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

[Feng Tang]

Hi Hongchen,

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.

In your previous mail, you mentioned panic happened. Maybe you can try
appending "panic_print=0x1" to kernel command line , as it could print
the call stacks of all tasks on panic(the info could be huge).

Initially, we added it also to debug some deadlock (hunging task) bug. 

Thanks,
Feng