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Omar Sandoval c12cd77cb0 mm/vmalloc: fix spinning drain_vmap_work after reading from /proc/vmcore 
Commit 3ee48b6af4 ("mm, x86: Saving vmcore with non-lazy freeing of
vmas") introduced set_iounmap_nonlazy(), which sets vmap_lazy_nr to
lazy_max_pages() + 1, ensuring that any future vunmaps() immediately
purge the vmap areas instead of doing it lazily.

Commit 690467c81b ("mm/vmalloc: Move draining areas out of caller
context") moved the purging from the vunmap() caller to a worker thread.
Unfortunately, set_iounmap_nonlazy() can cause the worker thread to spin
(possibly forever).  For example, consider the following scenario:

 1. Thread reads from /proc/vmcore. This eventually calls
    __copy_oldmem_page() -> set_iounmap_nonlazy(), which sets
    vmap_lazy_nr to lazy_max_pages() + 1.

 2. Then it calls free_vmap_area_noflush() (via iounmap()), which adds 2
    pages (one page plus the guard page) to the purge list and
    vmap_lazy_nr. vmap_lazy_nr is now lazy_max_pages() + 3, so the
    drain_vmap_work is scheduled.

 3. Thread returns from the kernel and is scheduled out.

 4. Worker thread is scheduled in and calls drain_vmap_area_work(). It
    frees the 2 pages on the purge list. vmap_lazy_nr is now
    lazy_max_pages() + 1.

 5. This is still over the threshold, so it tries to purge areas again,
    but doesn't find anything.

 6. Repeat 5.

If the system is running with only one CPU (which is typicial for kdump)
and preemption is disabled, then this will never make forward progress:
there aren't any more pages to purge, so it hangs.  If there is more
than one CPU or preemption is enabled, then the worker thread will spin
forever in the background.  (Note that if there were already pages to be
purged at the time that set_iounmap_nonlazy() was called, this bug is
avoided.)

This can be reproduced with anything that reads from /proc/vmcore
multiple times.  E.g., vmcore-dmesg /proc/vmcore.

It turns out that improvements to vmap() over the years have obsoleted
the need for this "optimization".  I benchmarked `dd if=/proc/vmcore
of=/dev/null` with 4k and 1M read sizes on a system with a 32GB vmcore.
The test was run on 5.17, 5.18-rc1 with a fix that avoided the hang, and
5.18-rc1 with set_iounmap_nonlazy() removed entirely:

    |5.17  |5.18+fix|5.18+removal
  4k|40.86s|  40.09s|      26.73s
  1M|24.47s|  23.98s|      21.84s

The removal was the fastest (by a wide margin with 4k reads).  This
patch removes set_iounmap_nonlazy().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/52f819991051f9b865e9ce25605509bfdbacadcd.1649277321.git.osandov@fb.com
Fixes: 690467c81b  ("mm/vmalloc: Move draining areas out of caller context")
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
arch mm/vmalloc: fix spinning drain_vmap_work after reading from /proc/vmcore 2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
block for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation Networking fixes for 5.18-rc3, including fixes from wireless and 2022-04-14 11:58:19 -07:00
drivers Networking fixes for 5.18-rc3, including fixes from wireless and 2022-04-14 11:58:19 -07:00
fs revert "fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE" 2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
include mm, kfence: support kmem_dump_obj() for KFENCE objects 2022-04-15 14:49:55 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel irq_work: use kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() record callstack 2022-04-15 14:49:55 -07:00
lib Driver core changes for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 09:55:09 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm/vmalloc: fix spinning drain_vmap_work after reading from /proc/vmcore 2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc3, including fixes from wireless and 2022-04-14 11:58:19 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts hardening fixes for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-12 14:29:40 -10:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc3 2022-04-14 11:08:12 -07:00
tools x86: 2022-04-12 14:16:33 -10:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.18, take #1 2022-04-08 12:30:04 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Vasily Averin's email address 2022-04-08 14:20:36 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Broadcom internal lists aren't maintainers 2022-04-15 14:49:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 14:21:36 -10:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.