Re: [RFC] Using squashfs, kernel will hung task with no free memory?

2015-01-22 Thread long.wanglong
On 2015/1/23 2:19, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> On 22/01/15 02:28, long.wanglong wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I have encountered kernel hung task when running stability and stress test.
>>
>> test scenarios:
>> 1)the kernel hungtask settings are following:
>> hung_task_panic = 1
>> hung_task_timeout_secs = 120
>> 2)the rootfs type is squashfs(read-only)
>> 
>> what the test does is to fork many child process and each process will alloc 
>> memory.
>> when there is no free memory in the system, OOM killer is triggerred. and 
>> then the kernel triggers hung task(after about five  minutes) .
>> the reason for hung task is that some process keep D states for 120 seconds.
>>
>> if there is no free memory in the system, many process state is D, they 
>> enter into D state by kernel path  `squashfs_cache_get()--->wait_event()`.
>> the backtrace is:
>>
>> [  313.950118] [] (__schedule+0x448/0x5cc) from [] 
>> (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec)
>> [  314.059660] [] (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec) from 
>> [] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c)
>> [  314.176497] [] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c) from 
>> [] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200)
>> [  314.300621] [] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200) from 
>> [] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28)
>> [  314.414325] [] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28) from [] 
>> (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0)
>> [  314.515521] [] (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0) from [] 
>> (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570)
>> [  314.618802] [] (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570) from [] 
>> (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048)
>> [  314.726250] [] (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048) from 
>> [] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218)
>> [  314.839959] [] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218) from [] 
>> (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360)
>> [  314.956788] [] (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360) from 
>> [] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70)
>> [  315.069442] [] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70) from [] 
>> (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90)
>> [  315.175850] [] (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [] 
>> (ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)
>>
>> when a task is already exiting because of OOM killer,the next time OOM 
>> killer will kill the same task.
>> so, if the first time of OOM killer select a task(A) that in D state (the 
>> task ingore exit signal beacuse of D state).
>> then the next time of OOM killer will also kill task A. In this scenario, 
>> oom killer will not free memory.
>>
>> with no free memory, many process sleep in function squashfs_cache_get. 
>> about 2 minutes, the system hung task and panic.
>> because of OOM feature and squashfs, on heavy system, This problem is easily 
>> reproduce.
>>
>> Is this a problem about squashfs or about the OOM killer. Can anyone give me 
>> some good ideas about this?
> 
> This is not a Squashfs issue, it is a well known problem with
> the OOM killer trying to kill tasks which are slow to exit (being
> in D state).  Just google "OOM hung task" to see how long this
> issue has been around.
> 
> The OOM killer is worse than useless in embedded systems because
> its behaviour is unpredictable and can leave a system in a
> zombified or half zombified state. Due to this reason many
> embedded systems disable the OOM killer entirely, and ensure
> there is adequate memory backed up by a watchdog which reboots
> a hung system.
> 
> Phillip
> 

Thanks

>>
>> Best Regards
>> Wang Long
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
> 
> 
> .
> 


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Re: [RFC] Using squashfs, kernel will hung task with no free memory?

2015-01-22 Thread Phillip Lougher

On 22/01/15 02:28, long.wanglong wrote:

hi,

I have encountered kernel hung task when running stability and stress test.

test scenarios:
1)the kernel hungtask settings are following:
hung_task_panic = 1
hung_task_timeout_secs = 120
2)the rootfs type is squashfs(read-only)

what the test does is to fork many child process and each process will alloc 
memory.
when there is no free memory in the system, OOM killer is triggerred. and then 
the kernel triggers hung task(after about five  minutes) .
the reason for hung task is that some process keep D states for 120 seconds.

if there is no free memory in the system, many process state is D, they enter into 
D state by kernel path  `squashfs_cache_get()--->wait_event()`.
the backtrace is:

