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  1. 06 8月, 2019 1 次提交
    • D
      mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock · b6962996
      由 Dave Chinner 提交于 
      commit 64081362e8ff4587b4554087f3cfc73d3e0a4cd7 upstream.

We've recently seen a workload on XFS filesystems with a repeatable
deadlock between background writeback and a multi-process application
doing concurrent writes and fsyncs to a small range of a file.

range_cyclic
writeback		Process 1		Process 2

xfs_vm_writepages
  write_cache_pages
    writeback_index = 2
    cycled = 0
    ....
    find page 2 dirty
    lock Page 2
    ->writepage
      page 2 writeback
      page 2 clean
      page 2 added to bio
    no more pages
			write()
			locks page 1
			dirties page 1
			locks page 2
			dirties page 1
			fsync()
			....
			xfs_vm_writepages
			write_cache_pages
			  start index 0
			  find page 1 towrite
			  lock Page 1
			  ->writepage
			    page 1 writeback
			    page 1 clean
			    page 1 added to bio
			  find page 2 towrite
			  lock Page 2
			  page 2 is writeback
			  <blocks>
						write()
						locks page 1
						dirties page 1
						fsync()
						....
						xfs_vm_writepages
						write_cache_pages
						  start index 0

    !done && !cycled
      sets index to 0, restarts lookup
    find page 1 dirty
						  find page 1 towrite
						  lock Page 1
						  page 1 is writeback
						  <blocks>

    lock Page 1
    <blocks>

DEADLOCK because:

	- process 1 needs page 2 writeback to complete to make
	  enough progress to issue IO pending for page 1
	- writeback needs page 1 writeback to complete so process 2
	  can progress and unlock the page it is blocked on, then it
	  can issue the IO pending for page 2
	- process 2 can't make progress until process 1 issues IO
	  for page 1

The underlying cause of the problem here is that range_cyclic writeback is
processing pages in descending index order as we hold higher index pages
in a structure controlled from above write_cache_pages().  The
write_cache_pages() caller needs to be able to submit these pages for IO
before write_cache_pages restarts writeback at mapping index 0 to avoid
wcp inverting the page lock/writeback wait order.

generic_writepages() is not susceptible to this bug as it has no private
context held across write_cache_pages() - filesystems using this
infrastructure always submit pages in ->writepage immediately and so there
is no problem with range_cyclic going back to mapping index 0.

However:
	mpage_writepages() has a private bio context,
	exofs_writepages() has page_collect
	fuse_writepages() has fuse_fill_wb_data
	nfs_writepages() has nfs_pageio_descriptor
	xfs_vm_writepages() has xfs_writepage_ctx

All of these ->writepages implementations can hold pages under writeback
in their private structures until write_cache_pages() returns, and hence
they are all susceptible to this deadlock.

Also worth noting is that ext4 has it's own bastardised version of
write_cache_pages() and so it /may/ have an equivalent deadlock.  I looked
at the code long enough to understand that it has a similar retry loop for
range_cyclic writeback reaching the end of the file and then promptly ran
away before my eyes bled too much.  I'll leave it for the ext4 developers
to determine if their code is actually has this deadlock and how to fix it
if it has.

There's a few ways I can see avoid this deadlock.  There's probably more,
but these are the first I've though of:

1. get rid of range_cyclic altogether

2. range_cyclic always stops at EOF, and we start again from
writeback index 0 on the next call into write_cache_pages()

2a. wcp also returns EAGAIN to ->writepages implementations to
indicate range cyclic has hit EOF. writepages implementations can
then flush the current context and call wpc again to continue. i.e.
lift the retry into the ->writepages implementation

3. range_cyclic uses trylock_page() rather than lock_page(), and it
skips pages it can't lock without blocking. It will already do this
for pages under writeback, so this seems like a no-brainer

3a. all non-WB_SYNC_ALL writeback uses trylock_page() to avoid
blocking as per pages under writeback.

I don't think #1 is an option - range_cyclic prevents frequently
dirtied lower file offset from starving background writeback of
rarely touched higher file offsets.

performance as going back to the start of the file implies an
immediate seek. We'll have exactly the same number of seeks if we
switch writeback to another inode, and then come back to this one
later and restart from index 0.

retry loop up into the wcp caller means we can issue IO on the
pending pages before calling wcp again, and so avoid locking or
waiting on pages in the wrong order. I'm not convinced we need to do
this given that we get the same thing from #2 on the next writeback
call from the writeback infrastructure.

inversion problem, just prevents it from becoming a deadlock
situation. I'd prefer we fix the inversion, not sweep it under the
carpet like this.

band-aid fix of #3.

