[LTP] [PATCH RFC] move_pages12: handle errno EBUSY for madvise(..., MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE)

Li Wang liwang@redhat.com
Mon Jun 24 04:43:52 CEST 2019


Hi Xu Yang,

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 1:58 PM Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
wrote:

>
> > Hi Li Wang,
> >
> > Thank you for maintaining the testcase.
> >
> > Recently (since 4.19) we have a semantics change on the return value of
> > madvise(MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE), and we see -EBUSY when hugepage migration
> > succeeded and error containment failed:
> >
> >   commit 6bc9b56433b76e40d11099338d27fbc5cd2935ca
> >   Author: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> >   Date:   Thu Aug 23 17:00:38 2018 -0700
> >
> >       mm: fix race on soft-offlining free huge pages
> >
> > , so we don't have to consider this EBUSY as error, but a good report
> > for application. Your change meets the change.
> >
> > Feel free to add my ack:
> >
> > Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Naoya
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 05:52:13PM +0800, Li Wang wrote:
> >> The test#2 is going to simulate the race condition, where move_pages()
> >> and soft offline are called on a single hugetlb page concurrently. But,
> >> it return EBUSY and report FAIL in soft-offline a moving hugepage as a
> >> result sometimes.
> >>
> >> The root cause seems a call to page_huge_active return false, then the
> >> soft offline action will failed to isolate hugepage with EBUSY return as
> >> below call trace:
> >>
> >> In Parent:
> >>   madvise(..., MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE)
> >>   ...
> >>     soft_offline_page
> >>       soft_offline_in_use_page
> >>         soft_offline_huge_page
> >>           isolate_huge_page
> >>             page_huge_active  --> return false at here
> >>
> >> In Child:
> >>   move_pages()
> >>   ...
> >>     do_move_pages
> >>       do_move_pages_to_node
> >>         add_page_for_migration
> >>           isolate_huge_page   --> it has already isolated the hugepage
> >>
> >> In this patch, I simply regard the returned EBUSY as a normal situation
> and
> >> mask it in error handler. Because move_pages is calling
> add_page_for_migration
> >> to isolate hugepage before do migration, so that's very possible to hit
> the
> >> collision and return EBUSY on the same page.
> >>
> >> Error log:
> >> ----------
> >> move_pages12.c:235: INFO: Free RAM 8386256 kB
> >> move_pages12.c:253: INFO: Increasing 2048kB hugepages pool on node 0 to
> 4
> >> move_pages12.c:263: INFO: Increasing 2048kB hugepages pool on node 1 to
> 6
> >> move_pages12.c:179: INFO: Allocating and freeing 4 hugepages on node 0
> >> move_pages12.c:179: INFO: Allocating and freeing 4 hugepages on node 1
> >> move_pages12.c:169: PASS: Bug not reproduced
> >> move_pages12.c:81: FAIL: madvise failed: SUCCESS
> >> move_pages12.c:81: FAIL: madvise failed: SUCCESS
> >> move_pages12.c:143: BROK: mmap((nil),4194304,3,262178,-1,0) failed:
> ENOMEM
> >> move_pages12.c:114: FAIL: move_pages failed: EINVAL
> >>
> >> Dmesg:
> >> ------
> >> [165435.492170] soft offline: 0x61c00 hugepage failed to isolate
> >> [165435.590252] soft offline: 0x61c00 hugepage failed to isolate
> >> [165435.725493] soft offline: 0x61400 hugepage failed to isolate
> >>
> >> Other two fixes in this patch:
> >>  * use TERRNO(but not TTERRNO) to catch madvise(..., MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE)
> errno
> >>  * go out test when hugepage allocating failed with ENOMEM
> Hi Li
>
> Your patch can handle EBUSY errno correctly for soft offline.
> But move page  may be killed by SIGBUS because of  MCE  when we soft
> offline concurrently.
> That leads to move_page failed with ESRCH.   Also, move page may fails
> with ENOMEM .
> Do you notice it ?
>

I didn't get this failure, it seems not related to this patch. Two
questions:

1. which kernel version do you test?
2. can you reproduce this without my patch?



>
> I think ESRCH error can represent the soft offline bug not reproduce
> because it don't trigger a crash.
> What do you think about it?
>

Maybe, but it needs to check details on your kernel.

