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[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

[Impact]

 * Systems running under memory pressure may hit stalls in the
   order of seconds to minutes in systemd-logind and lxd mount
   operations (e.g., ZFS backend), which get stuck in D state.

 * The processes stuck in D state have a common stack trace,
   (cat /proc/PID/stack) all blocked in register_shrinker().

 * The fix checks in shrink_slab() (shrinkers are called under
   memory pressure) for contention/usage of the semaphore used
   by register_shrinker() and returns early in that case.

   This allows the register_shrinker() callers to unblock,
   and not stall until the shrink operation releases that lock.

[Test Case]

 * In a system under memory pressure, specifically having the
   memory shrinkers being called often and taking time to run,
   perform mount operations (or other operations that acquire
   the shrinker_rwsem semaphore).

 * The user who reported the problem has verified the fix in
   systems that exhibted the problem often (sometimes daily),
   and tells it resolves the problem.

[Regression Potential]

 * Low. The fix just returns early from slab memory shrinker
   if there's usage/contention for 'shrinker_rwsem'.

 * In some scenarios, this may cause the slab memory shrinker
   to require more invocations to actually finish and potentially
   release memory, but this seems minor since other shrinkers can
   release memory as well, and compared to the fact that this fix
   allows other applications to make progress / continue to run,
   which would otherwise be stalled.

[Other Info]
 
 * This patch is already applied in Cosmic and later (v4.16+).
   It is needed only in Xenial and Bionic at this time.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Regular D-state processes impacting LXD containers

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Systems running under memory pressure may hit stalls in the
     order of seconds to minutes in systemd-logind and lxd mount
     operations (e.g., ZFS backend), which get stuck in D state.

   * The processes stuck in D state have a common stack trace,
     (cat /proc/PID/stack) all blocked in register_shrinker().

   * The fix checks in shrink_slab() (shrinkers are called under
     memory pressure) for contention/usage of the semaphore used
     by register_shrinker() and returns early in that case.

     This allows the register_shrinker() callers to unblock,
     and not stall until the shrink operation releases that lock.

  [Test Case]

   * In a system under memory pressure, specifically having the
     memory shrinkers being called often and taking time to run,
     perform mount operations (or other operations that acquire
     the shrinker_rwsem semaphore).

   * The user who reported the problem has verified the fix in
     systems that exhibted the problem often (sometimes daily),
     and tells it resolves the problem.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Low. The fix just returns early from slab memory shrinker
     if there's usage/contention for 'shrinker_rwsem'.

   * In some scenarios, this may cause the slab memory shrinker
     to require more invocations to actually finish and potentially
     release memory, but this seems minor since other shrinkers can
     release memory as well, and compared to the fact that this fix
     allows other applications to make progress / continue to run,
     which would otherwise be stalled.

  [Other Info]
   
   * This patch is already applied in Cosmic and later (v4.16+).
     It is needed only in Xenial and Bionic at this time.

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