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crash with repeated cycles of memhog (x86 and x64) #19

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run:

a=1
while ((1)); do
    echo "Loop: $a"
    a=$((a = a + 1))"
    cat /proc/swaps
    cat /proc/compcache
    memhog 512m
done

2. Both on x86 and x86_64, system freezes within 5 iterations (1st
iteration is always successful).

3. System: Fedora Linux VMs:
    arch: x86, x64
    mem: 512m
    vcpus: 1

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

System freezes with nothing useful in syslog. Issued flushes after crash
using sysrq but still nothing useful in logs.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by nitingupta910@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2008 at 1:49

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This system freeze is happening since we are calling kmap() inside spin lock in
xvmalloc. kmap() can cause a reschedule which is a big NO inside spin lock.

Here is the serial o/p for crash:

BUG: spinlock cpu recursion on CPU#0, kswapd0/262  <--- cause: sched under spin 
lock
 lock: debc8044, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: memhog/2690, .owner_cpu: 0
Pid: 262, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.28 #2
Call Trace:
 [<c075f8c6>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f
 [<c0599bb3>] spin_bug+0xa3/0xf0
 [<c0599d14>] _raw_spin_lock+0x74/0x140
 [<e15853b5>] ? xvFree+0x35/0x1c0 [xvmalloc]
 [<e1585599>] ? xvMalloc+0x59/0x200 [xvmalloc]
 [<c0762de7>] _spin_lock+0x57/0x70
 [<e15853b5>] ? xvFree+0x35/0x1c0 [xvmalloc]
 [<e15853b5>] xvFree+0x35/0x1c0 [xvmalloc]
 [<e15b53d4>] compcache_make_request+0x2c4/0x4c0 [compcache]
 [<c057c6f4>] generic_make_request+0x3c4/0x4b0
 [<c0463457>] ? __lock_acquire+0x297/0x1160
 [<c04c6355>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xc5/0x120
 [<c049e423>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x13/0x20
 [<c0409531>] ? sched_clock+0x11/0x20
 [<c046195d>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x2d/0x210
 [<c04a9faa>] ? inc_zone_page_state+0x5a/0x90
 [<c057c847>] submit_bio+0x67/0xf0
 [<c0462f0b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
 [<c04a3b95>] ? test_set_page_writeback+0x75/0x120
 [<c04b8e26>] swap_writepage+0x76/0xb0
 [<c04b8e60>] ? end_swap_bio_write+0x0/0x90
 [<c04a7245>] shrink_page_list+0x615/0x830
 [<c0409531>] ? sched_clock+0x11/0x20
 [<c046195d>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x2d/0x210
 [<c04a7f8c>] shrink_zone+0x4dc/0x8f0
 [<c0762c02>] ? _spin_unlock+0x22/0x30
 [<c04a8c3b>] kswapd+0x52b/0x550
 [<c04a7530>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x200
 [<c04509f0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
 [<c04a8710>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x550
 [<c04506a1>] kthread+0x41/0x80
 [<c0450660>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
 [<c0404c7b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

Original comment by nitingupta910@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 4:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is fixed in SVN rev #151

Original comment by nitingupta910@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 4:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by nitingupta910@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 4:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Tested on both x86 and x64 with 50+ memhog cycles.

Original comment by nitingupta910@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2009 at 4:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Fixed in compcache-0.5.1

Original comment by nitingupta910@gmail.com on 27 Jan 2009 at 11:14