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| author | Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> | 2017-05-15 15:13:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-04-13 19:50:09 +0200 |
| commit | d5367b8982446d191d60e57f1335726958c6242f (patch) | |
| tree | 05b76cc7c55f54675ccb042217ce0a679f359002 /kernel | |
| parent | a7147749b69ffe8b87f53104f770c796d437780b (diff) | |
sched/numa: Use down_read_trylock() for the mmap_sem
[ Upstream commit 8655d5497735b288f8a9b458bd22e7d1bf95bb61 ]
A customer has reported a soft-lockup when running an intensive
memory stress test, where the trace on multiple CPU's looks like this:
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810c53fe>]
[<ffffffff810c53fe>] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x10e/0x190
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81182d07>] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x7/0xa
[<ffffffff811bc331>] change_protection_range+0x3b1/0x930
[<ffffffff811d4be8>] change_prot_numa+0x18/0x30
[<ffffffff810adefe>] task_numa_work+0x1fe/0x310
[<ffffffff81098322>] task_work_run+0x72/0x90
Further investigation showed that the lock contention here is pmd_lock().
The task_numa_work() function makes sure that only one thread is let to perform
the work in a single scan period (via cmpxchg), but if there's a thread with
mmap_sem locked for writing for several periods, multiple threads in
task_numa_work() can build up a convoy waiting for mmap_sem for read and then
all get unblocked at once.
This patch changes the down_read() to the trylock version, which prevents the
build up. For a workload experiencing mmap_sem contention, it's probably better
to postpone the NUMA balancing work anyway. This seems to have fixed the soft
lockups involving pmd_lock(), which is in line with the convoy theory.
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515131316.21909-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 812069b66f47..3b136fb4422c 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -2223,7 +2223,8 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work) return; - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) + return; vma = find_vma(mm, start); if (!vma) { reset_ptenuma_scan(p); |