Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386.
After some time it hangs and the last message line is
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]
It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large.
More than 1000000000 pages in this case:
period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000); <---------
UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here:
ick: pause : -984
ick: pages_dirtied : 0
ick: task_ratelimit: 0
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,
Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also
bounded by max_pause. It's suspected and demonstrated that the max_pause
calculation goes wrong:
ick: pause : -717
ick: min_pause : -177
ick: max_pause : -717
ick: pages_dirtied : 14
ick: task_ratelimit: 0
The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in
bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and
the min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0. Fix
all of them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function.
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foers...@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 10 +++++-----
mm/readahead.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 3f0c895..241a746 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1104,11 +1104,11 @@ static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long
dirty,
return 1;
}
-static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
- unsigned long bdi_dirty)
+static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
+ unsigned long bdi_dirty)
{
- long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
- long t;
+ unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth;
+ unsigned long t;
/*
* Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long
@@ -1120,7 +1120,7 @@ static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8));
t++;
- return min_t(long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
+ return min_t(unsigned long, t, MAX_PAUSE);
}
static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
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