[  313.950118] [] (__schedule+0x448/0x5cc) from [] 
(squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec)
[  314.059660] [] (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec) from [] 
(squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c)
[  314.176497] [] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c) from [] 
(__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200)
[  314.300621] [] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200) from 
[] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28)
[  314.414325] [] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28) from [] 
(filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0)
[  314.515521] [] (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0) from [] 
(__do_fault+0xc0/0x570)
[  314.618802] [] (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570) from [] 
(handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048)
[  314.726250] [] (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048) from [] 
(handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218)
[  314.839959] [] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218) from [] 
(do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360)
[  314.956788] [] (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360) from 
[] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70)
[  315.069442] [] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70) from [] 
(do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90)
[  315.175850] [] (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [] 
(ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

when a task is already exiting because of OOM killer,the next time OOM killer 
will kill the same task.
so, if the first time of OOM killer select a task(A) that in D state (the task 
ingore exit signal beacuse of D state).
then the next time of OOM killer will also kill task A. In this scenario, oom 
killer will not free memory.

with no free memory, many process sleep in function squashfs_cache_get. about 2 
minutes, the system hung task and panic.
because of OOM feature and squashfs, on heavy system, This problem is easily 
reproduce.

Is this a problem about squashfs or about the OOM killer. Can anyone give me 
some good ideas about this?


This is not a Squashfs issue, it is a well known problem with
the OOM killer trying to kill tasks which are slow to exit (being
in D state).  Just google "OOM hung task" to see how long this
issue has been around.

The OOM killer is worse than useless in embedded systems because
its behaviour is unpredictable and can leave a system in a
zombified or half zombified state. Due to this reason many
embedded systems disable the OOM killer entirely, and ensure
there is adequate memory backed up by a watchdog which reboots
a hung system.

Phillip



Best Regards
Wang Long









.



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Re: [RFC] Using squashfs, kernel will hung task with no free memory?

2015-01-22 Thread long.wanglong
On 2015/1/23 2:19, Phillip Lougher wrote:
 On 22/01/15 02:28, long.wanglong wrote:
 hi,

 I have encountered kernel hung task when running stability and stress test.

 test scenarios:
 1)the kernel hungtask settings are following:
 hung_task_panic = 1
 hung_task_timeout_secs = 120
 2)the rootfs type is squashfs(read-only)
 
 what the test does is to fork many child process and each process will alloc 
 memory.
 when there is no free memory in the system, OOM killer is triggerred. and 
 then the kernel triggers hung task(after about five  minutes) .
 the reason for hung task is that some process keep D states for 120 seconds.

 if there is no free memory in the system, many process state is D, they 
 enter into D state by kernel path  `squashfs_cache_get()---wait_event()`.
 the backtrace is:

 [  313.950118] [c02d2014] (__schedule+0x448/0x5cc) from [c014e510] 
 (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec)
 [  314.059660] [c014e510] (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec) from 
 [c014fd1c] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c)
 [  314.176497] [c014fd1c] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c) from 
 [c00b7be0] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200)
 [  314.300621] [c00b7be0] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200) from 
 [c00b7e98] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28)
 [  314.414325] [c00b7e98] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28) from [c00b043c] 
 (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0)
 [  314.515521] [c00b043c] (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0) from [c00c94e0] 
 (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570)
 [  314.618802] [c00c94e0] (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570) from [c00cbdc4] 
 (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048)
 [  314.726250] [c00cbdc4] (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048) from 
 [c00cd928] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218)
 [  314.839959] [c00cd928] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218) from [c02d4878] 
 (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360)
 [  314.956788] [c02d4878] (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360) from 
 [c02d4afc] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70)
 [  315.069442] [c02d4afc] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70) from [c00084cc] 
 (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90)
 [  315.175850] [c00084cc] (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [c02d3674] 
 (ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

 when a task is already exiting because of OOM killer,the next time OOM 
 killer will kill the same task.
 so, if the first time of OOM killer select a task(A) that in D state (the 
 task ingore exit signal beacuse of D state).
 then the next time of OOM killer will also kill task A. In this scenario, 
 oom killer will not free memory.

 with no free memory, many process sleep in function squashfs_cache_get. 
 about 2 minutes, the system hung task and panic.
 because of OOM feature and squashfs, on heavy system, This problem is easily 
 reproduce.

 Is this a problem about squashfs or about the OOM killer. Can anyone give me 
 some good ideas about this?
 
 This is not a Squashfs issue, it is a well known problem with
 the OOM killer trying to kill tasks which are slow to exit (being
 in D state).  Just google OOM hung task to see how long this
 issue has been around.
 
