From 93b3a674485f6a4b8ffff85d1682d5e8b7c51560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 21:16:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm, vmstat: reduce zone->lock holding time by /proc/pagetypeinfo pagetypeinfo_showfree_print is called by zone->lock held in irq mode. This is not really nice because it blocks both any interrupts on that cpu and the page allocator. On large machines this might even trigger the hard lockup detector. Considering the pagetypeinfo is a debugging tool we do not really need exact numbers here. The primary reason to look at the outuput is to see how pageblocks are spread among different migratetypes and low number of pages is much more interesting therefore putting a bound on the number of pages on the free_list sounds like a reasonable tradeoff. The new output will simply tell [...] Node 6, zone Normal, type Movable >100000 >100000 >100000 >100000 41019 31560 23996 10054 3229 983 648 instead of Node 6, zone Normal, type Movable 399568 294127 221558 102119 41019 31560 23996 10054 3229 983 648 The limit has been chosen arbitrary and it is a subject of a future change should there be a need for that. While we are at it, also drop the zone lock after each free_list iteration which will help with the IRQ and page allocator responsiveness even further as the IRQ lock held time is always bound to those 100k pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, per David Hildenbrand] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025072610.18526-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: David Rientjes Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmstat.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 4e885ecd44d1..a8222041bd44 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1383,12 +1383,29 @@ static void pagetypeinfo_showfree_print(struct seq_file *m, unsigned long freecount = 0; struct free_area *area; struct list_head *curr; + bool overflow = false; area = &(zone->free_area[order]); - list_for_each(curr, &area->free_list[mtype]) - freecount++; - seq_printf(m, "%6lu ", freecount); + list_for_each(curr, &area->free_list[mtype]) { + /* + * Cap the free_list iteration because it might + * be really large and we are under a spinlock + * so a long time spent here could trigger a + * hard lockup detector. Anyway this is a + * debugging tool so knowing there is a handful + * of pages of this order should be more than + * sufficient. + */ + if (++freecount >= 100000) { + overflow = true; + break; + } + } + seq_printf(m, "%s%6lu ", overflow ? ">" : "", freecount); + spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lock); + cond_resched(); + spin_lock_irq(&zone->lock); } seq_putc(m, '\n'); }