So it seems that the simplest way to fix this issue is to implement
solution #2

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181005054526.21507-1-david@fromorbit.comSigned-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.de>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJoseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: NCaspar Zhang <caspar@linux.alibaba.com>
      b6962996
  3. 26 1月, 2019 1 次提交
    • B
      mm/page-writeback.c: don't break integrity writeback on ->writepage() error · dc15e3fd
      由 Brian Foster 提交于 
      [ Upstream commit 3fa750dcf29e8606e3969d13d8e188cc1c0f511d ]

write_cache_pages() is used in both background and integrity writeback
scenarios by various filesystems.  Background writeback is mostly
concerned with cleaning a certain number of dirty pages based on various
mm heuristics.  It may not write the full set of dirty pages or wait for
I/O to complete.  Integrity writeback is responsible for persisting a set
of dirty pages before the writeback job completes.  For example, an
fsync() call must perform integrity writeback to ensure data is on disk
before the call returns.

write_cache_pages() unconditionally breaks out of its processing loop in
the event of a ->writepage() error.  This is fine for background
writeback, which had no strict requirements and will eventually come
around again.  This can cause problems for integrity writeback on
filesystems that might need to clean up state associated with failed page
writeouts.  For example, XFS performs internal delayed allocation
accounting before returning a ->writepage() error, where applicable.  If
the current writeback happens to be associated with an unmount and
write_cache_pages() completes the writeback prematurely due to error, the
filesystem is unmounted in an inconsistent state if dirty+delalloc pages
still exist.

To handle this problem, update write_cache_pages() to always process the
full set of pages for integrity writeback regardless of ->writepage()
errors.  Save the first encountered error and return it to the caller once
complete.  This facilitates XFS (or any other fs that expects integrity
writeback to process the entire set of dirty pages) to clean up its
internal state completely in the event of persistent mapping errors.
Background writeback continues to exit on the first error encountered.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181116134304.32440-1-bfoster@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NBrian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
      dc15e3fd
  5. 30 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  7. 18 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  9. 21 4月, 2018 1 次提交
    • G
      writeback: safer lock nesting · 2e898e4c
      由 Greg Thelen 提交于 
      lock_page_memcg()/unlock_page_memcg() use spin_lock_irqsave/restore() if
the page's memcg is undergoing move accounting, which occurs when a
process leaves its memcg for a new one that has
memory.move_charge_at_immigrate set.

unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin,end() use spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq() if
the given inode is switching writeback domains.  Switches occur when
enough writes are issued from a new domain.

This existing pattern is thus suspicious:
    lock_page_memcg(page);
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &locked);
    ...
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, locked);
    unlock_page_memcg(page);

If both inode switch and process memcg migration are both in-flight then
unlocked_inode_to_wb_end() will unconditionally enable interrupts while
still holding the lock_page_memcg() irq spinlock.  This suggests the
possibility of deadlock if an interrupt occurs before unlock_page_memcg().

    truncate
    __cancel_dirty_page
    lock_page_memcg
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin
    unlocked_inode_to_wb_end
    <interrupts mistakenly enabled>
                                    <interrupt>
                                    end_page_writeback
                                    test_clear_page_writeback
                                    lock_page_memcg
                                    <deadlock>
    unlock_page_memcg

Due to configuration limitations this deadlock is not currently possible
because we don't mix cgroup writeback (a cgroupv2 feature) and
memory.move_charge_at_immigrate (a cgroupv1 feature).

If the kernel is hacked to always claim inode switching and memcg
moving_account, then this script triggers lockup in less than a minute:

  cd /mnt/cgroup/memory
  mkdir a b
  echo 1 > a/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate
  echo 1 > b/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate
  (
    echo $BASHPID > a/cgroup.procs
    while true; do
      dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/big bs=1M count=256
    done
  ) &
  while true; do
    sync
  done &
  sleep 1h &
  SLEEP=$!
  while true; do
    echo $SLEEP > a/cgroup.procs
    echo $SLEEP > b/cgroup.procs
  done

The deadlock does not seem possible, so it's debatable if there's any
reason to modify the kernel.  I suggest we should to prevent future
surprises.  And Wang Long said "this deadlock occurs three times in our
environment", so there's more reason to apply this, even to stable.
Stable 4.4 has minor conflicts applying this patch.  For a clean 4.4 patch
see "[PATCH for-4.4] writeback: safer lock nesting"
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/11/146

