Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Pages pinned in memory through extra refcounts can not be migrated.
> Currently as isolate_migratepages_block() scans pages for
> compaction, it skips any pinned anonymous pages. All non-migratable
> pages should be skipped and not just the anonymous pinned pages.
> This patch adds a check for extra refcounts on a page to determine
> if the page can be migrated. This was seen as a real issue on a
> customer workload where a large number of pages were pinned by vfio
> on the host and any attempts to allocate hugepages resulted in
> significant amount of cpu time spent in either direct compaction or
> in kcompactd scanning vfio pinned pages over and over again that can
> not be migrated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v3:
> - Account for extra ref added by get_page_unless_zero() earlier
> in isolate_migratepages_block() (Suggested by Huang, Ying)
> - Clean up computation of extra refs to be consistent
> (Suggested by Huang, Ying)
>
> v2:
> - Update comments in the code (Suggested by Andrew)
> - Use PagePrivate() instead of page_has_private() (Suggested
> by Matthew)
> - Pass mapping to page_has_extrarefs() (Suggested by Matthew)
> - Use page_ref_count() (Suggested by Matthew)
> - Rename is_pinned_page() to reflect its function more
> accurately (Suggested by Matthew)
>
> mm/compaction.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index 5a9501e0ae01..f04c00981172 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -764,6 +764,34 @@ static bool too_many_isolated(pg_data_t *pgdat)
> return too_many;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Check if this base page should be skipped from isolation because
> + * it has extra refcounts that will prevent it from being migrated.
This appears duplicated with the comments in caller. It's OK to keep
one only?
> + * This function is called for regular pages only, and not
> + * for THP or hugetlbfs pages. This code is inspired by similar code
> + * in migrate_vma_check_page(), can_split_folio() and
> + * folio_migrate_mapping()
It's not good to duplicate code. Why not just use
folio_expected_refs()?
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
> + */
> +static inline bool page_has_extra_refs(struct page *page)
> +{
> + /* caller holds a ref already from get_page_unless_zero() */
> + unsigned long extra_refs = 1;
> +
> + /* anonymous page can have extra ref from swap cache */
> + if (PageAnon(page))
> + extra_refs += PageSwapCache(page) ? 1 : 0;
> + else
> + extra_refs += 1 + PagePrivate(page);
> +
> + /*
> + * This is an admittedly racy check but good enough to determine
> + * if a page is pinned and can not be migrated
> + */
> + if ((page_ref_count(page) - extra_refs) > page_mapcount(page))
> + return true;
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * isolate_migratepages_block() - isolate all migrate-able pages within
> * a single pageblock
> @@ -992,12 +1020,12 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
> goto isolate_fail;
>
> /*
> - * Migration will fail if an anonymous page is pinned in memory,
> - * so avoid taking lru_lock and isolating it unnecessarily in an
> - * admittedly racy check.
> + * Migration will fail if a page has extra refcounts
> + * preventing it from migrating, so avoid taking
> + * lru_lock and isolating it unnecessarily
> */
> mapping = page_mapping(page);
> - if (!mapping && (page_count(page) - 1) > total_mapcount(page))
> + if (page_has_extra_refs(page))
> goto isolate_fail_put;
>
> /*
