From: Zeng Jingxiang <linuszeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Commit 14aa8b2d5c2e ("mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle") removed the opportunity to wake up flushers during the MGLRU page reclamation process can lead to an increased likelihood of triggering OOM when encountering many dirty pages during reclamation on MGLRU. This leads to premature OOM if there are too many dirty pages in cgroup: Killed dd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x101cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_WRITE), order=0, oom_score_adj=0 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5f/0x80 dump_stack+0x14/0x20 dump_header+0x46/0x1b0 oom_kill_process+0x104/0x220 out_of_memory+0x112/0x5a0 mem_cgroup_out_of_memory+0x13b/0x150 try_charge_memcg+0x44f/0x5c0 charge_memcg+0x34/0x50 __mem_cgroup_charge+0x31/0x90 filemap_add_folio+0x4b/0xf0 __filemap_get_folio+0x1a4/0x5b0 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? __block_commit_write+0x82/0xb0 ext4_da_write_begin+0xe5/0x270 generic_perform_write+0x134/0x2b0 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x57/0xd0 ext4_file_write_iter+0x76/0x7d0 ? selinux_file_permission+0x119/0x150 ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f vfs_write+0x30c/0x440 ksys_write+0x65/0xe0 __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x11c2/0x1d50 do_syscall_64+0x47/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e memory: usage 308224kB, limit 308224kB, failcnt 2589 swap: usage 0kB, limit 9007199254740988kB, failcnt 0 ... file_dirty 303247360 file_writeback 0 ... oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,nodemask=(null),cpuset=test, mems_allowed=0,oom_memcg=/test,task_memcg=/test,task=dd,pid=4404,uid=0 Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 4404 (dd) total-vm:10512kB, anon-rss:1152kB, file-rss:1824kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:0 The flusher wake up was removed to decrease SSD wearing, but if we are seeing all dirty folios at the tail of an LRU, not waking up the flusher could lead to thrashing easily. So wake it up when a mem cgroups is about to OOM due to dirty caches. MGLRU still suffers OOM issue on latest mm tree, so the test is done with another fix merged [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAOUHufYi9h0kz5uW3LHHS3ZrVwEq-kKp8S6N-MZUmErNAXoXmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1] Fixes: 14aa8b2d5c2e ("mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle") Signed-off-by: Zeng Jingxiang <linuszeng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index f27792e77a0f..9cd8c42f67cb 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4447,6 +4447,7 @@ static int scan_folios(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc, scanned, skipped, isolated, type ? LRU_INACTIVE_FILE : LRU_INACTIVE_ANON); + sc->nr.taken += isolated; /* * There might not be eligible folios due to reclaim_idx. Check the * remaining to prevent livelock if it's not making progress. @@ -4919,6 +4920,14 @@ static void lru_gen_shrink_lruvec(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc if (try_to_shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc)) lru_gen_rotate_memcg(lruvec, MEMCG_LRU_YOUNG); + /* + * If too many pages failed to evict due to page being dirty, + * memory pressure have pushed dirty pages to oldest gen, + * wake up flusher. + */ + if (sc->nr.unqueued_dirty >= sc->nr.taken) + wakeup_flusher_threads(WB_REASON_VMSCAN); + clear_mm_walk(); blk_finish_plug(&plug); -- 2.43.5