epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively
authorBenjamin Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:24:23 +0000 (14:24 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:22:59 +0000 (14:22 +0200)
commit9ccb5d391c51fa99772c8defb53f0794200e2767
treed2777720b93faf6f6dd0d45622220b6b6eef0eae
parent8a2df34b5bf652566f2889d9fa321f3b398547ef
epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively

commit a16ceb13961068f7209e34d7984f8e42d2c06159 upstream.

If a process is killed or otherwise exits while having active network
connections and many threads waiting on epoll_wait, the threads will all
be woken immediately, but not removed from ep->wq.  Then when network
traffic scans ep->wq in wake_up, every wakeup attempt will fail, and will
not remove the entries from the list.

This means that the cost of the wakeup attempt is far higher than usual,
does not decrease, and this also competes with the dying threads trying to
actually make progress and remove themselves from the wq.

Handle this by removing visited epoll wq entries unconditionally, rather
than only when the wakeup succeeds - the structure of ep_poll means that
the only potential loss is the timed_out->eavail heuristic, which now can
race and result in a redundant ep_send_events attempt.  (But only when
incoming data and a timeout actually race, not on every timeout)

Shakeel added:

: We are seeing this issue in production with real workloads and it has
: caused hard lockups.  Particularly network heavy workloads with a lot
: of threads in epoll_wait() can easily trigger this issue if they get
: killed (oom-killed in our case).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/xm26fsjotqda.fsf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Cc: Heiher <r@hev.cc>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/eventpoll.c