On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:21:21PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:

On Tue 22-06-21 18:50:30, Rafael Aquini wrote:

quoted

On non-preemptible kernel builds the watchdog can complain
about soft lockups when vfree() is called against large
vmalloc areas:

[  210.851798] kvmalloc-test: vmalloc(2199023255552) succeeded
[  238.654842] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#181 stuck for 26s! [rmmod:5203]
[  238.662716] Modules linked in: kvmalloc_test(OE-) ...
[  238.772671] CPU: 181 PID: 5203 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G S         OE     5.13.0-rc7+ #1
[  238.781413] Hardware name: Intel Corporation PURLEY/PURLEY, BIOS PLYXCRB1.86B.0553.D01.1809190614 09/19/2018
[  238.792383] RIP: 0010:free_unref_page+0x52/0x60
[  238.797447] Code: 48 c1 fd 06 48 89 ee e8 9c d0 ff ff 84 c0 74 19 9c 41 5c fa 48 89 ee 48 89 df e8 b9 ea ff ff 41 f7 c4 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb 5b <5d> 41 5c c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f0 29 77
[  238.818406] RSP: 0018:ffffb4d87868fe98 EFLAGS: 00000206
[  238.824236] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000001da0c945 RCX: ffffb4d87868fe40
[  238.832200] RDX: ffffd79d3beed108 RSI: ffffd7998501dc08 RDI: ffff9c6fbffd7010
[  238.840166] RBP: 000000000d518cbd R08: ffffd7998501dc08 R09: 0000000000000001
[  238.848131] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffd79d3beee088 R12: 0000000000000202
[  238.856095] R13: ffff9e5be3eceec0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[  238.864059] FS:  00007fe082c2d740(0000) GS:ffff9f4c69b40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  238.873089] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  238.879503] CR2: 000055a000611128 CR3: 000000f6094f6006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[  238.887467] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  238.895433] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  238.903397] PKRU: 55555554
[  238.906417] Call Trace:
[  238.909149]  __vunmap+0x17c/0x220
[  238.912851]  __x64_sys_delete_module+0x13a/0x250
[  238.918008]  ? syscall_trace_enter.isra.20+0x13c/0x1b0
[  238.923746]  do_syscall_64+0x39/0x80
[  238.927740]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Like in other range zapping routines that iterate over
a large list, lets just add cond_resched() within __vunmap()'s
page-releasing loop in order to avoid the watchdog splats.

cond_resched makes a lot of sense. We do not want vmalloc to be visible
the userspace (e.g. by stalling it) so all time consuming operations
should yield regularly whenever possible. I would expect that any
susbsystem which needs huge vmalloc areas would have it for the whole
boot life time so such large vfrees should be really rare.

There is at least one more place with potentially similar issue. I see that
the bulk allocator disables irqs during obtaining pages and filling an array.

So i suspect if we request a huge size to allocate over vmalloc same soft
lockup should occur. For example 10G alloactions simultaneously on different
CPUs.

I will try to reproduce it on !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel and post feedback here.

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Vlad Rezki