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From:   Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
        Song Liu <liu.song.a23@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] page cache: Store only head pages in i_pages
Date:   Sat, 01 Jun 2019 12:44:28 +0100
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Quoting Chris Wilson (2019-06-01 10:26:21)
> Quoting Matthew Wilcox (2019-03-07 15:30:51)
> > Transparent Huge Pages are currently stored in i_pages as pointers to
> > consecutive subpages.  This patch changes that to storing consecutive
> > pointers to the head page in preparation for storing huge pages more
> > efficiently in i_pages.
> > 
> > Large parts of this are "inspired" by Kirill's patch
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170126115819.58875-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com/
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> > Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > Reviewed-by: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
> > Reviewed-and-tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
> > Tested-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
> 
> I've bisected some new softlockups under THP mempressure to this patch.
> They are all rcu stalls that look similar to:
> [  242.645276] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> [  242.645293] rcu:     Tasks blocked on level-0 rcu_node (CPUs 0-3): P828
> [  242.645301]  (detected by 1, t=5252 jiffies, g=55501, q=221)
> [  242.645307] gem_syslatency  R  running task        0   828    815 0x00004000
> [  242.645315] Call Trace:
> [  242.645326]  ? __schedule+0x1a0/0x440
> [  242.645332]  ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x27/0x50
> [  242.645337]  ? apic_timer_interrupt+0xa/0x20
> [  242.645342]  ? xas_load+0x3c/0x80
> [  242.645347]  ? xas_load+0x8/0x80
> [  242.645353]  ? find_get_entry+0x4f/0x130
> [  242.645358]  ? pagecache_get_page+0x2b/0x210
> [  242.645364]  ? lookup_swap_cache+0x42/0x100
> [  242.645371]  ? do_swap_page+0x6f/0x600
> [  242.645375]  ? unmap_region+0xc2/0xe0
> [  242.645380]  ? __handle_mm_fault+0x7a9/0xfa0
> [  242.645385]  ? handle_mm_fault+0xc2/0x1c0
> [  242.645393]  ? __do_page_fault+0x198/0x410
> [  242.645399]  ? page_fault+0x5/0x20
> [  242.645404]  ? page_fault+0x1b/0x20
> 
> Any suggestions as to what information you might want?

Perhaps,
[   76.175502] page:ffffea00098e0000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1
[   76.175525] flags: 0x8000000000000000()
[   76.175533] raw: 8000000000000000 ffffea0004a7e988 ffffea000445c3c8 0000000000000000
[   76.175538] raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[   76.175543] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(entry != page)
[   76.175560] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   76.175564] kernel BUG at mm/swap_state.c:170!
[   76.175574] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[   76.175581] CPU: 0 PID: 131 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: G     U            5.1.0+ #247
[   76.175586] Hardware name:  /NUC6CAYB, BIOS AYAPLCEL.86A.0029.2016.1124.1625 11/24/2016
[   76.175598] RIP: 0010:__delete_from_swap_cache+0x22e/0x340
[   76.175604] Code: e8 b7 3e fd ff 48 01 1d a8 7e 04 01 48 83 c4 30 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 c7 c6 03 7e bf 81 48 89 c7 e8 92 f8 fd ff <0f> 0b 48 c7 c6 c8 7c bf 81 48 89 df e8 81 f8 fd ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6
[   76.175613] RSP: 0000:ffffc900008dba88 EFLAGS: 00010046
[   76.175619] RAX: 0000000000000032 RBX: ffffea00098e0040 RCX: 0000000000000006
[   76.175624] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff81bf6d4c
[   76.175629] RBP: ffff888265ed8640 R08: 00000000000002c2 R09: 0000000000000000
[   76.175634] R10: 0000000273a4626d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
[   76.175639] R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea00098e0000
[   76.175645] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888277a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   76.175651] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   76.175656] CR2: 00007f24e4399000 CR3: 0000000002c09000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
[   76.175661] Call Trace:
[   76.175671]  __remove_mapping+0x1c2/0x380
[   76.175678]  shrink_page_list+0x11db/0x1d10
[   76.175684]  shrink_inactive_list+0x14b/0x420
[   76.175690]  shrink_node_memcg+0x20e/0x740
[   76.175696]  shrink_node+0xba/0x420
[   76.175702]  balance_pgdat+0x27d/0x4d0
[   76.175709]  kswapd+0x216/0x300
[   76.175715]  ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80
[   76.175721]  ? balance_pgdat+0x4d0/0x4d0
[   76.175726]  kthread+0x106/0x120
[   76.175732]  ? kthread_create_on_node+0x40/0x40
[   76.175739]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[   76.175745] Modules linked in: i915 intel_gtt drm_kms_helper
[   76.175754] ---[ end trace 8faf2ec849d50724 ]---
[   76.206689] RIP: 0010:__delete_from_swap_cache+0x22e/0x340
[   76.206708] Code: e8 b7 3e fd ff 48 01 1d a8 7e 04 01 48 83 c4 30 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 48 c7 c6 03 7e bf 81 48 89 c7 e8 92 f8 fd ff <0f> 0b 48 c7 c6 c8 7c bf 81 48 89 df e8 81 f8 fd ff 0f 0b 48 c7 c6
[   76.206718] RSP: 0000:ffffc900008dba88 EFLAGS: 00010046
[   76.206723] RAX: 0000000000000032 RBX: ffffea00098e0040 RCX: 0000000000000006
[   76.206729] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff81bf6d4c
[   76.206734] RBP: ffff888265ed8640 R08: 00000000000002c2 R09: 0000000000000000
[   76.206740] R10: 0000000273a4626d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
[   76.206745] R13: 0000000000000040 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea00098e0000
[   76.206750] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888277a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   76.206757] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
-Chris