[PATCH stable v5.4] mm: memcg: fix memcg reclaim soft lockup
From: Julius Hemanth Pitti
Date: Mon Sep 21 2020 - 14:05:24 EST
From: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit e3336cab2579012b1e72b5265adf98e2d6e244ad upstream
We've met softlockup with "CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y", when the target memcg
doesn't have any reclaimable memory.
It can be easily reproduced as below:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 111s![memcg_test:2204]
CPU: 0 PID: 2204 Comm: memcg_test Not tainted 5.9.0-rc2+ #12
Call Trace:
shrink_lruvec+0x49f/0x640
shrink_node+0x2a6/0x6f0
do_try_to_free_pages+0xe9/0x3e0
try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xef/0x1f0
try_charge+0x2c1/0x750
mem_cgroup_charge+0xd7/0x240
__add_to_page_cache_locked+0x2fd/0x370
add_to_page_cache_lru+0x4a/0xc0
pagecache_get_page+0x10b/0x2f0
filemap_fault+0x661/0xad0
ext4_filemap_fault+0x2c/0x40
__do_fault+0x4d/0xf9
handle_mm_fault+0x1080/0x1790
It only happens on our 1-vcpu instances, because there's no chance for
oom reaper to run to reclaim the to-be-killed process.
Add a cond_resched() at the upper shrink_node_memcgs() to solve this
issue, this will mean that we will get a scheduling point for each memcg
in the reclaimed hierarchy without any dependency on the reclaimable
memory in that memcg thus making it more predictable.
[jpitti@xxxxxxxxx:
- backported to v5.4.y
- Upstream patch applies fix in shrink_node_memcgs(), which
is not present to v5.4.y. Appled to shrink_node()]
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1598495549-67324-1-git-send-email-xlpang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b0dedc49a2da ("mm/vmscan.c: iterate only over charged shrinkers during memcg shrink_slab()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Julius Hemanth Pitti <jpitti@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7fde5f904c8d..6db9176d8c63 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2775,6 +2775,14 @@ static bool shrink_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
unsigned long reclaimed;
unsigned long scanned;
+ /*
+ * This loop can become CPU-bound when target memcgs
+ * aren't eligible for reclaim - either because they
+ * don't have any reclaimable pages, or because their
+ * memory is explicitly protected. Avoid soft lockups.
+ */
+ cond_resched();
+
switch (mem_cgroup_protected(root, memcg)) {
case MEMCG_PROT_MIN:
/*
--
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