linux/kernel
Johannes Weiner 4e37504d1c psi: avoid divide-by-zero crash inside virtual machines
We've been seeing hard-to-trigger psi crashes when running inside VM
instances:

    divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
    Modules linked in: [...]
    CPU: 0 PID: 212 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 4.16.18-119_fbk9_3817_gfe944c98d695 #119
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
    Workqueue: events psi_clock
    RIP: 0010:psi_update_stats+0x270/0x490
    RSP: 0018:ffffc90001117e10 EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff8800a35a13f8
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8800a35a1340 RDI: 0000000000000000
    RBP: 0000000000000658 R08: ffff8800a35a1470 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000000f8502
    FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88023fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00007fbe370fa000 CR3: 00000000b1e3a000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
    DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    Call Trace:
     psi_clock+0x12/0x50
     process_one_work+0x1e0/0x390
     worker_thread+0x2b/0x3c0
     ? rescuer_thread+0x330/0x330
     kthread+0x113/0x130
     ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
     ? SyS_exit_group+0x10/0x10
     ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
    Code: 48 0f 47 c7 48 01 c2 45 85 e4 48 89 16 0f 85 e6 00 00 00 4c 8b 49 10 4c 8b 51 08 49 69 d9 f2 07 00 00 48 6b c0 64 4c 8b 29 31 d2 <48> f7 f7 49 69 d5 8d 06 00 00 48 89 c5 4c 69 f0 00 98 0b 00 48

The Code-line points to `period` being 0 inside update_stats(), and we
divide by that when calculating that period's pressure percentage.

The elapsed period should never be 0.  The reason this can happen is due
to an off-by-one in the idle time / missing period calculation combined
with a coarse sched_clock() in the virtual machine.

The target time for aggregation is advanced into the future on a fixed
grid to prevent clock drift.  So when an aggregation runs after some idle
period, we can not just set it to "now + psi_period", but have to
calculate the downtime and advance the target time relative to itself.

However, if the aggregator was disabled exactly one psi_period (ns), we
drop one idle period in the calculation due to a > when we should do >=.
In that case, next_update will be advanced from 'now - psi_period' to
'now' when it should be moved to 'now + psi_period'.  The run finishes
with last_update == next_update == sched_clock().

With hardware clocks, this exact nanosecond match isn't likely in the
first place; but if it does happen, the clock will still have moved on and
the period non-zero by the time the worker runs.  A pointlessly short
period, but besides the extra work, no harm no foul.  However, a slow
sched_clock() like we have on VMs might not have advanced either by the
time the worker runs again.  And when we calculate the elapsed period, the
result, our pressure divisor, will be 0.  Ouch.

