Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: don't scan adjust too much if current is not kswapd

[Hongchen Zhang]

Hi Matthew,

On 2022/9/15 am 5:00, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 04:02:41PM +0800, Hongchen Zhang wrote:
> > Hi Matthew,
> > On 2022/9/15 pm 3:28, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 09:19:48AM +0800, Hongchen Zhang wrote:
> > > > [ 3748.453561] INFO: task float_bessel:77920 blocked for more than 120
> > > > seconds.
> > > > [ 3748.460839]       Not tainted 5.15.0-46-generic #49-Ubuntu
> > > > [ 3748.466490] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables
> > > > this message.
> > > > [ 3748.474618] task:float_bessel    state:D stack:    0 pid:77920 ppid:
> > > > 77327 flags:0x00004002
> > > > [ 3748.483358] Call Trace:
> > > > [ 3748.485964]  <TASK>
> > > > [ 3748.488150]  __schedule+0x23d/0x590
> > > > [ 3748.491804]  schedule+0x4e/0xc0
> > > > [ 3748.495038]  rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x336/0x390
> > > > [ 3748.499886]  ? copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0xe/0x40
> > > > [ 3748.505181]  down_read+0x43/0xa0
> > > > [ 3748.508518]  do_user_addr_fault+0x41c/0x670
> > > > [ 3748.512799]  exc_page_fault+0x77/0x170
> > > > [ 3748.516673]  asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
> > > > [ 3748.520824] RIP: 0010:copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0xe/0x40
> > > > [ 3748.526764] Code: 89 d1 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 31 c0 0f
> > > > 01 ca c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 0f 01 cb 83 fa 40 0f 82 70 ff ff ff 89 d1 <f3>
> > > > a4 31 c0 0f 01 ca c3 cc cc cc cc 66 08
> > > > [ 3748.546120] RSP: 0018:ffffaa9248fffb90 EFLAGS: 00050206
> > > > [ 3748.551495] RAX: 00007f99faa1a010 RBX: ffffaa9248fffd88 RCX:
> > > > 0000000000000010
> > > > [ 3748.558828] RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffff9db397ab8ff0 RDI:
> > > > 00007f99faa1a000
> > > > [ 3748.566160] RBP: ffffaa9248fffbf0 R08: ffffcc2fc2965d80 R09:
> > > > 0000000000000014
> > > > [ 3748.573492] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000014 R12:
> > > > 0000000000001000
> > > > [ 3748.580858] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
> > > > ffffaa9248fffd98
> > > > [ 3748.588196]  ? copy_page_to_iter+0x10e/0x400
> > > > [ 3748.592614]  filemap_read+0x174/0x3e0
> > >
> > > Interesting; it wasn't the process itself which triggered the page
> > > fault; the process called read() and the kernel took the page fault to
> > > satisfy the read() call.
> > >
> > > > [ 3748.596354]  ? ima_file_check+0x6a/0xa0
> > > > [ 3748.600301]  generic_file_read_iter+0xe5/0x150
> > > > [ 3748.604884]  ext4_file_read_iter+0x5b/0x190
> > > > [ 3748.609164]  ? aa_file_perm+0x102/0x250
> > > > [ 3748.613125]  new_sync_read+0x10d/0x1a0
> > > > [ 3748.617009]  vfs_read+0x103/0x1a0
> > > > [ 3748.620423]  ksys_read+0x67/0xf0
> > > > [ 3748.623743]  __x64_sys_read+0x19/0x20
> > > > [ 3748.627511]  do_syscall_64+0x59/0xc0
> > > > [ 3748.631203]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50
> > > > [ 3748.636144]  ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0xc0
> > > > [ 3748.639992]  ? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x96/0xb0
> > > > [ 3748.644931]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x20
> > > > [ 3748.649872]  ? irqentry_exit+0x1d/0x30
> > > > [ 3748.653737]  ? exc_page_fault+0x89/0x170
> > > > [ 3748.657795]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
> > > > [ 3748.663030] RIP: 0033:0x7f9a852989cc
> > > > [ 3748.666713] RSP: 002b:00007f9a8497dc90 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:
> > > > 0000000000000000
> > > > [ 3748.674487] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9a8497f5c0 RCX:
> > > > 00007f9a852989cc
> > > > [ 3748.681817] RDX: 0000000000027100 RSI: 00007f99faa18010 RDI:
> > > > 0000000000000061
> > > > [ 3748.689150] RBP: 00007f9a8497dd60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09:
> > > > 00007f99faa18010
> > > > [ 3748.696493] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12:
> > > > 00007f99faa18010
> > > > [ 3748.703841] R13: 00005605e11c406f R14: 0000000000000001 R15:
> > > > 0000000000027100
> > >
> > > ORIG_RAX is 0, which matches sys_read.
> > > RDI is file descriptor 0x61
> > > RSI is plausibly a userspace pointer, 0x7f99faa18010
> > > RDX is the length, 0x27100 or 160kB.
> > >
> > > That all seems reasonable.
> > >
> > > What I really want to know is who is _holding_ the lock.  We stash
> > > a pointer to the task_struct in 'owner', so we could clearly find this
> > > out in the 'blocked for too long' report, and print their stack trace.
> > As described in the comment for __rwsem_set_reader_owned,it is hard to track
> > read owners.So we could not clearly find out who blocked the process,it was
> > caused by multiple tasks.
>
> Readers don't block readers.  You have a reader here, so it's being
> blocked by a writer.  And that writer's task_struct is stashed in
> rwsem->owner.  It would be nice if we dumped that information
> automatically ... but we don't do that today.  Perhaps you could
> grab that information from a crash dump if you have one.
>
> > > You must have done something like this already in order to deduce that
> > > it was the direct reclaim path that was the problem?
> > The method we used is to track the direct reclaim using the
> > trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_{begin,end} interface.When the problem
> > occurred,we could get a very large "nr_reclaimed" which is not a desirable
> > value for process except kswapd.
>
> I disagree.  If a process needs to allocate memory then it should be
> paying the cost of reclaiming that memory itself.  kswapd is a last
> resort to reclaim memory when we have a workload (eg a network router)
> that does its memory allocation primarily in interrupt context.
Yes,the process would reclaim required memory itself.But it should not 
do scan adjust too much,scan adjust is not its primary work.The scan 
adjust should be done by kswapd.

Thanks
Hongchen Zhang