Re: [PATCH v4 3/9] mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock

[Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> But that leaves me with one more worry: compaction. We locked out
> charge moving now, so between that and knowing that the page is alive,
> we have page->mem_cgroup stable. But compaction doesn't know whether
> the page is alive - it comes from a pfn and finds out using PageLRU.
> 
> In the current code, pgdat->lru_lock remains the same before and after
> the page is charged to a cgroup, so once compaction has that locked
> and it observes PageLRU, it can go ahead and isolate the page.
> 
> But lruvec->lru_lock changes during charging, and then compaction may
> hold the wrong lock during isolation:
> 
> compaction:				generic_file_buffered_read:
> 
> 					page_cache_alloc()
> 
> !PageBuddy()
> 
> lock_page_lruvec(page)
>   lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec()
>   spin_lock(&lruvec->lru_lock)
>   if lruvec != mem_cgroup_page_lruvec()
>     goto again
> 
> 					add_to_page_cache_lru()
> 					  mem_cgroup_commit_charge()
> 					    page->mem_cgroup = foo
> 					  lru_cache_add()
> 					    __pagevec_lru_add()
> 					      SetPageLRU()
> 
> if PageLRU(page):
>   __isolate_lru_page()
> 
> I don't see what prevents the lruvec from changing under compaction,
> neither in your patches nor in Hugh's. Maybe I'm missing something?
> 

Hi Johannes,

It looks my patch do the lruvec recheck/relock after PageLRU in compaction.c.
It should be fine for your question. So I will try more testing after all changes.

Thanks
Alex


@@ -949,10 +959,26 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 		if (!(cc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) && page_mapping(page))
 			goto isolate_fail;
 
+		rcu_read_lock();
+reget_lruvec:
+		lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
+
 		/* If we already hold the lock, we can skip some rechecking */
-		if (!locked) {
-			locked = compact_lock_irqsave(&pgdat->lru_lock,
-								&flags, cc);
+		if (lruvec != locked_lruvec) {
+			if (locked_lruvec) {
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&locked_lruvec->lru_lock,
+							flags);
+				locked_lruvec = NULL;
+			}
+			if (compact_lock_irqsave(&lruvec->lru_lock,
+							&flags, cc))
+				locked_lruvec = lruvec;
+
+
+			if (lruvec != mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat))
+				goto reget_lruvec;
+
+			rcu_read_unlock();
 
 			/* Try get exclusive access under lock */
 			if (!skip_updated) {
@@ -974,9 +1000,9 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 				low_pfn += compound_nr(page) - 1;
 				goto isolate_fail;
 			}
-		}
+		} else
+			rcu_read_unlock();
 
-		lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
 
 		/* Try isolate the page */
 		if (__isolate_lru_page(page, isolate_mode) != 0)
@@ -1017,9 +1043,10 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
 		 * page anyway.
 		 */
 		if (nr_isolated) {
-			if (locked) {
-				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
-				locked = false;
+			if (locked_lruvec) {
+				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&locked_lruvec->lru_lock,
+							flags);
+				locked_lruvec = NULL;
 			}
 			putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);