Testing shows fast_isolate_freepages can blindly choose an unsuitable
pageblock from time to time particularly while the min mark is used
from XXX path:
if (!page) {
cc->fast_search_fail++;
if (scan_start) {
/*
* Use the highest PFN found above min. If one was
* not found, be pessimistic for direct compaction
* and use the min mark.
*/
if (highest >= min_pfn) {
page = pfn_to_page(highest);
cc->free_pfn = highest;
} else {
if (cc->direct_compaction && pfn_valid(min_pfn)) { /* XXX */
page = pageblock_pfn_to_page(min_pfn,
min(pageblock_end_pfn(min_pfn),
zone_end_pfn(cc->zone)),
cc->zone);
cc->free_pfn = min_pfn;
}
}
}
}
The reason is that no code is doing any check on the min_pfn
min_pfn = pageblock_start_pfn(cc->free_pfn - (distance >> 1));
In contrast, slow path of isolate_freepages() is always skipping unsuitable
pageblocks in a decent way.
This issue doesn't happen quite often. When running 25 machines with 16GiB
memory for one night, most of them can hit this unexpected code path.
However the frequency isn't like many times per second. It might be one
time in a couple of hours. Thus, it is very hard to measure the visible
performance impact in my machines though the affection of choosing the
unsuitable migration_target should be negative in theory.
I feel it's still worth fixing this to at least make the code theoretically
self-explanatory as it is quite odd an unsuitable migration_target can be
still migration_target.
Reported-by: Zhanyuan Hu <huzhanyuan@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
---
v1:
move the fix to the specific min_pfn path with respect to Baolin's comment
rfc:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231129104530.63787-1-v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx/#t
mm/compaction.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 01ba298739dd..de15a2ef0af5 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1611,6 +1611,9 @@ static void fast_isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
min(pageblock_end_pfn(min_pfn),
zone_end_pfn(cc->zone)),
cc->zone);
+ if (page && !suitable_migration_target(cc, page))
+ page = NULL;
+
cc->free_pfn = min_pfn;
}
}
--
2.34.1