Wang Long said "this deadlock occurs three times in our environment"

[gthelen@google.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180411084653.254724-1-gthelen@google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment tweaks, struct initialization simplification]
Change-Id: Ibb773e8045852978f6207074491d262f1b3fb613
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180410005908.167976-1-gthelen@google.com
Fixes: 682aa8e1 ("writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates")
Signed-off-by: NGreg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reported-by: NWang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com>
Acked-by: NWang Long <wanglong19@meituan.com>
Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[v4.2+]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2e898e4c
  11. 12 4月, 2018 1 次提交
  13. 30 11月, 2017 1 次提交
    • M
      Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" · 90daf306
      由 Michal Hocko 提交于 
      This reverts commit 0f6d24f8 ("mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning
if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical") because it causes false
positive warnings during OOM situations as noticed by Tetsuo Handa:

  Node 0 active_anon:3525940kB inactive_anon:8372kB active_file:216kB inactive_file:1872kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:2504kB dirty:52kB writeback:0kB shmem:8660kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 636928kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? yes
  Node 0 DMA free:14848kB min:284kB low:352kB high:420kB active_anon:992kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15988kB managed:15904kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:24kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2687 3645 3645
  Node 0 DMA32 free:53004kB min:49608kB low:62008kB high:74408kB active_anon:2712648kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:3129216kB managed:2773132kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:96kB pagetables:5096kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 958 958
  Node 0 Normal free:17140kB min:17684kB low:22104kB high:26524kB active_anon:812300kB inactive_anon:8372kB active_file:1228kB inactive_file:1868kB unevictable:0kB writepending:52kB present:1048576kB managed:981224kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:3520kB pagetables:8552kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:120kB local_pcp:120kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
  [...]
  Out of memory: Kill process 8459 (a.out) score 999 or sacrifice child
  Killed process 8459 (a.out) total-vm:4180kB, anon-rss:88kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  oom_reaper: reaped process 8459 (a.out), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit.

The problem is that both thresh and bg_thresh will be 0 if
available_memory is less than 4 pages when evaluating
global_dirtyable_memory.

While this might be worked around the whole point of the warning is
dubious at best.  We do rely on admins to do sensible things when
changing tunable knobs.  Dirty memory writeback knobs are not any
special in that regards so revert the warning rather than adding more
hacks to work this around.

Debugged by Yafang Shao.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127091939.tahb77nznytcxw55@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 0f6d24f8 ("mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical")
Signed-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: NTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      90daf306
  15. 22 11月, 2017 1 次提交
    • K
      block/laptop_mode: Convert timers to use timer_setup() · bca237a5
      由 Kees Cook 提交于 
      In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      bca237a5
  17. 16 11月, 2017 8 次提交
  19. 14 10月, 2017 1 次提交
  21. 09 10月, 2017 1 次提交
  23. 03 10月, 2017 2 次提交
  25. 07 9月, 2017 1 次提交
  27. 19 8月, 2017 1 次提交
    • J
      mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() · 739f79fc
      由 Johannes Weiner 提交于 
      Jaegeuk and Brad report a NULL pointer crash when writeback ending tries
to update the memcg stats:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000003b0
    IP: test_clear_page_writeback+0x12e/0x2c0
    [...]
    RIP: 0010:test_clear_page_writeback+0x12e/0x2c0
    Call Trace:
     <IRQ>
     end_page_writeback+0x47/0x70
     f2fs_write_end_io+0x76/0x180 [f2fs]
     bio_endio+0x9f/0x120
     blk_update_request+0xa8/0x2f0
     scsi_end_request+0x39/0x1d0
     scsi_io_completion+0x211/0x690
     scsi_finish_command+0xd9/0x120
     scsi_softirq_done+0x127/0x150
     __blk_mq_complete_request_remote+0x13/0x20
     flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x56/0x110
     generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x30
     smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x27/0x40
     call_function_single_interrupt+0x89/0x90
    RIP: 0010:native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10

    (gdb) l *(test_clear_page_writeback+0x12e)
    0xffffffff811bae3e is in test_clear_page_writeback (./include/linux/memcontrol.h:619).
    614		mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), idx, val);
    615		if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !page->mem_cgroup)
    616			return;
    617		mod_memcg_state(page->mem_cgroup, idx, val);
    618		pn = page->mem_cgroup->nodeinfo[page_to_nid(page)];
    619		this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stat->count[idx], val);
    620	}
    621
    622	unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order,
    623							gfp_t gfp_mask,

The issue is that writeback doesn't hold a page reference and the page
might get freed after PG_writeback is cleared (and the mapping is
unlocked) in test_clear_page_writeback().  The stat functions looking up
the page's node or zone are safe, as those attributes are static across
allocation and free cycles.  But page->mem_cgroup is not, and it will
get cleared if we race with truncation or migration.

