Bug #5938
opentmpfs locks processes in paging loop when there's no swap partition
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Description
I'm attaching three files: mapfile_reorder, mapfile-vers-jvm_dtrace, and vm.def. I took this from the openjdk7 build.
While bulding the OmniOS world on a machine without a swap partition, I noticed the openjdk7 build would stop, and have one process spin a CPU core indefinitely. I've reduced the reproduction to:
1.) Making sure all three files are in /tmp.
2.) PWD=/tmp
3.) Running this:
cat mapfile_reorder mapfile-vers-jvm_dtrace | nawk 'system ("cat vm.def")' > ./outfile
I think the size of the files (and the very large >500M outfile) influence whether or not this bug is tickled. This pipeline and (ab)use of nawk set up a situation where the "sh -c cat vm.def", which uses ksh93, mmaps "vm.def" with certain madvise flags, and then write()s the mmapped buffer out to another file on tmpfs. This causes page faults, which in turn trap, which in turn call tmp_putpage() and tmp_putapage(). tmp_putapage() fails, but tmp_putpage() understands a certain type of failure to NOT be one.
If you run that pipeline, you'll see constant calls to tmp_putapage(). The stack looks something like this:
unix`page_sub_common+0x25 unix`page_sub+0x52 genunix`pvn_write_done+0x135 tmpfs`tmp_putapage+0x4da tmpfs`tmp_putpage+0x302 genunix`fop_putpage+0x4c genunix`segvn_fault+0x75d genunix`as_fault+0x342 unix`pagefault+0x96 unix`trap+0x1331 unix`0xfffffffffb8002ba unix`0xfffffffffb85fbca genunix`uiomove+0x12e genunix`vpm_data_copy+0x13a tmpfs`wrtmp+0x2c5 tmpfs`tmp_write+0xc6 genunix`fop_write+0x5b genunix`write+0x248 genunix`write32+0x1e unix`_sys_sysenter_post_swapgs+0x237
The workaround is simple: Add a swap partition. The above pipeline STOPS SPINNING the instant one adds a swap partition into the system. Because of this readily available workaround (and that almost all systems install with one), this bug is not a crashing priority.
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