[PATCH] mm/cgroup: avoid panic when init with low memory
From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 05:36:23 EST
The system may panic when initialisation is done when almost all the
memory is assigned to the huge pages using the kernel command line
parameter hugepage=xxxx. Panic may occur like this:
[ 0.082289] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
[ 0.082338] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000302b88
[ 0.082377] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[ 0.082408] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 [ 0.082424] NUMA
[ 0.082440] pSeries
[ 0.082457] Modules linked in:
[ 0.082490] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.9.0-15-generic #16-Ubuntu
[ 0.082536] task: c00000021ed01600 task.stack: c00000010d108000
[ 0.082575] NIP: c000000000302b88 LR: c000000000270e04 CTR: c00000000016cfd0
[ 0.082621] REGS: c00000010d10b2c0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (4.9.0-15-generic)
[ 0.082666] MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>[ 0.082770] CR: 28424422 XER: 00000000
[ 0.082793] CFAR: c0000000003d28b8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 1
GPR00: c000000000270e04 c00000010d10b540 c00000000141a300 c00000010fff6300
GPR04: 0000000000000000 00000000026012c0 c00000010d10b630 0000000487ab0000
GPR08: 000000010ee90000 c000000001454fd8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000000fb80000 00000000026012c0 00000000026012c0
GPR16: 00000000026012c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000002
GPR20: 000000000000000c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000024200c0
GPR24: c0000000016eef48 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 00000000026012c0
GPR28: 0000000000000000 c00000010fff7d00 c00000010fff6300 c00000010d10b6d0
NIP [c000000000302b88] mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim+0xf8/0x4f0
[ 0.083456] LR [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450
[ 0.083494] Call Trace:
[ 0.083511] [c00000010d10b540] [c00000010d10b640] 0xc00000010d10b640 (unreliable)
[ 0.083567] [c00000010d10b610] [c000000000270e04] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1b4/0x450
[ 0.083622] [c00000010d10b6b0] [c000000000271198] try_to_free_pages+0xf8/0x270
[ 0.083676] [c00000010d10b740] [c000000000259dd8] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7a8/0xff0
[ 0.083729] [c00000010d10b960] [c0000000002dd274] new_slab+0x104/0x8e0
[ 0.083776] [c00000010d10ba40] [c0000000002e03d0] ___slab_alloc+0x620/0x700
[ 0.083822] [c00000010d10bb70] [c0000000002e04e4] __slab_alloc+0x34/0x60
[ 0.083868] [c00000010d10bba0] [c0000000002e101c] kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x310
[ 0.083947] [c00000010d10bc00] [c000000000eb8120] mem_cgroup_init+0x158/0x1c8
[ 0.083994] [c00000010d10bc40] [c00000000000dde8] do_one_initcall+0x68/0x1d0
[ 0.084041] [c00000010d10bd00] [c000000000e84184] kernel_init_freeable+0x278/0x360
[ 0.084094] [c00000010d10bdc0] [c00000000000e714] kernel_init+0x24/0x170
[ 0.084143] [c00000010d10be30] [c00000000000c0e8] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74
[ 0.084195] Instruction dump:
[ 0.084220] eb81ffe0 eba1ffe8 ebc1fff0 ebe1fff8 4e800020 3d230001 e9499a42 3d220004
[ 0.084300] 3929acd8 794a1f24 7d295214 eac90100 <e9360000> 2fa90000 419eff74 3b200000
[ 0.084382] ---[ end trace 342f5208b00d01b6 ]---
This is a chicken and egg issue where the kernel try to get free
memory when allocating per node data in mem_cgroup_init(), but in that
path mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is called which assumes that
these data are allocated.
As mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() is best effort, it should return
when these data are not yet allocated.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1fd6affcdde7..213f96b2f601 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2556,7 +2556,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
* is empty. Do it lockless to prevent lock bouncing. Races
* are acceptable as soft limit is best effort anyway.
*/
- if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mctz->rb_root))
+ if (!mctz || RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&mctz->rb_root))
return 0;
/*
--
2.7.4