Re: Lockups due to "locking/rwsem: Make handoff bit handling more consistent"

[Mel Gorman]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 09:32:12PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 6/20/22 10:09, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:29:20AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > > > The C file and shell script to run it are attached.
> > > > 
> > > Thanks for the reproducer and I will try to reproduce it locally.
> > > 
> > > It is a known issue that I have receive similar report from an Oracle
> > > engineer. That is the reason I posted commit 1ee326196c66 ("locking/rwsem:
> > > Always try to wake waiters in out_nolock path") that was merged in v5.19. I
> > > believe it helps but it may not be able to eliminate all possible race
> > > conditions. To make rwsem behave more like before commit d257cc8cb8d5
> > > ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff bit handling more consistent"), I posted a
> > > follow-up patch
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220427173124.1428050-1-longman@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > > 
> > > But it hasn't gotten review yet.
> > > 
> > FWIW, the patch passed the test case when applied to both 5.18 and
> > 5.19-rc3.
> 
> Thanks for running the test. Do you mean that both 5.18 and 5.19-rc3 fail
> the test and they pass only after applying the patch?
> 

Yes.

> Anyway, I am not able to reproduce the failure in both 5.18 and 5.19-rc3.
> Perhaps it is due to the difference in the running environment, i.e. gcc,
> glibc, etc. What operating environment (SuSE version) do you use to
> reproduce the failure? I used RHEL8 which is the most convenient one for me.
> 

It was reproduced on Leap 15.4 with a 2-socket machine with 40 cores
(SMT-2). The kernel built was based on the distribution config. gcc
version was based on 7.5.0.

> BTW, do you mind if I put down your name with a "Tested-by:" tag to the
> patch?
> 

No problem.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs