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From:   Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 9 Jun 2019 00:51:20 +0800
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Subject: Re: powerpc hugepage leak caused by 576ed913 "block: use bio_add_page
 in bio_iov_iter_get_pages"
To:     David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
        Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:41 PM David Gibson
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 11:05:17AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:19:58AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Just curious:  What exact trees do you see this with?  This area
> > > changed a lot with the multipage bvec support, and subsequent fixes.
> >
> > So, I tried it with 576ed913 itself and with 576ed913^ to verify that
> > it didn't happen there.  The problem also occurred with Linus' tree as
> > of when I started bisecting, which appears to have been 444fe991.
> > Actually, come to that, here's the whole bisect log in case it's
> > helpful:
> >
> > # git bisect log
> > git bisect start
> > # good: [bebc6082da0a9f5d47a1ea2edc099bf671058bd4] Linux 4.14
> > git bisect good bebc6082da0a9f5d47a1ea2edc099bf671058bd4
> > # bad: [444fe991353987c1c9bc5ab1f903d01f1b4ad415] Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/riscv-linux
> > git bisect bad 444fe991353987c1c9bc5ab1f903d01f1b4ad415
> > # good: [399c4129eba6145924ab90363352b7bdcd554751] Merge tag 'pxa-for-4.19-dma_slave_map' of https://github.com/rjarzmik/linux
> > git bisect good 399c4129eba6145924ab90363352b7bdcd554751
> > # bad: [73b6f96cbc0162787bcbdac5f538167084c8d605] Merge branch 'drm-fixes-4.20' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-fixes
> > git bisect bad 73b6f96cbc0162787bcbdac5f538167084c8d605
> > # good: [85a585918fb4122ad26b6febaec5c3c90bf2535c] Merge tag 'loadpin-security-next' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux into next-loadpin
> > git bisect good 85a585918fb4122ad26b6febaec5c3c90bf2535c
> > # bad: [3acbd2de6bc3af215c6ed7732dfc097d1e238503] Merge tag 'sound-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound
> > git bisect bad 3acbd2de6bc3af215c6ed7732dfc097d1e238503
> > # good: [8f18da47211554f1ef674fef627c05f23b75a8e0] Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/klassert/ipsec-next
> > git bisect good 8f18da47211554f1ef674fef627c05f23b75a8e0
> > # bad: [0d1b82cd8ac2e8856ae9045c97782ac1c359929c] Merge branch 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
> > git bisect bad 0d1b82cd8ac2e8856ae9045c97782ac1c359929c
> > # bad: [1650ac53066577a5e83fe3e9d992c9311597ff8c] Merge tag 'mmc-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmc
> > git bisect bad 1650ac53066577a5e83fe3e9d992c9311597ff8c
> > # bad: [6ab9e09238fdfd742fe23b81e2d385a1cab49d9b] Merge tag 'for-4.20/block-20181021' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
> > git bisect bad 6ab9e09238fdfd742fe23b81e2d385a1cab49d9b
> > # good: [528985117126f11beea339cf39120ee99da04cd2] Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
> > git bisect good 528985117126f11beea339cf39120ee99da04cd2
> > # bad: [2cf99bbd106f89fc72f778e8ad9d5538f1ef939b] lightnvm: pblk: add helpers for chunk addresses
> > git bisect bad 2cf99bbd106f89fc72f778e8ad9d5538f1ef939b
> > # bad: [33b14f67a4e1eabd219fd6543da8f15ed86b641c] nvme: register ns_id attributes as default sysfs groups
> > git bisect bad 33b14f67a4e1eabd219fd6543da8f15ed86b641c
> > # bad: [27ca1d4ed04ea29dc77b47190a3cc82697023e76] block: move req_gap_back_merge to blk.h
> > git bisect bad 27ca1d4ed04ea29dc77b47190a3cc82697023e76
> > # bad: [07b05bcc3213ac9f8c28c9d835b4bf3d5798cc60] blkcg: convert blkg_lookup_create to find closest blkg
> > git bisect bad 07b05bcc3213ac9f8c28c9d835b4bf3d5798cc60
> > # good: [cbeb869a3d1110450186b738199963c5e68c2a71] block, bfq: correctly charge and reset entity service in all cases
> > git bisect good cbeb869a3d1110450186b738199963c5e68c2a71
> > # bad: [576ed9135489c723fb39b97c4e2c73428d06dd78] block: use bio_add_page in bio_iov_iter_get_pages
> > git bisect bad 576ed9135489c723fb39b97c4e2c73428d06dd78
> > # good: [c8765de0adfcaaf4ffb2d951e07444f00ffa9453] blok, bfq: do not plug I/O if all queues are weight-raised
> > git bisect good c8765de0adfcaaf4ffb2d951e07444f00ffa9453
> > # first bad commit: [576ed9135489c723fb39b97c4e2c73428d06dd78] block: use bio_add_page in bio_iov_iter_get_pages
> >
> > The problem also occurred with the RHEL8 downstream kernel tree.
> > That's based on 4.18, but has 576ed913 backported.
> >
> > > So I'd be really curious if it can be reproduced with Jens' latest
> > > block for-5.2 tree (which should be in latest linux-next).
> >
> > I'll see if I can try that when I next get access to the machine.
>
> Ok, I've now had a chance to test the next-20190423 tree.
>
> I can still reproduce the problem: in fact it is substantially worse,
> and somewhat more consistent.
>
> Previously I usually lost 2-3 hugepages per run, though I'd
> occasionally seen other values between 0 and 8.  With the next tree, I
> lost 46 hugepages on most runs, though I also saw 45 and 48
> occasionally.

Hi David,

The following two patches should fix the issue, please test it.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190608164853.10938-1-ming.lei@redhat.com/T/#t

Thanks,
Ming Lei