Fix this by correctly handling the situation when the elapsed time between
aggregation runs is precisely two periods, and advance the expiration
timestamp correctly to period into the future.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214193157.15788-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Łukasz Siudut <lsiudut@fb.com
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-02-21 09:01:00 -08:00
..
bpf bpf: fix lockdep false positive in stackmap 2019-02-11 16:36:24 +01:00
cgroup Merge branch 'for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-12-29 10:57:20 -08:00
configs kvm_config: add CONFIG_VIRTIO_MENU 2018-10-24 20:55:56 -04:00
debug kdb: use bool for binary state indicators 2018-12-30 08:31:52 +00:00
dma swiotlb: clear io_tlb_start and io_tlb_end in swiotlb_exit 2019-01-16 09:59:17 -05:00
events perf/core: Fix impossible ring-buffer sizes warning 2019-02-13 08:05:02 +01:00
gcov
irq genirq/irqdesc: Fix double increment in alloc_descs() 2019-01-18 00:43:09 +01:00
livepatch livepatch: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() 2018-12-01 12:38:50 -08:00
locking futex: Handle early deadlock return correctly 2019-02-08 13:00:36 +01:00
power mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
printk Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
rcu rcutorture: Don't do busted forward-progress testing 2018-12-01 12:45:42 -08:00
sched psi: avoid divide-by-zero crash inside virtual machines 2019-02-21 09:01:00 -08:00
time posix-cpu-timers: Unbreak timer rearming 2019-01-15 16:34:37 +01:00
trace Two more tracing fixes 2019-02-18 09:40:16 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c audit: minimize our use of audit_log_format() 2018-11-26 18:40:00 -05:00
audit_tree.c audit: minimize our use of audit_log_format() 2018-11-26 18:40:00 -05:00
audit_watch.c audit: minimize our use of audit_log_format() 2018-11-26 18:40:00 -05:00
audit.c audit: remove duplicated include from audit.c 2018-12-14 12:09:30 -05:00
audit.h audit: use current whenever possible 2018-11-26 18:41:21 -05:00
auditfilter.c audit: rename FILTER_TYPE to FILTER_EXCLUDE 2018-06-19 10:39:54 -04:00
auditsc.c audit: use current whenever possible 2018-11-26 18:41:21 -05:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c kbuild: fix kernel/bounds.c 'W=1' warning 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
capability.c
compat.c make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()' 2019-01-04 12:56:09 -08:00
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM 2019-01-30 19:27:00 +01:00
crash_core.c kernel/crash_core.c: print timestamp using time64_t 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c cred: export get_task_cred(). 2018-12-19 13:52:44 -05:00
delayacct.c delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
extable.c
fail_function.c kernel/fail_function.c: remove meaningless null pointer check before debugfs_remove_recursive 2018-10-31 08:54:12 -07:00
fork.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-08 18:58:29 -08:00
freezer.c PM / reboot: Eliminate race between reboot and suspend 2018-08-06 12:35:20 +02:00
futex.c futex: Handle early deadlock return correctly 2019-02-08 13:00:36 +01:00
groups.c
hung_task.c kernel/hung_task.c: break RCU locks based on jiffies 2019-01-04 13:13:45 -08:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: reduce size a little on 64-bit 2018-09-10 22:54:33 +09:00
kcmp.c
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt kconfig: warn no new line at end of file 2018-12-15 17:44:35 +09:00
kcov.c kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
kexec_core.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
kexec_file.c kexec_file: kexec_walk_memblock() only walks a dedicated region at kdump 2018-12-06 14:38:50 +00:00
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c kexec: add call to LSM hook in original kexec_load syscall 2018-07-16 12:31:57 -07:00
kmod.c
kprobes.c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-12-26 14:45:18 -08:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
latencytop.c
Makefile kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
memremap.c mm/hmm: fix memremap.h, move dev_page_fault_t callback to hmm 2018-12-28 12:11:52 -08:00
module_signing.c modsign: use all trusted keys to verify module signature 2018-11-07 14:41:41 +01:00
module-internal.h modsign: log module name in the event of an error 2018-07-02 11:36:17 +02:00
module.c jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c padata: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous space 2018-11-16 14:11:04 +08:00
panic.c kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
params.c
pid_namespace.c signal: Use group_send_sig_info to kill all processes in a pid namespace 2018-09-16 16:08:25 +02:00
pid.c Fix failure path in alloc_pid() 2018-12-28 12:42:30 -08:00
profile.c mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ptrace.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
range.c
reboot.c kernel/reboot.c: export pm_power_off_prepare 2018-09-11 16:13:24 +01:00
relay.c relay: check return of create_buf_file() properly 2019-01-31 14:01:48 +01:00
resource.c kernel, resource: check for IORESOURCE_SYSRAM in release_mem_region_adjustable 2018-12-28 12:11:49 -08:00
rseq.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
seccomp.c seccomp: fix UAF in user-trap code 2019-01-15 09:43:12 -08:00
signal.c signal: Restore the stop PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT 2019-02-13 08:31:41 -06:00
smp.c cpu/hotplug: Fix "SMT disabled by BIOS" detection for KVM 2019-01-30 19:27:00 +01:00
smpboot.c smpboot: Remove cpumask from the API 2018-07-03 09:20:44 +02:00
smpboot.h
softirq.c Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-25 11:43:47 -07:00
stackleak.c stackleak: Mark stackleak_track_stack() as notrace 2018-12-05 19:31:44 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-13 11:25:07 -07:00
sys_ni.c y2038: socket: Add compat_sys_recvmmsg_time64 2018-12-18 16:13:04 +01:00
sys.c kernel/sys.c: Clarify that UNAME26 does not generate unique versions anymore 2019-01-14 10:38:03 +12:00
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
sysctl.c kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c kprobes: Remove jprobe API implementation 2018-06-21 12:33:05 +02:00
torture.c torture: Remove unnecessary "ret" variables 2018-12-01 12:45:35 -08:00
tracepoint.c tracing: Replace synchronize_sched() and call_rcu_sched() 2018-11-27 09:21:41 -08:00
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c umh: add exit routine for UMH process 2019-01-11 18:05:40 -08:00
up.c smp,cpumask: introduce on_each_cpu_cond_mask 2018-10-09 16:51:11 +02:00
user_namespace.c userns: also map extents in the reverse map to kernel IDs 2018-11-07 23:51:16 -06:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c userns: use irqsave variant of refcount_dec_and_lock() 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory 2018-08-11 02:05:53 -05:00
utsname.c
watchdog_hld.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
watchdog.c watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace 2018-08-30 12:56:40 +02:00
workqueue_internal.h psi: fix aggregation idle shut-off 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00
workqueue.c psi: fix aggregation idle shut-off 2019-02-01 15:46:23 -08:00