Re: [PATCH v2] mm, thp: use head page in __migration_entry_wait

[Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, Xu Yu wrote:

> We notice that hung task happens in a conner but practical scenario when

But I still don't understand what you mean by "conner":
common, corner, something else? Maybe just delete "conner but ".

> CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is enabled, as follows.
> 
> Process 0                       Process 1                     Process 2..Inf
> split_huge_page_to_list
>     unmap_page
>         split_huge_pmd_address
>                                 __migration_entry_wait(head)
>                                                               __migration_entry_wait(tail)
>     remap_page (roll back)
>         remove_migration_ptes
>             rmap_walk_anon
>                 cond_resched
> 
> Where __migration_entry_wait(tail) is occurred in kernel space, e.g.,
> copy_to_user in fstat, which will immediately fault again without
> rescheduling, and thus occupy the cpu fully.
> 
> When there are too many processes performing __migration_entry_wait on
> tail page, remap_page will never be done after cond_resched.
> 
> This makes __migration_entry_wait operate on the compound head page,
> thus waits for remap_page to complete, whether the THP is split
> successfully or roll back.
> 
> Note that put_and_wait_on_page_locked helps to drop the page reference
> acquired with get_page_unless_zero, as soon as the page is on the wait
> queue, before actually waiting. So splitting the THP is only prevented
> for a brief interval.
> 
> Fixes: ba98828088ad ("thp: add option to setup migration entries during PMD split")
> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gang Deng <gavin.dg@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com>

Thanks:
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

And I hope Andrew will add Cc stable when it goes into his tree.

I'll leave the (independent) discussion of optimal wakeup strategy
to Kirill and Matthew: no strong opinion from me, it works as it is.

> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index b234c3f3acb7..41ff2c9896c4 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -295,6 +295,7 @@ void __migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	page = migration_entry_to_page(entry);
> +	page = compound_head(page);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Once page cache replacement of page migration started, page_count
> -- 
> 2.20.1.2432.ga663e714
> 
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