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To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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On 01.04.20 17:45, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 01-04-20 12:41:55, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> With CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT and without CONFIG_PREEMPT, it can
>> happen that we get RCU stalls detected when booting up.
>>
>> [   60.474005] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
>> [   60.475000] rcu:  1-...0: (0 ticks this GP) idle=02a/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=1/1 fqs=15000
>> [   60.475000] rcu:  (detected by 0, t=60002 jiffies, g=-1199, q=1)
>> [   60.475000] Sending NMI from CPU 0 to CPUs 1:
>> [    1.760091] NMI backtrace for cpu 1
>> [    1.760091] CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: pgdatinit0 Not tainted 4.18.0-147.9.1.el8_1.x86_64 #1
>> [    1.760091] Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-1.module+el8.2.0+5520+4e5817f3 04/01/2014
>> [    1.760091] RIP: 0010:__init_single_page.isra.65+0x10/0x4f
>> [    1.760091] Code: 48 83 cf 63 48 89 f8 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 c6 48 89 d7 e8 6b 18 80 ff 66 90 5b c3 31 c0 b9 10 00 00 00 49 89 f8 48 c1 e6 33 f3 ab <b8> 07 00 00 00 48 c1 e2 36 41 c7 40 34 01 00 00 00 48 c1 e0 33 41
>> [    1.760091] RSP: 0000:ffffba783123be40 EFLAGS: 00000006
>> [    1.760091] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: fffffad34405e300 RCX: 0000000000000000
>> [    1.760091] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0010000000000000 RDI: fffffad34405e340
>> [    1.760091] RBP: 0000000033f3177e R08: fffffad34405e300 R09: 0000000000000002
>> [    1.760091] R10: 000000000000002b R11: ffff98afb691a500 R12: 0000000000000002
>> [    1.760091] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000003f03ea00 R15: 000000003e10178c
>> [    1.760091] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c9ebeb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [    1.760091] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>> [    1.760091] CR2: 00000000ffffffff CR3: 000000a1cf20a001 CR4: 00000000003606e0
>> [    1.760091] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
>> [    1.760091] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
>> [    1.760091] Call Trace:
>> [    1.760091]  deferred_init_pages+0x8f/0xbf
>> [    1.760091]  deferred_init_memmap+0x184/0x29d
>> [    1.760091]  ? deferred_free_pages.isra.97+0xba/0xba
>> [    1.760091]  kthread+0x112/0x130
>> [    1.760091]  ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
>> [    1.760091]  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
>> [   89.123011] node 0 initialised, 1055935372 pages in 88650ms
>>
>> The issue becomes visible when having a lot of memory (e.g., 4TB)
>> assigned to a single NUMA node - a system that can easily be created
>> using QEMU. Inside VMs on a hypervisor with quite some memory
>> overcommit, this is fairly easy to trigger.
>>
>> Adding the cond_resched() makes RCU happy.
> 
> I believe the patch you depend on is a wrong way to go so please let's
> wait until that settles down. 

I saw a RB as a reply and thought this would get picked up fairly soon.
But sure, let's see how that will look like. Thanks

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb