If we wake up prematurely, it means we should keep going on
reclaiming not new order page but at old order page.
Sometime new order can be smaller than old order by below
race so it could make failure of old order page reclaiming.
T0: Task 1 wakes up kswapd with order-3
T1: So, kswapd starts to reclaim pages using balance_pgdat
T2: Task 2 wakes up kswapd with order-2 because pages reclaimed
by T1 are consumed quickly.
T3: kswapd exits balance_pgdat and will do following:
T4-1: In beginning of kswapd's loop, pgdat->kswapd_max_order will
be reset with zero.
T4-2: 'order' will be set to pgdat->kswapd_max_order(0), since it
enters the false branch of 'if (order (3) < new_order (2))'
T4-3: If previous balance_pgdat can't meet requirement of order-2
free pages by high watermark, it will start reclaiming again.
So balance_pgdat will use order-0 to do reclaim while it
really should use order-2 at the moment.
T4-4: At last, Task 1 can't get the any page if it wanted with
GFP_ATOMIC.
Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 42a4859..27d0839 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2447,13 +2447,18 @@ out:
return sc.nr_reclaimed;
}
-static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
+/*
+ * Return true if we slept enough. Otherwise, return false
+ */
+static bool kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
{
long remaining = 0;
+ bool slept = false;
+
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
if (freezing(current) || kthread_should_stop())
- return;
+ return slept;
prepare_to_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
@@ -2482,6 +2487,7 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold);
schedule();
set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold);
+ slept = true;
} else {
if (remaining)
count_vm_event(KSWAPD_LOW_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
@@ -2489,6 +2495,8 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order)
count_vm_event(KSWAPD_HIGH_WMARK_HIT_QUICKLY);
}
finish_wait(&pgdat->kswapd_wait, &wait);
+
+ return slept;
}
/*
@@ -2550,8 +2558,15 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
*/
order = new_order;
} else {
- kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat, order);
- order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
+ /*
+ * If we wake up after enough sleeping, it means
+ * we reclaimed enough pages at that order. so
+ * we starts reclaim new order in this time.
+ * Otherwise, it was a premature sleep so we should
+ * keep going on reclaiming at that order pages.
+ */
+ if (kswapd_try_to_sleep(pgdat, order))
+ order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
}
ret = try_to_freeze();
--
1.7.0.4
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