Commit 36e1f3d1 authored Dec 06, 2016 by Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Committed by Jens Axboe Dec 14, 2016

blk-mq: Avoid memory reclaim when remapping queues



While stressing memory and IO at the same time we changed SMT settings,
we were able to consistently trigger deadlocks in the mm system, which
froze the entire machine.

I think that under memory stress conditions, the large allocations
performed by blk_mq_init_rq_map may trigger a reclaim, which stalls
waiting on the block layer remmaping completion, thus deadlocking the
system.  The trace below was collected after the machine stalled,
waiting for the hotplug event completion.

The simplest fix for this is to make allocations in this path
non-reclaimable, with GFP_NOIO.  With this patch, We couldn't hit the
issue anymore.

This should apply on top of Jens's for-next branch cleanly.

Changes since v1:
  - Use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_NOWAIT.

 Call Trace:
[c000000f0160aaf0] [c000000f0160ab50] 0xc000000f0160ab50 (unreliable)
[c000000f0160acc0] [c000000000016624] __switch_to+0x2e4/0x430
[c000000f0160ad20] [c000000000b1a880] __schedule+0x310/0x9b0
[c000000f0160ae00] [c000000000b1af68] schedule+0x48/0xc0
[c000000f0160ae30] [c000000000b1b4b0] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x20/0x30
[c000000f0160ae50] [c000000000b1d4fc] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xec/0x1f0
[c000000f0160aed0] [c000000000b1d678] mutex_lock+0x78/0xa0
[c000000f0160af00] [d000000019413cac] xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag+0x33c/0x380 [xfs]
[c000000f0160b0b0] [d000000019415164] xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr+0x54/0x70 [xfs]
[c000000f0160b0f0] [d0000000194297f8] xfs_fs_free_cached_objects+0x38/0x60 [xfs]
[c000000f0160b120] [c0000000003172c8] super_cache_scan+0x1f8/0x210
[c000000f0160b190] [c00000000026301c] shrink_slab.part.13+0x21c/0x4c0
[c000000f0160b2d0] [c000000000268088] shrink_zone+0x2d8/0x3c0
[c000000f0160b380] [c00000000026834c] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x520
[c000000f0160b450] [c00000000026876c] try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x250
[c000000f0160b4e0] [c000000000251978] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x868/0x10d0
[c000000f0160b6f0] [c000000000567030] blk_mq_init_rq_map+0x160/0x380
[c000000f0160b7a0] [c00000000056758c] blk_mq_map_swqueue+0x33c/0x360
[c000000f0160b820] [c000000000567904] blk_mq_queue_reinit+0x64/0xb0
[c000000f0160b850] [c00000000056a16c] blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify+0x19c/0x250
[c000000f0160b8a0] [c0000000000f5d38] notifier_call_chain+0x98/0x100
[c000000f0160b8f0] [c0000000000c5fb0] __cpu_notify+0x70/0xe0
[c000000f0160b930] [c0000000000c63c4] notify_prepare+0x44/0xb0
[c000000f0160b9b0] [c0000000000c52f4] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x84/0x250
[c000000f0160ba10] [c0000000000c570c] cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x5c/0x120
[c000000f0160ba60] [c0000000000c7cb8] _cpu_up+0xf8/0x1d0
[c000000f0160bac0] [c0000000000c7eb0] do_cpu_up+0x120/0x150
[c000000f0160bb40] [c0000000006fe024] cpu_subsys_online+0x64/0xe0
[c000000f0160bb90] [c0000000006f5124] device_online+0xb4/0x120
[c000000f0160bbd0] [c0000000006f5244] online_store+0xb4/0xc0
[c000000f0160bc20] [c0000000006f0a68] dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0
[c000000f0160bc60] [c0000000003ccc30] sysfs_kf_write+0x80/0xb0
[c000000f0160bca0] [c0000000003cbabc] kernfs_fop_write+0x17c/0x250
[c000000f0160bcf0] [c00000000030fe6c] __vfs_write+0x6c/0x1e0
[c000000f0160bd90] [c000000000311490] vfs_write+0xd0/0x270
[c000000f0160bde0] [c0000000003131fc] SyS_write+0x6c/0x110
[c000000f0160be30] [c000000000009204] system_call+0x38/0xec

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Douglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

parent 7a62a523

block/blk-mq.c

+3 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1605,7 +1605,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set set,
		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tags->page_list);

		tags->rqs = kzalloc_node(set->queue_depth * sizeof(struct request *),
		GFP_KERNEL \| __GFP_NOWARN \| __GFP_NORETRY,
		GFP_NOIO \| __GFP_NOWARN \| __GFP_NORETRY,
		set->numa_node);
		if (!tags->rqs) {
		blk_mq_free_tags(tags);
		@@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set set,

		do {
		page = alloc_pages_node(set->numa_node,
		GFP_KERNEL \| __GFP_NOWARN \| __GFP_NORETRY \| __GFP_ZERO,
		GFP_NOIO \| __GFP_NOWARN \| __GFP_NORETRY \| __GFP_ZERO,
		this_order);
		if (page)
		break;
		@@ -1652,7 +1652,7 @@ static struct blk_mq_tags blk_mq_init_rq_map(struct blk_mq_tag_set set,
		* Allow kmemleak to scan these pages as they contain pointers
		* to additional allocations like via ops->init_request().
		*/
		kmemleak_alloc(p, order_to_size(this_order), 1, GFP_KERNEL);
		kmemleak_alloc(p, order_to_size(this_order), 1, GFP_NOIO);
		entries_per_page = order_to_size(this_order) / rq_size;
		to_do = min(entries_per_page, set->queue_depth - i);
		left -= to_do * rq_size;

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