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| author | Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> | 2022-07-25 11:52:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-07-29 20:33:37 +0200 |
| commit | 9282012fc0aa248b77a69f5eb802b67c5a16bb13 (patch) | |
| tree | 999ab1fd2d2f53e0fa19b3cc0c17f373106a2c58 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | mailmap: update Gao Xiang's email addresses (diff) | |
| download | linux-9282012fc0aa248b77a69f5eb802b67c5a16bb13.tar.xz linux-9282012fc0aa248b77a69f5eb802b67c5a16bb13.zip | |
page_alloc: fix invalid watermark check on a negative value
There was a report that a task is waiting at the
throttle_direct_reclaim. The pgscan_direct_throttle in vmstat was
increasing.
This is a bug where zone_watermark_fast returns true even when the free
is very low. The commit f27ce0e14088 ("page_alloc: consider highatomic
reserve in watermark fast") changed the watermark fast to consider
highatomic reserve. But it did not handle a negative value case which
can be happened when reserved_highatomic pageblock is bigger than the
actual free.
If watermark is considered as ok for the negative value, allocating
contexts for order-0 will consume all free pages without direct reclaim,
and finally free page may become depleted except highatomic free.
Then allocating contexts may fall into throttle_direct_reclaim. This
symptom may easily happen in a system where wmark min is low and other
reclaimers like kswapd does not make free pages quickly.
Handle the negative case by using MIN.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220725095212.25388-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com
Fixes: f27ce0e14088 ("page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast")
Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Reported-by: GyeongHwan Hong <gh21.hong@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kerenl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e008a3df0485..b5b14b78c4fd 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3968,11 +3968,15 @@ static inline bool zone_watermark_fast(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, * need to be calculated. */ if (!order) { - long fast_free; + long usable_free; + long reserved; - fast_free = free_pages; - fast_free -= __zone_watermark_unusable_free(z, 0, alloc_flags); - if (fast_free > mark + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx]) + usable_free = free_pages; + reserved = __zone_watermark_unusable_free(z, 0, alloc_flags); + + /* reserved may over estimate high-atomic reserves. */ + usable_free -= min(usable_free, reserved); + if (usable_free > mark + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx]) return true; } |