Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 4 authors, 2021-09-24

Re: [PATCH v3] mm/page_alloc: detect allocation forbidden by cpuset and bail out early

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: 2021-09-15 11:30:36
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On Wed 15-09-21 13:32:47, Feng Tang wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 05:30:03PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
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quoted
I'm wondering about a single node nodemask, for example, where all 
ZONE_NORMAL memory is hot-removed.
While this is theoretically possible it is highly unlikely to happen.
Non movable memory just takes one kernel allocation to prevent any
hotremove operation to finish. I have to say I was not aware of the
hotplug callback. It all seems rather suspicious. I will have a look.

Anyway something worth having covered "just in case". Thanks for
pointing it out.
 
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Thanks for the reminding! Yes, memory hot remove can change the
cpuset's effective nodemask, we may need to add similar check inside
cpuset_hotplug_update_tasks() which is called by cpuset_hotplug_workfn(), 
something like below?
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 7fa633e..d5f6776 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -3186,6 +3186,14 @@ static void cpuset_hotplug_update_tasks(struct cpuset *cs, struct tmpmasks *tmp)
 	cpus_updated = !cpumask_equal(&new_cpus, cs->effective_cpus);
 	mems_updated = !nodes_equal(new_mems, cs->effective_mems);
 
+	if (mems_updated && !cpusets_insane_config() &&
+		movable_only_nodes(new_mems)) {
+		static_branch_enable(&cpusets_insane_config_key);
+		pr_info("Unsupported (movable nodes only) cpuset configuration detected (nmask=%*pbl) after memory hotplug."
+			"Cpuset allocations might fail even with a lot of memory available.\n",
+			nodemask_pr_args(new_mems);
+	}
Please create a helper rather than two copies of the same. Thanks!
+
 	if (is_in_v2_mode())
 		hotplug_update_tasks(cs, &new_cpus, &new_mems,
 				     cpus_updated, mems_updated);

Thanks,
Feng
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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