On 10/10/2013 12:33 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 09.10.2013 23:47, schrieb Jan Kara:
>> On Wed 09-10-13 20:43:50, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> CC'ing mm folks.
>>> Please see below.
>> Added Fenguang to CC since he is the author of this code.
>
> Thx, get_maintainer.pl didn't list him.
>
>>> Am 09.10.2013 19:26, schrieb Toralf Förster:
>>>> On 10/08/2013 10:07 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hmm, now pages_dirtied is zero, according to the backtrace, but the
>>>>>>> BUG_ON()
>>>>>>> asserts its strict positive?!?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you please try the following instead of the BUG_ON():
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if (pause < 0) {
>>>>>>> printk("pages_dirtied = %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
>>>>>>> printk("task_ratelimit = %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
>>>>>>> printk("pause = %ld\n", pause);
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Geert
>>>>>> I tried it in different ways already - I'm completely unsuccessful in
>>>>>> getting any printk output.
>>>>>> As soon as the issue happens I do have a
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> at stderr of the UML and then no further input is accepted. With
>>>>>> uml_mconsole I'm however able
>>>>>> to run very basic commands like a crash dump, sysrq ond so on.
>>>>>
>>>>> You may get an idea of the magnitude of pages_dirtied by using a chain of
>>>>> BUG_ON()s, like:
>>>>>
>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000);
>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 100000000);
>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 10000000);
>>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000);
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably 1 million is already too much for normal operation?
>>>>>
>>>> period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
>>>> BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000); <-------------- this
>>>> is line 1467
>>>
>>> Summary for mm people:
>>>
>>> Toralf runs trinty on UML/i386.
>>> After some time pages_dirtied becomes very large.
>>> More than 1000000000 pages in this case.
>> Huh, this is really strange. pages_dirtied is passed into
>> balance_dirty_pages() from current->nr_dirtied. So I wonder how a value
>> over 10^9 can get there. After all that is over 4TB so I somewhat doubt the
>> task was ever able to dirty that much during its lifetime (but correct me
>> if I'm wrong here, with UML and memory backed disks it is not totally
>> impossible)... I went through the logic of handling ->nr_dirtied but
>> I didn't find any obvious problem there. Hum, maybe one thing - what
>> 'task_ratelimit' values do you see in balance_dirty_pages? If that one was
>> huge, we could possibly accumulate huge current->nr_dirtied.
>
> Toralf, you can try a snipplet like this one to get the values printed out:
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index f5236f8..a80e520 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -1463,6 +1463,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space
> *mapping,
> goto pause;
> }
> period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
> +
> + {
> + extern int printf(char *, ...);
> + printf("---> task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
> + }
> +
> pause = period;
> if (current->dirty_paused_when)
> pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when;
>
>
> Yes, printf(), not printk().
> Using this hack we print directly to host's stdout. :)
>
*head smack* ofc - works fine.
So given this diff :
iff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index f5236f8..5a2c337 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,13 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space
*mapping,
}
period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
pause = period;
+ if (pause < 0) {
+ extern int printf(char *, ...);
+ printf("overflow : pause : %li\n", pause);
+ printf("overflow : pages_dirtied : %lu\n",
pages_dirtied);
+ printf("overflow : task_ratelimit: %lu\n",
task_ratelimit);
+ BUG_ON(1);
+ }
if (current->dirty_paused_when)
pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when;
/*
@@ -1503,6 +1510,13 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space
*mapping,
}
pause:
+ if (pause < 0) {
+ extern int printf(char *, ...);
+ printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
+ printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
+ printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
+ BUG_ON(1);
+ }
trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,
dirty_thresh,
background_thresh,
I got this :
* Starting local
net.core.warnings = 0
[ ok ]
ick : pause : -984
ick: pages_dirtied : 0
ick: task_ratelimit: 0
Kernel panic -
not syncing: BUG!
CPU: 0 PID: 1434 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted
3.12.0-rc4-00029-g0e7a3ed-dirty #12
47397c84 47397cb0 0841b5a0 084c30e8 085f76e0 084b4745 47397cbc 00000000
fffffc28 01fff278 085cb4a0 47397d2c 0841c5a0 084b4745 084c5398 000005ee
08432cf0 43e47600 471757f8 47397cf0 ffffff0c 47397cdc 5256d8b9 3417ec18
47397c5c: [<08060b2c>] show_stack+0x7c/0xd0
47397c7c: [<0841e34d>] dump_stack+0x26/0x28
47397c8c: [<0841b5a0>] panic+0x7a/0x180
47397cb4: [<0841c5a0>] balance_dirty_pages.isra.32+0x4e3/0x5ad
47397d30: [<080d3595>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0xf5/0x100
47397d44: [<080e4a3f>] __do_fault+0x3cf/0x440
47397d9c: [<080e6e0f>] handle_mm_fault+0xef/0x7c0
47397dec: [<080e7817>] __get_user_pages+0x227/0x420
47397e24: [<080e7ae3>] get_user_pages+0x63/0x70
47397e4c: [<08143dc6>] SyS_io_setup+0x3c6/0x760
47397eb0: [<08062984>] handle_syscall+0x64/0x80
47397ef0: [<08074fb5>] userspace+0x475/0x5f0
47397fec: [<0805f750>] fork_handler+0x60/0x70
47397ffc: [<00000000>] 0x0
EIP: 0073:[<40001282>] CPU: 0 Not tainted ESP: 007b:bfb348f8 EFLAGS: 00000246
Not tainted
EAX: ffffffda EBX: 00001000 ECX: 080d0000 EDX: 80000048
ESI: 80fbff1f EDI: ffe02f77 EBP: 90f6e2a3 DS: 007b ES: 007b
47397c0c: [<0807947f>] show_regs+0x10f/0x120
47397c28: [<080623a9>] panic_exit+0x29/0x50
47397c38: [<0809ba86>] notifier_call_chain+0x36/0x60
47397c60: [<0809bba1>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x21/0x30
47397c70: [<0809bbdf>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x2f/0x40
47397c8c: [<0841b5bc>] panic+0x96/0x180
47397cb4: [<0841c5a0>] balance_dirty_pages.isra.32+0x4e3/0x5ad
47397d30: [<080d3595>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited+0xf5/0x100
47397d44: [<080e4a3f>] __do_fault+0x3cf/0x440
47397d9c: [<080e6e0f>] handle_mm_fault+0xef/0x7c0
47397dec: [<080e7817>] __get_user_pages+0x227/0x420
47397e24: [<080e7ae3>] get_user_pages+0x63/0x70
47397e4c: [<08143dc6>] SyS_io_setup+0x3c6/0x760
47397eb0: [<08062984>] handle_syscall+0x64/0x80
47397ef0: [<08074fb5>] userspace+0x475/0x5f0
47397fec: [<0805f750>] fork_handler+0x60/0x70
47397ffc: [<00000000>] 0x0
/home/tfoerste/workspace/bin/start_uml.sh: line 115: 18718 Aborted
(core dumped) $LINUX earlyprintk ubda=$ROOTFS ubdb=$SWAP eth0=$NET mem=$MEM
$TTY umid=uml_$NAME rootfstype=ext4 "$ARGS"
From what I see there are 2 different types of issues - and this is an example
of the other of both
> Thanks,
> //richard
>
--
MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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