Thread (59 messages) 59 messages, 9 authors, 2016-03-23

Suspicious error for CMA stress test

From: guohanjun@huawei.com (Hanjun Guo)
Date: 2016-03-03 07:58:47
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On 2016/3/3 15:42, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
2016-03-03 10:25 GMT+09:00 Laura Abbott [off-list ref]:
quoted
(cc -mm and Joonsoo Kim)


On 03/02/2016 05:52 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
quoted
Hi,

I came across a suspicious error for CMA stress test:

Before the test, I got:
-bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma
CmaTotal:         204800 kB
CmaFree:          195044 kB


After running the test:
-bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Cma
CmaTotal:         204800 kB
CmaFree:         6602584 kB

So the freed CMA memory is more than total..

Also the the MemFree is more than mem total:

-bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       16342016 kB
MemFree:        22367268 kB
MemAvailable:   22370528 kB

Here is the kernel module doing the stress test below (if the test case
is wrong, correct me), any help would be great appreciated.

The test is running on ARM64 platform (hisilicon D02) with 4.4 kernel, I
think
the 4.5-rc is the same as I didn't notice the updates for it.

int malloc_dma(void *data)
{
     void *vaddr;
     struct platform_device * pdev=(struct platform_device*)data;
     dma_addr_t dma_handle;
     int i;

     for(i=0; i<1000; i++) {
         vaddr=dma_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, malloc_size, &dma_handle,
GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!vaddr)
             pr_err("alloc cma memory failed!\n");

         mdelay(1);

         if (vaddr)
                 dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev,malloc_size,vaddr,
dma_handle);
     }
     pr_info("alloc free cma memory success return!\n");
     return 0;
}

static int dma_alloc_coherent_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
     int i;

     for(i=0; i<100; i++)   {
         task[i] = kthread_create(malloc_dma,pdev,"malloc_dma_%d",i);
         if(!task[i]) {
             printk("kthread_create faile %d\n",i);
             continue;
         }
         wake_up_process(task[i]);
     }
     return 0;
}

Thanks
Hanjun

The whole /proc/meminfo:

-bash-4.3# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       16342016 kB
MemFree:        22367268 kB
MemAvailable:   22370528 kB
Buffers:            4292 kB
Cached:            36444 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:            23564 kB
Inactive:          25360 kB
Active(anon):       8424 kB
Inactive(anon):       64 kB
Active(file):      15140 kB
Inactive(file):    25296 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:                 0 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:          8196 kB
Mapped:            16448 kB
Shmem:               296 kB
Slab:              26832 kB
SReclaimable:       6300 kB
SUnreclaim:        20532 kB
KernelStack:        3088 kB
PageTables:          404 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     8171008 kB
Committed_AS:      34336 kB
VmallocTotal:   258998208 kB
VmallocUsed:           0 kB
VmallocChunk:          0 kB
AnonHugePages:         0 kB
CmaTotal:         204800 kB
CmaFree:         6602584 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
HugePages_Surp:        0
Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
I played with this a bit and can see the same problem. The sanity
check of CmaFree < CmaTotal generally triggers in
__move_zone_freepage_state in unset_migratetype_isolate.
This also seems to be present as far back as v4.0 which was the
first version to have the updated accounting from Joonsoo.
Were there known limitations with the new freepage accounting,
Joonsoo?
I don't know. I also played with this and looks like there is
accounting problem, however, for my case, number of free page is slightly less
than total. I will take a look.

Hanjun, could you tell me your malloc_size? I tested with 1 and it doesn't
look like your case.
 The malloc_size is 1M, and with 200M total (passed via boot commandline cma=200M),
any more information is needed, please let me know.

Thanks for the help!
Hanjun
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