 The OOM killer is worse than useless in embedded systems because
 its behaviour is unpredictable and can leave a system in a
 zombified or half zombified state. Due to this reason many
 embedded systems disable the OOM killer entirely, and ensure
 there is adequate memory backed up by a watchdog which reboots
 a hung system.
 
 Phillip
 

Thanks


 Best Regards
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Re: [RFC] Using squashfs, kernel will hung task with no free memory?

2015-01-22 Thread Phillip Lougher

On 22/01/15 02:28, long.wanglong wrote:

hi,

I have encountered kernel hung task when running stability and stress test.

test scenarios:
1)the kernel hungtask settings are following:
hung_task_panic = 1
hung_task_timeout_secs = 120
2)the rootfs type is squashfs(read-only)

what the test does is to fork many child process and each process will alloc 
memory.
when there is no free memory in the system, OOM killer is triggerred. and then 
the kernel triggers hung task(after about five  minutes) .
the reason for hung task is that some process keep D states for 120 seconds.

if there is no free memory in the system, many process state is D, they enter into 
D state by kernel path  `squashfs_cache_get()---wait_event()`.
the backtrace is:

[  313.950118] [c02d2014] (__schedule+0x448/0x5cc) from [c014e510] 
(squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec)
[  314.059660] [c014e510] (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec) from [c014fd1c] 
(squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c)
[  314.176497] [c014fd1c] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c) from [c00b7be0] 
(__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200)
[  314.300621] [c00b7be0] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200) from 
[c00b7e98] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28)
[  314.414325] [c00b7e98] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28) from [c00b043c] 
(filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0)
[  314.515521] [c00b043c] (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0) from [c00c94e0] 
(__do_fault+0xc0/0x570)
[  314.618802] [c00c94e0] (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570) from [c00cbdc4] 
(handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048)
[  314.726250] [c00cbdc4] (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048) from [c00cd928] 
(handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218)
[  314.839959] [c00cd928] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218) from [c02d4878] 
(do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360)
[  314.956788] [c02d4878] (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360) from 
[c02d4afc] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70)
[  315.069442] [c02d4afc] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70) from [c00084cc] 
(do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90)
[  315.175850] [c00084cc] (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [c02d3674] 
(ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

when a task is already exiting because of OOM killer,the next time OOM killer 
will kill the same task.
so, if the first time of OOM killer select a task(A) that in D state (the task 
ingore exit signal beacuse of D state).
then the next time of OOM killer will also kill task A. In this scenario, oom 
killer will not free memory.

with no free memory, many process sleep in function squashfs_cache_get. about 2 
minutes, the system hung task and panic.
because of OOM feature and squashfs, on heavy system, This problem is easily 
reproduce.

Is this a problem about squashfs or about the OOM killer. Can anyone give me 
some good ideas about this?


This is not a Squashfs issue, it is a well known problem with
the OOM killer trying to kill tasks which are slow to exit (being
in D state).  Just google OOM hung task to see how long this
issue has been around.

The OOM killer is worse than useless in embedded systems because
its behaviour is unpredictable and can leave a system in a
zombified or half zombified state. Due to this reason many
embedded systems disable the OOM killer entirely, and ensure
there is adequate memory backed up by a watchdog which reboots
a hung system.

Phillip



Best Regards
Wang Long









.



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[RFC] Using squashfs, kernel will hung task with no free memory?

2015-01-21 Thread long.wanglong
hi,

I have encountered kernel hung task when running stability and stress test.

test scenarios:
1)the kernel hungtask settings are following:
hung_task_panic = 1
hung_task_timeout_secs = 120
2)the rootfs type is squashfs(read-only)

what the test does is to fork many child process and each process will alloc 
memory.
when there is no free memory in the system, OOM killer is triggerred. and then 
the kernel triggers hung task(after about five  minutes) .
the reason for hung task is that some process keep D states for 120 seconds.

if there is no free memory in the system, many process state is D, they enter 
into D state by kernel path  `squashfs_cache_get()--->wait_event()`.
the backtrace is:

