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    blk-mq: Avoid memory reclaim when remapping queues · f4522e36
    Gabriel Krisman Bertazi authored
    commit 36e1f3d1
    
     upstream.
    
    While stressing memory and IO at the same time we changed SMT settings,
    we were able to consistently trigger deadlocks in the mm system, which
    froze the entire machine.
    
    I think that under memory stress conditions, the large allocations
    performed by blk_mq_init_rq_map may trigger a reclaim, which stalls
    waiting on the block layer remmaping completion, thus deadlocking the
    system.  The trace below was collected after the machine stalled,
    waiting for the hotplug event completion.
    
    The simplest fix for this is to make allocations in this path
    non-reclaimable, with GFP_NOIO.  With this patch, We couldn't hit the
    issue anymore.
    
    This should apply on top of Jens's for-next branch cleanly.
    
    Changes since v1:
      - Use GFP_NOIO instead of GFP_NOWAIT.
    
     Call Trace:
    [c000000f0160aaf0] [c000000f0160ab50] 0xc000000f0160ab50 (unreliable)
    [c000000f0160acc0] [c000000000016624] __switch_to+0x2e4/0x430
    [c000000f0160ad20] [c000000000b1a880] __schedule+0x310/0x9b0
    [c000000f0160ae00] [c000000000b1af68] schedule+0x48/0xc0
    [c000000f0160ae30] [c000000000b1b4b0] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x20/0x30
    [c000000f0160ae50] [c000000000b1d4fc] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xec/0x1f0
    [c000000f0160aed0] [c000000000b1d678] mutex_lock+0x78/0xa0
    [c000000f0160af00] [d000000019413cac] xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag+0x33c/0x380 [xfs]
    [c000000f0160b0b0] [d000000019415164] xfs_reclaim_inodes_nr+0x54/0x70 [xfs]
    [c000000f0160b0f0] [d0000000194297f8] xfs_fs_free_cached_objects+0x38/0x60 [xfs]
    [c000000f0160b120] [c0000000003172c8] super_cache_scan+0x1f8/0x210
    [c000000f0160b190] [c00000000026301c] shrink_slab.part.13+0x21c/0x4c0
    [c000000f0160b2d0] [c000000000268088] shrink_zone+0x2d8/0x3c0
    [c000000f0160b380] [c00000000026834c] do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x520
    [c000000f0160b450] [c00000000026876c] try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x250
    [c000000f0160b4e0] [c000000000251978] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x868/0x10d0
    [c000000f0160b6f0] [c000000000567030] blk_mq_init_rq_map+0x160/0x380
    [c000000f0160b7a0] [c00000000056758c] blk_mq_map_swqueue+0x33c/0x360
    [c000000f0160b820] [c000000000567904] blk_mq_queue_reinit+0x64/0xb0
    [c000000f0160b850] [c00000000056a16c] blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify+0x19c/0x250
    [c000000f0160b8a0] [c0000000000f5d38] notifier_call_chain+0x98/0x100
    [c000000f0160b8f0] [c0000000000c5fb0] __cpu_notify+0x70/0xe0
    [c000000f0160b930] [c0000000000c63c4] notify_prepare+0x44/0xb0
    [c000000f0160b9b0] [c0000000000c52f4] cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x84/0x250
    [c000000f0160ba10] [c0000000000c570c] cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x5c/0x120
    [c000000f0160ba60] [c0000000000c7cb8] _cpu_up+0xf8/0x1d0
    [c000000f0160bac0] [c0000000000c7eb0] do_cpu_up+0x120/0x150
    [c000000f0160bb40] [c0000000006fe024] cpu_subsys_online+0x64/0xe0
    [c000000f0160bb90] [c0000000006f5124] device_online+0xb4/0x120
    [c000000f0160bbd0] [c0000000006f5244] online_store+0xb4/0xc0
    [c000000f0160bc20] [c0000000006f0a68] dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0
    [c000000f0160bc60] [c0000000003ccc30] sysfs_kf_write+0x80/0xb0
    [c000000f0160bca0] [c0000000003cbabc] kernfs_fop_write+0x17c/0x250
    [c000000f0160bcf0] [c00000000030fe6c] __vfs_write+0x6c/0x1e0
    [c000000f0160bd90] [c000000000311490] vfs_write+0xd0/0x270
    [c000000f0160bde0] [c0000000003131fc] SyS_write+0x6c/0x110
    [c000000f0160be30] [c000000000009204] system_call+0x38/0xec
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Douglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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