It appears this race window has been around for a while, but less likely
to trigger when the memcg stats were updated first thing after
PG_writeback is cleared.  Recent changes reshuffled this code to update
the global node stats before the memcg ones, though, stretching the race
window out to an extent where people can reproduce the problem.

Update test_clear_page_writeback() to look up and pin page->mem_cgroup
before clearing PG_writeback, then not use that pointer afterward.  It
is a partial revert of 62cccb8c ("mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()")
but leaves the pageref-holding callsites that aren't affected alone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809183825.GA26387@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: 62cccb8c ("mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()")
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NBradley Bolen <bradleybolen@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NBrad Bolen <bradleybolen@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.6+]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      739f79fc
  29. 13 7月, 2017 1 次提交
  31. 07 7月, 2017 1 次提交
  33. 06 7月, 2017 2 次提交
  35. 04 5月, 2017 3 次提交
  37. 28 4月, 2017 1 次提交
    • T
      mm: retry writepages() on ENOMEM when doing an data integrity writeback · 80a2ea9f
      由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于 
      Currently, file system's writepages() function must not fail with an
ENOMEM, since if they do, it's possible for buffered data to be lost.
This is because on a data integrity writeback writepages() gets called
but once, and if it returns ENOMEM, if you're lucky the error will get
reflected back to the userspace process calling fsync().  If you
aren't lucky, the user is unmounting the file system, and the dirty
pages will simply be lost.

For this reason, file system code generally will use GFP_NOFS, and in
some cases, will retry the allocation in a loop, on the theory that
"kernel livelocks are temporary; data loss is forever".
Unfortunately, this can indeed cause livelocks, since inside the
writepages() call, the file system is holding various mutexes, and
these mutexes may prevent the OOM killer from killing its targetted
victim if it is also holding on to those mutexes.

A better solution would be to allow writepages() to call the memory
allocator with flags that give greater latitude to the allocator to
fail, and then release its locks and return ENOMEM, and in the case of
background writeback, the writes can be retried at a later time.  In
the case of data-integrity writeback retry after waiting a brief
amount of time.
Signed-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      80a2ea9f
  39. 02 3月, 2017 1 次提交
  41. 28 2月, 2017 1 次提交
  43. 25 2月, 2017 1 次提交
  45. 02 2月, 2017 1 次提交
  47. 15 12月, 2016 1 次提交
  49. 08 11月, 2016 1 次提交
  51. 08 10月, 2016 2 次提交
    • H
      mm: don't use radix tree writeback tags for pages in swap cache · 371a096e
      由 Huang Ying 提交于 
      File pages use a set of radix tree tags (DIRTY, TOWRITE, WRITEBACK,
etc.) to accelerate finding the pages with a specific tag in the radix
tree during inode writeback.  But for anonymous pages in the swap cache,
there is no inode writeback.  So there is no need to find the pages with
some writeback tags in the radix tree.  It is not necessary to touch
radix tree writeback tags for pages in the swap cache.

Per Rik van Riel's suggestion, a new flag AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS is
introduced for address spaces which don't need to update the writeback
tags.  The flag is set for swap caches.  It may be used for DAX file
systems, etc.

With this patch, the swap out bandwidth improved 22.3% (from ~1.2GB/s to
~1.48GBps) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case with 8 processes.
The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system.  The swap device used is a RAM
simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device.  The improvement comes from
the reduced contention on the swap cache radix tree lock.  To test
sequential swapping out, the test case uses 8 processes, which
sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until RAM and
part of the swap device is used up.