[  313.950118] [] (__schedule+0x448/0x5cc) from [] 
(squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec)
[  314.059660] [] (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec) from [] 
(squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c)
[  314.176497] [] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c) from [] 
(__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200)
[  314.300621] [] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200) from 
[] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28)
[  314.414325] [] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28) from [] 
(filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0)
[  314.515521] [] (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0) from [] 
(__do_fault+0xc0/0x570)
[  314.618802] [] (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570) from [] 
(handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048)
[  314.726250] [] (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048) from [] 
(handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218)
[  314.839959] [] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218) from [] 
(do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360)
[  314.956788] [] (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360) from 
[] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70)
[  315.069442] [] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70) from [] 
(do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90)
[  315.175850] [] (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [] 
(ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

when a task is already exiting because of OOM killer,the next time OOM killer 
will kill the same task.
so, if the first time of OOM killer select a task(A) that in D state (the task 
ingore exit signal beacuse of D state).
then the next time of OOM killer will also kill task A. In this scenario, oom 
killer will not free memory.

with no free memory, many process sleep in function squashfs_cache_get. about 2 
minutes, the system hung task and panic.
because of OOM feature and squashfs, on heavy system, This problem is easily 
reproduce.

Is this a problem about squashfs or about the OOM killer. Can anyone give me 
some good ideas about this?

Best Regards
Wang Long









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[RFC] Using squashfs, kernel will hung task with no free memory?

2015-01-21 Thread long.wanglong
hi,

I have encountered kernel hung task when running stability and stress test.

test scenarios:
1)the kernel hungtask settings are following:
hung_task_panic = 1
hung_task_timeout_secs = 120
2)the rootfs type is squashfs(read-only)

what the test does is to fork many child process and each process will alloc 
memory.
when there is no free memory in the system, OOM killer is triggerred. and then 
the kernel triggers hung task(after about five  minutes) .
the reason for hung task is that some process keep D states for 120 seconds.

if there is no free memory in the system, many process state is D, they enter 
into D state by kernel path  `squashfs_cache_get()---wait_event()`.
the backtrace is:

[  313.950118] [c02d2014] (__schedule+0x448/0x5cc) from [c014e510] 
(squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec)
[  314.059660] [c014e510] (squashfs_cache_get+0x120/0x3ec) from [c014fd1c] 
(squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c)
[  314.176497] [c014fd1c] (squashfs_readpage+0x748/0xa2c) from [c00b7be0] 
(__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200)
[  314.300621] [c00b7be0] (__do_page_cache_readahead+0x1ac/0x200) from 
[c00b7e98] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28)
[  314.414325] [c00b7e98] (ra_submit+0x24/0x28) from [c00b043c] 
(filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0)
[  314.515521] [c00b043c] (filemap_fault+0x16c/0x3f0) from [c00c94e0] 
(__do_fault+0xc0/0x570)
[  314.618802] [c00c94e0] (__do_fault+0xc0/0x570) from [c00cbdc4] 
(handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048)
[  314.726250] [c00cbdc4] (handle_pte_fault+0x47c/0x1048) from [c00cd928] 
(handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218)
[  314.839959] [c00cd928] (handle_mm_fault+0x164/0x218) from [c02d4878] 
(do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360)
[  314.956788] [c02d4878] (do_page_fault.part.7+0x108/0x360) from 
[c02d4afc] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70)
[  315.069442] [c02d4afc] (do_page_fault+0x2c/0x70) from [c00084cc] 
(do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90)
[  315.175850] [c00084cc] (do_PrefetchAbort+0x2c/0x90) from [c02d3674] 
(ret_from_exception+0x0/0x10)

when a task is already exiting because of OOM killer,the next time OOM killer 
will kill the same task.
so, if the first time of OOM killer select a task(A) that in D state (the task 
ingore exit signal beacuse of D state).
then the next time of OOM killer will also kill task A. In this scenario, oom 
killer will not free memory.

with no free memory, many process sleep in function squashfs_cache_get. about 2 
minutes, the system hung task and panic.
because of OOM feature and squashfs, on heavy system, This problem is easily 
reproduce.

Is this a problem about squashfs or about the OOM killer. Can anyone give me 
some good ideas about this?

Best Regards
Wang Long









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