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. These are the changes in relevant stats with this
patch for a test run of this scenario:
Before After
compact_migrate_scanned 329,798,858 370,984,387
compact_free_scanned 40,478,406 25,843,262
compact_isolated 135,470,452 777,235
pgmigrate_success 544,255 507,325
pgmigrate_fail 134,616,282 47
kcompactd CPU time 5:12.81 0:12.28
Before the patch, large number of pages were isolated but most of
them failed to migrate.
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
- Use existing folio_expected_refs() function (Suggested
by Huang, Ying)
- Use folio functions
- Take into account contig allocations when checking for
long temr pinning and skip pages in ZONE_MOVABLE and
MIGRATE_CMA type pages (Suggested by David Hildenbrand)
- Use folio version of total_mapcount() instead of
page_mapcount() (Suggested by Baolin Wang)
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)
include/linux/migrate.h | 16 +++++++++++++++
mm/compaction.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
mm/migrate.c | 14 -------------
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/migrate.h b/include/linux/migrate.h
index 6241a1596a75..4f59e15eae99 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate.h
@@ -141,6 +141,22 @@ const struct movable_operations *page_movable_ops(struct page *page)
((unsigned long)page->mapping - PAGE_MAPPING_MOVABLE);
}
+static inline
+int folio_expected_refs(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct folio *folio)
+{
+ int refs = 1;
+
+ if (!mapping)
+ return refs;
+
+ refs += folio_nr_pages(folio);
+ if (folio_test_private(folio))
+ refs++;
+
+ return refs;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
int migrate_misplaced_page(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
int node);
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 5a9501e0ae01..b548e05f0349 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -764,6 +764,42 @@ 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 code is inspired by similar code in migrate_vma_check_page(),
+ * can_split_folio() and folio_migrate_mapping()
+ */
+static inline bool page_has_extra_refs(struct page *page,
+ struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ unsigned long extra_refs;
+ struct folio *folio;
+
+ /*
+ * Skip this check for pages in ZONE_MOVABLE or MIGRATE_CMA
+ * pages that can not be long term pinned
+ */
+ if (is_zone_movable_page(page) || is_migrate_cma_page(page))
+ return false;
+
+ folio = page_folio(page);
+
+ /*
+ * caller holds a ref already from get_page_unless_zero()
+ * which is accounted for in folio_expected_refs()
+ */
+ extra_refs = folio_expected_refs(mapping, folio);
+
+ /*
+ * This is an admittedly racy check but good enough to determine
+ * if a page is pinned and can not be migrated
+ */
+ if ((folio_ref_count(folio) - extra_refs) > folio_mapcount(folio))
+ return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
/**
* isolate_migratepages_block() - isolate all migrate-able pages within
* a single pageblock
@@ -992,12 +1028,12 @@ 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
+ * from long term pinning 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 (!cc->alloc_contig && page_has_extra_refs(page, mapping))
goto isolate_fail_put;
/*
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index db3f154446af..a2f3e5834996 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -385,20 +385,6 @@ void pmd_migration_entry_wait(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
}
#endif
-static int folio_expected_refs(struct address_space *mapping,
- struct folio *folio)
-{
- int refs = 1;
- if (!mapping)
- return refs;
-
- refs += folio_nr_pages(folio);
- if (folio_test_private(folio))
- refs++;
-
- return refs;
-}
-
/*
* Replace the page in the mapping.
*
--
2.37.2
