Suspicious error for CMA stress test

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:02:33AM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 08:49:01PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > On 2016/3/3 15:42, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > > 2016-03-03 10:25 GMT+09:00 Laura Abbott <labbott at redhat.com>:
> > >> (cc -mm and Joonsoo Kim)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 03/02/2016 05:52 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> > >>> 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
> > [...]
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > 
> > I tested with malloc_size with 2M, and it grows much bigger than 1M, also I
> > did some other test:
> 
> Thanks! Now, I can re-generate erronous situation you mentioned.
> 
> > 
> >  - run with single thread with 100000 times, everything is fine.
> > 
> >  - I hack the cam_alloc() and free as below [1] to see if it's lock issue, with
> >    the same test with 100 multi-thread, then I got:
> 
> [1] would not be sufficient to close this race.
> 
> Try following things [A]. And, for more accurate test, I changed code a bit more
> to prevent kernel page allocation from cma area [B]. This will prevent kernel
> page allocation from cma area completely so we can focus cma_alloc/release race.
> 
> Although, this is not correct fix, it could help that we can guess
> where the problem is.

More correct fix is something like below.
Please test it.

It checks problematic buddy merging and prevent it.
I will try to find another way that is less intrusive for freepath performance.

Thanks.

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>From 855cb11368487a0f02a5ad5b3d9de375dfbb061c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim at lge.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 13:28:17 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] mm/cma: fix race

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim at lge.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c6c38ed..a01c3b5 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -620,8 +620,8 @@ static inline void rmv_page_order(struct page *page)
  *
  * For recording page's order, we use page_private(page).
  */
-static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
-                                                       unsigned int order)
+static inline int page_is_buddy(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
+                               struct page *buddy, unsigned int order)
 {
        if (!pfn_valid_within(page_to_pfn(buddy)))
                return 0;
@@ -644,6 +644,12 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
                if (page_zone_id(page) != page_zone_id(buddy))
                        return 0;
 
+               if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) &&
+                       has_isolate_pageblock(zone) &&
+                       order >= pageblock_order &&
+                       is_migrate_isolate(get_pageblock_migratetype(buddy)))
+                       return 0;
+
                VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(buddy) != 0, buddy);
 
                return 1;
@@ -711,7 +717,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
        while (order < max_order - 1) {
                buddy_idx = __find_buddy_index(page_idx, order);
                buddy = page + (buddy_idx - page_idx);
-               if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order))
+               if (!page_is_buddy(zone, page, buddy, order))
                        break;
                /*
                 * Our buddy is free or it is CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC guard page,
@@ -745,7 +751,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
                higher_page = page + (combined_idx - page_idx);
                buddy_idx = __find_buddy_index(combined_idx, order + 1);
                higher_buddy = higher_page + (buddy_idx - combined_idx);
-               if (page_is_buddy(higher_page, higher_buddy, order + 1)) {
+               if (page_is_buddy(zone, higher_page, higher_buddy, order + 1)) {
                        list_add_tail(&page->lru,
                                &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]);
                        goto out;
-- 
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