While removing large number of mappings from hash page tables for
large memory systems as soft-lockup is reported because of the time
spent inside htap_remove_mapping() like one below:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s!
<snip>
NIP plpar_hcall+0x38/0x58
LR pSeries_lpar_hpte_invalidate+0x68/0xb0
Call Trace:
0x1fffffffffff000 (unreliable)
pSeries_lpar_hpte_removebolted+0x9c/0x230
hash__remove_section_mapping+0xec/0x1c0
remove_section_mapping+0x28/0x3c
arch_remove_memory+0xfc/0x150
devm_memremap_pages_release+0x180/0x2f0
devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
release_nodes+0x28c/0x300
device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x280
unbind_store+0x124/0x170
drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
__vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
vfs_write+0xd4/0x270
ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
system_call+0x5c/0x70
Fix this by adding a cond_resched() to the loop in
htap_remove_mapping() that issues hcall to remove hpte mapping. This
should prevent the soft-lockup from being reported.
Suggested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <redacted>
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arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_utils.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
While removing large number of mappings from hash page tables for
large memory systems as soft-lockup is reported because of the time
spent inside htap_remove_mapping() like one below:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s!
<snip>
NIP plpar_hcall+0x38/0x58
LR pSeries_lpar_hpte_invalidate+0x68/0xb0
Call Trace:
0x1fffffffffff000 (unreliable)
pSeries_lpar_hpte_removebolted+0x9c/0x230
hash__remove_section_mapping+0xec/0x1c0
remove_section_mapping+0x28/0x3c
arch_remove_memory+0xfc/0x150
devm_memremap_pages_release+0x180/0x2f0
devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
release_nodes+0x28c/0x300
device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x280
unbind_store+0x124/0x170
drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
__vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
vfs_write+0xd4/0x270
ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
system_call+0x5c/0x70
Fix this by adding a cond_resched() to the loop in
htap_remove_mapping() that issues hcall to remove hpte mapping. This
should prevent the soft-lockup from being reported.
Isn't it overkill to call is at each iteration ?
Looking at a few other places, there is some mitigation. For instance fadump_free_reserved_memory()
does it based on elapsed time. Another exemple is drmem_lmb_next() doing it every 16 iteration.
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Date: 2021-03-10 09:18:00
Vaibhav Jain [off-list ref] writes:
While removing large number of mappings from hash page tables for
large memory systems as soft-lockup is reported because of the time
spent inside htap_remove_mapping() like one below:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s!
<snip>
NIP plpar_hcall+0x38/0x58
LR pSeries_lpar_hpte_invalidate+0x68/0xb0
Call Trace:
0x1fffffffffff000 (unreliable)
pSeries_lpar_hpte_removebolted+0x9c/0x230
hash__remove_section_mapping+0xec/0x1c0
remove_section_mapping+0x28/0x3c
arch_remove_memory+0xfc/0x150
devm_memremap_pages_release+0x180/0x2f0
devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
release_nodes+0x28c/0x300
device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x280
unbind_store+0x124/0x170
drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
__vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
vfs_write+0xd4/0x270
ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
system_call+0x5c/0x70
Fix this by adding a cond_resched() to the loop in
htap_remove_mapping() that issues hcall to remove hpte mapping. This
should prevent the soft-lockup from being reported.
Can/should we also/instead be using H_BLOCK_REMOVE?
cheers
Hi Mpe,
Thanks for looking into this patch.
Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] writes:
Vaibhav Jain [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
While removing large number of mappings from hash page tables for
large memory systems as soft-lockup is reported because of the time
spent inside htap_remove_mapping() like one below:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s!
<snip>
NIP plpar_hcall+0x38/0x58
LR pSeries_lpar_hpte_invalidate+0x68/0xb0
Call Trace:
0x1fffffffffff000 (unreliable)
pSeries_lpar_hpte_removebolted+0x9c/0x230
hash__remove_section_mapping+0xec/0x1c0
remove_section_mapping+0x28/0x3c
arch_remove_memory+0xfc/0x150
devm_memremap_pages_release+0x180/0x2f0
devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
release_nodes+0x28c/0x300
device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x280
unbind_store+0x124/0x170
drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90
kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290
__vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
vfs_write+0xd4/0x270
ksys_write+0xdc/0x130
system_call+0x5c/0x70
Fix this by adding a cond_resched() to the loop in
htap_remove_mapping() that issues hcall to remove hpte mapping. This
should prevent the soft-lockup from being reported.
Can/should we also/instead be using H_BLOCK_REMOVE?
cheers
Current mmp_ops implementation seems to use H_BULK_REMOVE for hugepages
so for removing mappings for regular pages I am looking into adding a
new mmu_op that can take a range to be unmapped and
I did try implmenting a new mmu_op for this which can reduce the number
of hash_pte lookups needed to invalidate this range. But that would need
some more work so as a stop gap I have sent out a v2 with Christophe's
suggestion to add a cond_resched() every HZ interval.
--
Cheers
~ Vaibhav