Details of comparison is as follow,

base             base+patch
---------------- --------------------------
         %stddev     %change         %stddev
             \          |                \
   2506952 ±  2%     +28.1%    3212076 ±  7%  vm-scalability.throughput
   1207402 ±  7%     +22.3%    1476578 ±  6%  vmstat.swap.so
     10.86 ± 12%     -23.4%       8.31 ± 16%  perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list
     10.82 ± 13%     -33.1%       7.24 ± 14%  perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_zone_memcg
     10.36 ± 11%    -100.0%       0.00 ± -1%  perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__test_set_page_writeback.bdev_write_page.__swap_writepage.swap_writepage
     10.52 ± 12%    -100.0%       0.00 ± -1%  perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.test_clear_page_writeback.end_page_writeback.page_endio.pmem_rw_page

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472578089-5560-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.comSigned-off-by: N"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      371a096e
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      mm, vmscan: get rid of throttle_vm_writeout · bf484383
      由 Michal Hocko 提交于 
      throttle_vm_writeout() was introduced back in 2005 to fix OOMs caused by
excessive pageout activity during the reclaim.  Too many pages could be
put under writeback therefore LRUs would be full of unreclaimable pages
until the IO completes and in turn the OOM killer could be invoked.

There have been some important changes introduced since then in the
reclaim path though.  Writers are throttled by balance_dirty_pages when
initiating the buffered IO and later during the memory pressure, the
direct reclaim is throttled by wait_iff_congested if the node is
considered congested by dirty pages on LRUs and the underlying bdi is
congested by the queued IO.  The kswapd is throttled as well if it
encounters pages marked for immediate reclaim or under writeback which
signals that that there are too many pages under writeback already.
Finally should_reclaim_retry does congestion_wait if the reclaim cannot
make any progress and there are too many dirty/writeback pages.

Another important aspect is that we do not issue any IO from the direct
reclaim context anymore.  In a heavy parallel load this could queue a
lot of IO which would be very scattered and thus unefficient which would
just make the problem worse.

This three mechanisms should throttle and keep the amount of IO in a
steady state even under heavy IO and memory pressure so yet another
throttling point doesn't really seem helpful.  Quite contrary, Mikulas
Patocka has reported that swap backed by dm-crypt doesn't work properly
because the swapout IO cannot make sufficient progress as the writeout
path depends on dm_crypt worker which has to allocate memory to perform
the encryption.  In order to guarantee a forward progress it relies on
the mempool allocator.  mempool_alloc(), however, prefers to use the
underlying (usually page) allocator before it grabs objects from the
pool.  Such an allocation can dive into the memory reclaim and
consequently to throttle_vm_writeout.  If there are too many dirty or
pages under writeback it will get throttled even though it is in fact a
flusher to clear pending pages.

  kworker/u4:0    D ffff88003df7f438 10488     6      2	0x00000000
  Workqueue: kcryptd kcryptd_crypt [dm_crypt]
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x3c/0x90
    schedule_timeout+0x1d8/0x360
    io_schedule_timeout+0xa4/0x110
    congestion_wait+0x86/0x1f0
    throttle_vm_writeout+0x44/0xd0
    shrink_zone_memcg+0x613/0x720
    shrink_zone+0xe0/0x300
    do_try_to_free_pages+0x1ad/0x450
    try_to_free_pages+0xef/0x300
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x879/0x1210
    alloc_pages_current+0xa1/0x1f0
    new_slab+0x2d7/0x6a0
    ___slab_alloc+0x3fb/0x5c0
    __slab_alloc+0x51/0x90
    kmem_cache_alloc+0x27b/0x310
    mempool_alloc_slab+0x1d/0x30
    mempool_alloc+0x91/0x230
    bio_alloc_bioset+0xbd/0x260
    kcryptd_crypt+0x114/0x3b0 [dm_crypt]

Let's just drop throttle_vm_writeout altogether.  It is not very much
helpful anymore.

I have tried to test a potential writeback IO runaway similar to the one
described in the original patch which has introduced that [1].  Small
virtual machine (512MB RAM, 4 CPUs, 2G of swap space and disk image on a
rather slow NFS in a sync mode on the host) with 8 parallel writers each
writing 1G worth of data.  As soon as the pagecache fills up and the
direct reclaim hits then I start anon memory consumer in a loop
(allocating 300M and exiting after populating it) in the background to
make the memory pressure even stronger as well as to disrupt the steady
state for the IO.  The direct reclaim is throttled because of the
congestion as well as kswapd hitting congestion_wait due to nr_immediate
but throttle_vm_writeout doesn't ever trigger the sleep throughout the
test.  Dirty+writeback are close to nr_dirty_threshold with some
fluctuations caused by the anon consumer.

[1] https://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm3/broken-out/vm-pageout-throttling.patch
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471171473-21418-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: NMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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