From 8655d5497735b288f8a9b458bd22e7d1bf95bb61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:13:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched/numa: Use down_read_trylock() for the mmap_sem A customer has reported a soft-lockup when running an intensive memory stress test, where the trace on multiple CPU's looks like this: RIP: 0010:[] [] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x10e/0x190 ... Call Trace: [] queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x7/0xa [] change_protection_range+0x3b1/0x930 [] change_prot_numa+0x18/0x30 [] task_numa_work+0x1fe/0x310 [] task_work_run+0x72/0x90 Further investigation showed that the lock contention here is pmd_lock(). The task_numa_work() function makes sure that only one thread is let to perform the work in a single scan period (via cmpxchg), but if there's a thread with mmap_sem locked for writing for several periods, multiple threads in task_numa_work() can build up a convoy waiting for mmap_sem for read and then all get unblocked at once. This patch changes the down_read() to the trylock version, which prevents the build up. For a workload experiencing mmap_sem contention, it's probably better to postpone the NUMA balancing work anyway. This seems to have fixed the soft lockups involving pmd_lock(), which is in line with the convoy theory. Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515131316.21909-1-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 219fe58e3023..47a0c552c77b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -2470,7 +2470,8 @@ void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work) return; - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) + return; vma = find_vma(mm, start); if (!vma) { reset_ptenuma_scan(p);