>
> err_log:
> tst_test.c:1096: INFO: Timeout per run is 0h 05m 00s
> move_pages12.c:236: INFO: Free RAM 119568 kB
> move_pages12.c:254: INFO: Increasing 2048kB hugepages pool on node 0 to 83
> move_pages12.c:264: INFO: Increasing 2048kB hugepages pool on node 1 to 94
> move_pages12.c:180: INFO: Allocating and freeing 4 hugepages on node 0
> move_pages12.c:180: INFO: Allocating and freeing 4 hugepages on node 1
> move_pages12.c:170: PASS: Bug not reproduced
> tst_test.c:1141: BROK: Test killed by SIGBUS!
>
> Summary:
> passed   1
> failed   0
> skipped  0
> warnings 0
>
> move_pages12.c:114: FAIL: move_pages failed: ESRCH
>
> dmesg
> [ 9868.180669] MCE: Killing move_pages12:29616 due to hardware memory
> corruption fault at 2aaaaac00018
> [ 9990.049875] Soft offlining page 50e00 at 2aaaaac00000
> [ 9990.052218] Soft offlining page 50c00 at 2aaaaae00000
> [ 9990.060395] Soft offlining page 51000 at 2aaaaac00000
>
> Kind Regards,
> Yang Xu
>
> >> Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> >> Cc: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
> >> Cc: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
> >> ---
> >>  .../kernel/syscalls/move_pages/move_pages12.c | 33 ++++++++++++++-----
> >>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/move_pages/move_pages12.c
> b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/move_pages/move_pages12.c
> >> index 964b712fb..c446396dc 100644
> >> --- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/move_pages/move_pages12.c
> >> +++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/move_pages/move_pages12.c
> >> @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ static void *addr;
> >>  static int do_soft_offline(int tpgs)
> >>  {
> >>      if (madvise(addr, tpgs * hpsz, MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) == -1) {
> >> -            if (errno != EINVAL)
> >> -                    tst_res(TFAIL | TTERRNO, "madvise failed");
> >> +            if (errno != EINVAL && errno != EBUSY)
> >> +                    tst_res(TFAIL | TERRNO, "madvise failed");
> >>              return errno;
> >>      }
> >>      return 0;
> >> @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ static void do_child(int tpgs)
> >>
> >>  static void do_test(unsigned int n)
> >>  {
> >> -    int i;
> >> +    int i, ret;
> >> +    void *ptr;
> >>      pid_t cpid = -1;
> >>      int status;
> >>      unsigned int twenty_percent = (tst_timeout_remaining() / 5);
> >> @@ -136,24 +137,37 @@ static void do_test(unsigned int n)
> >>              do_child(tcases[n].tpages);
> >>
> >>      for (i = 0; i < LOOPS; i++) {
> >> -            void *ptr;
> >> +            ptr = mmap(NULL, tcases[n].tpages * hpsz,
> >> +                            PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> >> +                            MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB,
> -1, 0);
> >> +            if (ptr == MAP_FAILED) {
> >> +                    if (errno == ENOMEM) {
> >> +                            tst_res(TCONF,
> >> +                                    "Cannot allocate hugepage, memory
> too fragmented?");
> >> +                            goto out;
> >> +                    }
> >> +
> >> +                    tst_brk(TBROK | TERRNO, "Cannot allocate
> hugepage");
> >> +            }
> >>
> >> -            ptr = SAFE_MMAP(NULL, tcases[n].tpages * hpsz,
> >> -                    PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
> >> -                    MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB, -1, 0);
> >>              if (ptr != addr)
> >>                      tst_brk(TBROK, "Failed to mmap at desired addr");
> >>
> >>              memset(addr, 0, tcases[n].tpages * hpsz);
> >>
> >>              if (tcases[n].offline) {
> >> -                    if (do_soft_offline(tcases[n].tpages) == EINVAL) {
> >> +                    ret = do_soft_offline(tcases[n].tpages);
> >> +
> >> +                    if (ret == EINVAL) {
> >>                              SAFE_KILL(cpid, SIGKILL);
> >>                              SAFE_WAITPID(cpid, &status, 0);
> >>                              SAFE_MUNMAP(addr, tcases[n].tpages * hpsz);
> >>                              tst_res(TCONF,
> >>                                      "madvise() didn't support
> MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE");
> >>                              return;
> >> +                    } else if (ret == EBUSY) {
> >> +                            SAFE_MUNMAP(addr, tcases[n].tpages * hpsz);
> >> +                            goto out;
> >>                      }
> >>              }
> >>
> >> @@ -163,9 +177,10 @@ static void do_test(unsigned int n)
> >>                      break;
> >>      }
> >>
> >> +out:
> >>      SAFE_KILL(cpid, SIGKILL);
> >>      SAFE_WAITPID(cpid, &status, 0);
> >> -    if (!WIFEXITED(status))
> >> +    if (!WIFEXITED(status) && ptr != MAP_FAILED)
> >>              tst_res(TPASS, "Bug not reproduced");
> >>  }
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.20.1
> >>
> >>
> >
> > .
> >
>
>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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