From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch fixes unproductive reclaiming of CMA pages by skipping them when they
are not available for current context. It is arise from bellowing OOM issue, which
caused by large proportion of MIGRATE_CMA pages among free pages. There has been
commit(168676649) to fix it by trying CMA pages first instead of fallback in
rmqueue. I would like to propose another one from reclaiming perspective.
04166 < 4> [ 36.172486] [03-19 10:05:52.172] ActivityManager: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xc00(GFP_NOIO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=foreground,mems_allowed=0
0419C < 4> [ 36.189447] [03-19 10:05:52.189] DMA32: 0*4kB 447*8kB (C) 217*16kB (C) 124*32kB (C) 136*64kB (C) 70*128kB (C) 22*256kB (C) 3*512kB (C) 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 35848kB
0419D < 4> [ 36.193125] [03-19 10:05:52.193] Normal: 231*4kB (UMEH) 49*8kB (MEH) 14*16kB (H) 13*32kB (H) 8*64kB (H) 2*128kB (H) 0*256kB 1*512kB (H) 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3236kB
......
041EA < 4> [ 36.234447] [03-19 10:05:52.234] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0xa20(GFP_ATOMIC)
041EB < 4> [ 36.234455] [03-19 10:05:52.234] cache: ext4_io_end, object size: 64, buffer size: 64, default order: 0, min order: 0
041EC < 4> [ 36.234459] [03-19 10:05:52.234] node 0: slabs: 53,objs: 3392, free: 0
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: update commit message and fix build error when CONFIG_CMA is not set
---
---
mm/vmscan.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index bd6637f..19fb445 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2225,10 +2225,16 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_folios(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
unsigned long nr_skipped[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0, };
unsigned long skipped = 0;
unsigned long scan, total_scan, nr_pages;
+ bool cma_cap = true;
+ struct page *page;
LIST_HEAD(folios_skipped);
total_scan = 0;
scan = 0;
+ if ((IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA)) && !current_is_kswapd()
+ && (gfp_migratetype(sc->gfp_mask) != MIGRATE_MOVABLE))
+ cma_cap = false;
+
while (scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src)) {
struct list_head *move_to = src;
struct folio *folio;
@@ -2239,12 +2245,17 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_folios(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
total_scan += nr_pages;
- if (folio_zonenum(folio) > sc->reclaim_idx) {
+ page = &folio->page;
+
+ if ((folio_zonenum(folio) > sc->reclaim_idx)
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+ || (get_pageblock_migratetype(page) == MIGRATE_CMA && !cma_cap)
+#endif
+ ) {
nr_skipped[folio_zonenum(folio)] += nr_pages;
move_to = &folios_skipped;
goto move;
}
-
/*
* Do not count skipped folios because that makes the function
* return with no isolated folios if the LRU mostly contains
--
1.9.1
