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Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test

From Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test
Date 2016-03-04 08:40 +0100
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On 2016/3/4 14:38, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 02:05:09PM +0800, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> On 2016/3/4 12:32, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
>>> 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@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.
>> Hmm, this is not working:
> Sad to hear that.
>
> Could you tell me your system's MAX_ORDER and pageblock_order?
>

MAX_ORDER is 11, pageblock_order is 9, thanks for your help!

Hanjun

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Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-02 15:00 +0100
  Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-03-03 02:30 +0100
    Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-03 07:30 +0100
    Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 08:50 +0100
      Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-03 09:00 +0100
      Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-03 14:00 +0100
        Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-03-03 20:00 +0100
          Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-04 03:10 +0100
            Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-04 07:20 +0100
        Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-04 03:10 +0100
          Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-04 05:40 +0100
            Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-04 07:10 +0100
              Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-04 07:40 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-04 08:40 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-07 05:40 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> - 2016-03-07 09:20 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-03-07 19:50 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> - 2016-03-08 03:00 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> - 2016-03-09 02:30 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 16:10 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-11 18:10 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-14 07:50 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-14 08:10 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-14 08:20 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-14 13:40 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 15:20 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-16 13:10 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-16 10:50 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-17 08:00 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-17 10:30 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 16:40 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-17 16:50 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 17:00 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> - 2016-03-08 05:10 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-07 14:00 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-08 08:50 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> - 2016-03-08 11:50 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 16:40 +0100
                Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> - 2016-03-09 03:20 +0100
          Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-04 06:40 +0100
            Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> - 2016-03-08 02:50 +0100
              Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-08 09:10 +0100
          Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> - 2016-03-04 08:10 +0100
            Re: Suspicious error for CMA stress test Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> - 2016-03-07 05:50 +0100

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