Re: Hard and soft lockups with FIO and LTP runs on a large system

[Mateusz Guzik]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/3/24 5:11 PM, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > The general observation is that the problem usually surfaces when the
> > system free memory goes very low and page cache/buffer consumption hits
> > the ceiling. Most of the times the two contended locks are lruvec and
> > inode->i_lock spinlocks.
> >
[snip mm stuff]

There are numerous avoidable i_lock acquires (including some only
showing up under load), but I don't know if they play any role in this
particular test.

Collecting all traces would definitely help, locked up or not, for example:
bpftrace -e 'kprobe:queued_spin_lock_slowpath { @[kstack()] = count();
}' -o traces

As for clear_shadow_entry mentioned in the opening mail, the content is:
        spin_lock(&mapping->host->i_lock);
        xa_lock_irq(&mapping->i_pages);
        __clear_shadow_entry(mapping, index, entry);
        xa_unlock_irq(&mapping->i_pages);
        if (mapping_shrinkable(mapping))
                inode_add_lru(mapping->host);
        spin_unlock(&mapping->host->i_lock);

so for all I know it's all about the xarray thing, not the i_lock per se.
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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>