On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:21:14 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 11:14 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2021 at 6:24 AM Thorsten Leemhuis
> > <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > If we get it into rc8 (which is still possible, even if a bit hard due
> > > to the new year festivities), it will get at least one week of testing.
> >
> > I took it with Hugh's ack from his reply to this, so it should be in rc8.
>
> Pushed out as 1b4e3f26f9f7 ("mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a
> failure to make progress")
Needs this fixup, which I shall tweak a bit then send formally
in a few minutes.
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: vmscan: reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress -fix
Hugh Dickins reported the following
My tmpfs swapping load (tweaked to use huge pages more heavily
than in real life) is far from being a realistic load: but it was
notably slowed down by your throttling mods in 5.16-rc, and this
patch makes it well again - thanks.
But: it very quickly hit NULL pointer until I changed that last
line to
if (first_pgdat)
consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc);
The likely issue is that huge pages are a major component of the test
workload. When this is the case, first_pgdat may never get set if
compaction is ready to continue due to this check
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
sc->compaction_ready = true;
continue;
}
If this was true for every zone in the zonelist, first_pgdat would never
get set resulting in a NULL pointer exception.
This is a fix to the mmotm patch
mm-vmscan-reduce-throttling-due-to-a-failure-to-make-progress.patch
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211209095453.GM3366@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-reduce-throttling-due-to-a-failure-to-make-progress-fix
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3530,7 +3530,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist
shrink_node(zone->zone_pgdat, sc);
}
- consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc);
+ if (first_pgdat)
+ consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc);
/*
* Restore to original mask to avoid the impact on the caller if we
_
