Re: [PATCH RESEND] mm: fix tick_sched timer blocked by pgdat_resize_lock

[Shile Zhang]

On 2020/1/10 19:42, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> On 10.01.2020 12:30, Shile Zhang wrote:
> > When 'CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT' is set, 'pgdat_resize_lock'
> > will be called inside 'pgdatinit' kthread to initialise the deferred
> > pages with local interrupts disabled. Which is introduced by
> > commit 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing deferred
> > pages").
> >
> > But 'pgdatinit' kthread is possible be pined on the boot CPU (CPU#0 by
> > default), especially in small system with NRCPUS <= 2. In this case, the
> > interrupts are disabled on boot CPU during memory initialising, which
> > caused the tick_sched timer be blocked, leading to wall clock stuck.
> >
> > Fixes: commit 3a2d7fa8a3d5 ("mm: disable interrupts while initializing
> > deferred pages")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> >   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > index ba0dca6aac6e..be69a6dc4fee 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
> >   #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> >   #include <linux/notifier.h>
> >   #include <linux/bug.h>
> > +#include <linux/sched.h>
> > +#include <linux/smp.h>
> >   
> >   struct page;
> >   struct zone;
> > @@ -282,12 +284,22 @@ static inline bool movable_node_is_enabled(void)
> >   static inline
> >   void pgdat_resize_lock(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long *flags)
> >   {
> > -	spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Disable local interrupts on boot CPU will stop the tick_sched
> > +	 * timer, which will block jiffies(wall clock) update.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (current->cpu != get_boot_cpu_id())
> > +		spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
> > +	else
> > +		spin_lock(&pgdat->node_size_lock);
> >   }
> >   static inline
> >   void pgdat_resize_unlock(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long *flags)
> >   {
> > -	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
> > +	if (current->cpu != get_boot_cpu_id())
> > +		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
> > +	else
> > +		spin_unlock(&pgdat->node_size_lock);
> >   }
> >   static inline
> >   void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
> 1)Linux kernel is *preemptible*. Kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT option even may preempt
> *kernel* code in the middle of function. When you are executing a code containing
> pgdat_resize_lock() and pgdat_resize_unlock(), the process may migrate to another cpu
> between them.
>
> bool cpu               another cpu
> ----------------------------------
> pgdat_resize_lock()
>    spin_lock()
>    --> migrate to another cpu
>                        pgdat_resize_unlock()
>                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(<uninitialized flags>)
>
> (Yes, in case of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, process is preemptible even after spin_lock() call).
>
> This looks like a bad helpers, and we should not introduce such the design.

Hi Kirill,

Thanks for your comments!
Sorry for I'm not very clear about this lock/unlock, but I encountered 
this issue
with "CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set".
> 2)I think there is no the problem this patch solves. Do we really this statistics?
> Can't we simple remove print message from deferred_init_memmap() and solve this?

Sorry for I've not put this issue very clearly. It's *not* just one 
statistics log
with wrong time calculate, but the wall clock is stuck.
So the 'systemd-analyze' command also give a wrong time as I mentioned 
in the cover
letter. I don't think is OK just remove the log, it cannot solve the 
wall clock latency.
> Also, you may try to check that sched_clock() gives better results with interrupts
> disabled (on x86 it uses rdtsc, when it's possible. But it also may fallback to
> jiffies-based clock in some hardware cases, and they also won't go with interrupts
> disabled).
>
> Kirill