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[02/19] mm: memcg: fix memcg reclaim soft lockup

Message ID 20200904233527.1lOZT1GXC%akpm@linux-foundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [01/19] memcg: fix use-after-free in uncharge_batch | expand

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Andrew Morton Sept. 4, 2020, 11:35 p.m. UTC 
From: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: mm: memcg: fix memcg reclaim soft lockup

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1598495549-67324-1-git-send-email-xlpang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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 mm/vmscan.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
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--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-memcg-fix-memcg-reclaim-soft-lockup
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2615,6 +2615,14 @@  static void shrink_node_memcgs(pg_data_t
 		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();
+
 		mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(target_memcg, memcg);
 
 		if (mem_cgroup_below_min(memcg)) {