Re: [BUG] trigger BUG_ON in mas_store_prealloc when low memory

["Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>]

* John Hsu (許永翰) <John.Hsu@mediatek.com> [230614 03:06]:
> Hi Liam, thanks for your reply.

Sorry, your email response with top posting is hard to follow so I will
do my best to answer your questions.

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> version 6.1 or 6.1.x?  Which exact version (git id or version number)
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> Our environment is kernel-6.1.25-mainline-android14-5-gdea04bf2c398d.

Okay, I can have a look at 6.1.25 then.

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> This BUG_ON() is necessary since this function should _never_ run out of
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> memory; this function does not return an error code. mas_preallocate()
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> should have gotten you the memory necessary (or returned an -ENOMEM)
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> prior to the call to mas_store_prealloc(), so this is probably an
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> internal tree problem.
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> There is a tree operation being performed here.  mprotect is merging a
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> vma by the looks of the call stack.  Why do you think no tree operation
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> is necessary?
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> As you mentioned, mas_preallocate() should allocate enough node, but there is such functions mas_node_count() in mas_store_prealloc().
> In mas_node_count() checks whether the *mas* has enough nodes, and allocate memory for node if there was no enough nodes in mas.

Right, we call mas_node_count() so that both code paths are used for
preallocations and regular mas_store()/mas_store_gfp().  It shouldn't
take a significant amount of time to verify there is enough nodes.

> I think that if mas_preallocate() allocate enough node, why we check the node count and allocate nodes if there was no enough nodes in mas in mas_node_count()?

We check for the above reason.

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> We have seen that there may be some maple_tree operations in merge_vma...

If merge_vma() does anything, then there was an operation to the maple
tree.

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> Moreover, would maple_tree provides an API for assigning user's gfp flag for allocating node?

mas_preallocate() and mas_store_gfp() has gfp flags as an argument.  In
your call stack, it will be called in __vma_adjust() as such:

if (mas_preallocate(&mas, vma, GFP_KERNEL))
	return -ENOMEM;

line 715 in v6.1.25

> In rb_tree, we allocate vma_area_struct (rb_node is in this struct.) with GFP_KERNEL, and maple_tree allocate node with GFP_NOWAIT and __GFP_NOWARN.

We use GFP_KERNEL as I explained above for the VMA tree.

It also will drop the lock and retry with GFP_KERNEL on failure
when not using the external lock.  The mmap_lock is configured as an
external lock.

> Allocation will not wait for reclaiming and compacting when there is no enough available memory.
> Is there any concern for this design?

This has been addressed above, but let me know if I missed anything
here.

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> I see this is arm64.  Do you have a reproducer?  If you don't have a
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> reproducer, I can try stress-ng on amr64 to simulate your workload using
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> mprotect, but I need to know the exact kernel version as this issue may
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> have been fixed in a later stable release.
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> It is offen occur under low memory condiction. Maybe you can try stress-ng on arm64 under high memory stress(e.g. reserved lots of memory).

Okay, I will try arm64 with v6.1.25.

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> > following are the backtrace:
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> > mas_store_prealloc+0x23c/0x484
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> > vma_mas_store+0xe4/0x2d0
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> > __vma_adjust+0xab0/0x1470
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> > vma_merge+0x5b8/0x5d4
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> > mprotect_fixup+0x1f4/0x478
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> > __arm64_sys_mprotect+0x6b0/0x8f0
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> > invoke_syscall+0x84/0x264
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> > el0_svc_common+0x118/0x1f0
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> > do_el0_svc+0x5c/0x184
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> > el0_svc+0x38/0x98
> 

Thanks,
Liam