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| author | Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> | 2024-10-28 19:26:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-11-07 23:14:58 +0100 |
| commit | c928807f6f6b6d595a7e199591ae297c81de3aeb (patch) | |
| tree | e35dc9806bb92d6c553d44650eff5d8975f48067 /include | |
| parent | mm: resolve faulty mmap_region() error path behaviour (diff) | |
| download | linux-c928807f6f6b6d595a7e199591ae297c81de3aeb.tar.xz linux-c928807f6f6b6d595a7e199591ae297c81de3aeb.zip | |
mm/page_alloc: keep track of free highatomic
OOM kills due to vastly overestimated free highatomic reserves were
observed:
... invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0 ...
Node 0 Normal free:1482936kB boost:0kB min:410416kB low:739404kB high:1068392kB reserved_highatomic:1073152KB ...
Node 0 Normal: 1292*4kB (ME) 1920*8kB (E) 383*16kB (UE) 220*32kB (ME) 340*64kB (E) 2155*128kB (UE) 3243*256kB (UE) 615*512kB (U) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1477408kB
The second line above shows that the OOM kill was due to the following
condition:
free (1482936kB) - reserved_highatomic (1073152kB) = 409784KB < min (410416kB)
And the third line shows there were no free pages in any
MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC pageblocks, which otherwise would show up as type 'H'.
Therefore __zone_watermark_unusable_free() underestimated the usable free
memory by over 1GB, which resulted in the unnecessary OOM kill above.
The comments in __zone_watermark_unusable_free() warns about the potential
risk, i.e.,
If the caller does not have rights to reserves below the min
watermark then subtract the high-atomic reserves. This will
over-estimate the size of the atomic reserve but it avoids a search.
However, it is possible to keep track of free pages in reserved highatomic
pageblocks with a new per-zone counter nr_free_highatomic protected by the
zone lock, to avoid a search when calculating the usable free memory. And
the cost would be minimal, i.e., simple arithmetics in the highatomic
alloc/free/move paths.
Note that since nr_free_highatomic can be relatively small, using a
per-cpu counter might cause too much drift and defeat its purpose, in
addition to the extra memory overhead.
Dependson e0932b6c1f94 ("mm: page_alloc: consolidate free page accounting") - see [1]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/if/else if/, per Johannes, stealth whitespace tweak]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028182653.3420139-1-yuzhao@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0d0ddb33-fcdc-43e2-801f-0c1df2031afb@suse.cz [1]
Fixes: 0aaa29a56e4f ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reported-by: Link Lin <linkl@google.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 5b1c984daf45..80bc5640bb60 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ struct zone { unsigned long watermark_boost; unsigned long nr_reserved_highatomic; + unsigned long nr_free_highatomic; /* * We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be |