If the released page is captured by compaction, now the free page accounting
is not correspondingly decreased, which can make the watermark checks false
positive and result in depleted reserves etc. And I can see the false positive
watermark checks in thpcompact benchmark, that led to a slight regression:
thpcompact Percentage Faults Huge
k6.9-rc2-base base + patch10 + 2 fixes
Percentage huge-1 78.18 ( 0.00%) 71.92 ( -8.01%)
Percentage huge-3 86.70 ( 0.00%) 86.07 ( -0.73%)
Percentage huge-5 90.26 ( 0.00%) 78.02 ( -13.57%)
Percentage huge-7 92.34 ( 0.00%) 78.67 ( -14.81%)
Percentage huge-12 91.18 ( 0.00%) 81.04 ( -11.12%)
Percentage huge-18 89.00 ( 0.00%) 79.57 ( -10.60%)
Percentage huge-24 90.52 ( 0.00%) 80.07 ( -11.54%)
Percentage huge-30 94.44 ( 0.00%) 96.28 ( 1.95%)
Percentage huge-32 93.09 ( 0.00%) 99.39 ( 6.77%)
After the fix, the regression is gone.
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8330c5c2de6b..2facf844ef84 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -805,8 +805,10 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
while (order < MAX_PAGE_ORDER) {
int buddy_mt = migratetype;
- if (compaction_capture(capc, page, order, migratetype))
+ if (compaction_capture(capc, page, order, migratetype)) {
+ account_freepages(zone, -(1 << order), migratetype);
return;
+ }
buddy = find_buddy_page_pfn(page, pfn, order, &buddy_pfn);
if (!buddy)
--
2.39.3
