Re: regression 4.4: deadlock in with cgroup percpu_rwsem

[Christian Borntraeger]

On 01/14/2016 03:04 PM, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/14/2016 01:19 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> With 4.4 I can easily bring the system into a hang like situation by
>> putting stress on the cgroup_threadgroup rwsem. (e.g. starting/stopping
>> kvm guests via libvirt and many vCPUs). Here is my preliminary analysis:
>>
>> When the hang happens, the system is idle for all CPUs. There are some
>> processes waiting for the cgroup_thread_rwsem, e.g.
>>
>> crash> bt 87399
>> PID: 87399  TASK: faef084998        CPU: 59  COMMAND: "systemd-udevd"
>>  #0 [f9e762fc88] __schedule at 83b2cc
>>  #1 [f9e762fcf0] schedule at 83ba26
>>  #2 [f9e762fd08] rwsem_down_read_failed at 83fb64
>>  #3 [f9e762fd68] percpu_down_read at 1bdf56
>>  #4 [f9e762fdd0] exit_signals at 1742ae
>>  #5 [f9e762fe00] do_exit at 163be0
>>  #6 [f9e762fe60] do_group_exit at 165c62
>>  #7 [f9e762fe90] __wake_up_parent at 165d00
>>  #8 [f9e762fea8] system_call at 842386
>>
>> of course, any new process would wait for the same lock during fork.
>>
>> Looking at the rwsem, while all CPUs are idle, it appears that the lock
>> is taken for write:
>>
>> crash> print /x cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.rw_sem
>> $8 = {
>>   count = 0xfffffffe00000001, 
>> [..]
>>   owner = 0xfabf28c998, 
>> }
>>
>> Looking at the owner field:
>>
>> crash> bt 0xfabf28c998
>> PID: 11867  TASK: fabf28c998        CPU: 42  COMMAND: "libvirtd"
>>  #0 [fadeccb5e8] __schedule at 83b2cc
>>  #1 [fadeccb650] schedule at 83ba26
>>  #2 [fadeccb668] schedule_timeout at 8403c6
>>  #3 [fadeccb748] wait_for_common at 83c850
>>  #4 [fadeccb7b8] flush_work at 18064a
>>  #5 [fadeccb8d8] lru_add_drain_all at 2abd10
>>  #6 [fadeccb938] migrate_prep at 309ed2
>>  #7 [fadeccb950] do_migrate_pages at 2f7644
>>  #8 [fadeccb9f0] cpuset_migrate_mm at 220848
>>  #9 [fadeccba58] cpuset_attach at 223248
>> #10 [fadeccbaa0] cgroup_taskset_migrate at 21a678
>> #11 [fadeccbaf8] cgroup_migrate at 21a942
>> #12 [fadeccbba0] cgroup_attach_task at 21ab8a
>> #13 [fadeccbc18] __cgroup_procs_write at 21affa
>> #14 [fadeccbc98] cgroup_file_write at 216be0
>> #15 [fadeccbd08] kernfs_fop_write at 3aa088
>> #16 [fadeccbd50] __vfs_write at 319782
>> #17 [fadeccbe08] vfs_write at 31a1ac
>> #18 [fadeccbe68] sys_write at 31af06
>> #19 [fadeccbea8] system_call at 842386
>>  PSW:  0705100180000000 000003ff9438f9f0 (user space)
>>
>> it appears that the write holder scheduled away and waits
>> for a completion. Now what happens is, that the write lock
>> holder finally calls flush_work for the lru_add_drain_all
>> work. 
> 
> So what's happening is that libvirtd wants to move some processes in the
> cgroup subtree and it to the respective cgroup file. So
> cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem is acquired in __cgroup_procs_write, then as
> part of this process the pages for that process have to be migrated,
> hence the do_migrate_pages. And this call chain boils down to calling
> lru_add_drain_cpu on every cpu.
> 
> 
>>
>> As far as I can see, this work is now tries to create a new kthread
>> and waits for that, as the backtrace for the kworker on that cpu has:
>>
>> PID: 81913  TASK: fab5356220        CPU: 42  COMMAND: "kworker/42:2"
>>  #0 [fadd6d7998] __schedule at 83b2cc
>>  #1 [fadd6d7a00] schedule at 83ba26
>>  #2 [fadd6d7a18] schedule_timeout at 8403c6
>>  #3 [fadd6d7af8] wait_for_common at 83c850
>>  #4 [fadd6d7b68] wait_for_completion_killable at 83c996
>>  #5 [fadd6d7b88] kthread_create_on_node at 1876a4
>>  #6 [fadd6d7cc0] create_worker at 17d7fa
>>  #7 [fadd6d7d30] worker_thread at 17fff0
>>  #8 [fadd6d7da0] kthread at 187884
>>  #9 [fadd6d7ea8] kernel_thread_starter at 842552
>>
>> Problem is that kthreadd then needs the cgroup lock for reading,
>> while libvirtd still has the lock for writing.
>>
>> crash> bt 0xfaf031e220
>> PID: 2      TASK: faf031e220        CPU: 40  COMMAND: "kthreadd"
>>  #0 [faf034bad8] __schedule at 83b2cc
>>  #1 [faf034bb40] schedule at 83ba26
>>  #2 [faf034bb58] rwsem_down_read_failed at 83fb64
>>  #3 [faf034bbb8] percpu_down_read at 1bdf56
>>  #4 [faf034bc20] copy_process at 15eab6
>>  #5 [faf034bd08] _do_fork at 160430
>>  #6 [faf034bdd0] kernel_thread at 160a82
>>  #7 [faf034be30] kthreadd at 188580
>>  #8 [faf034bea8] kernel_thread_starter at 842552
>>
>> BANG.kthreadd waits for the lock that libvirtd hold, and libvirtd waits
>> for kthreadd to finish some task
> 
> I don't see percpu_down_read being invoked from copy_process. According
> to LXR, this semaphore is used only in __cgroup_procs_write and
> cgroup_update_dfl_csses. And cgroup_update_dfl_csses is invoked when
> cgroup.subtree_control is written to. And I don't see this happening in
> this call chain.

The callchain is inlined and as follows:


_do_fork
copy_process
threadgroup_change_begin
cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin