min apart (stuck ≥20 min in
> one compaction pass)
> * This is coming from: migrate_pages ->
> kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start ->
> tdp_mmu_next_root -> tdp_mmu_zap_leafs
>
> 3) Nvidia driver
> * stuck in nv_procfs_read_lock_params
I've found an additional one:
4) While shrinking in reclaim:
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
0000000088620d09: .. nvcsw: 6735/6735 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/8
task:GlobalCPUThread state:R running task pid:2552016 tgid:2524552
Call Trace:
shrink_lruvec
mem_cgroup_iter
shrink_node
I've proposing promoting cond_resched() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs():
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260810-rcu_task_shrink_lruvec-v1-1-4d9f7d5251cb@xxxxxxxxxx/