On 05/28/2014 04:24 AM, Wang, Yalin wrote:
Hi
I find the show_mem function show page MIGRATE types result is not correct for
MIGRATE_RESERVE pages :
Normal: 1582*4kB (UEMC) 1317*8kB (UEMC) 1020*16kB (UEMC) 450*32kB (UEMC) 206*64kB (UEMC) 40*128kB (UM) 10*256kB (UM) 10*512kB (UM) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 74592kB
Some pages should be marked (R) , while it is changed into MIGRATE_MOVEABLE or UNMOVEABLE in free_area list ,
It's not correct for debug .
I make a patch for this:
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5dba293..6ef8ebe 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,8 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
list_add_tail(&page->lru, list);
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA)) {
mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
- if (!is_migrate_cma(mt) && !is_migrate_isolate(mt))
+ if (!is_migrate_cma(mt) && !is_migrate_isolate(mt)
+ && mt != MIGRATE_RESERVE)
mt = migratetype;
}
set_freepage_migratetype(page, mt);
seems work ok , I am curious is it a BUG ? or designed like this for some reason ?
Hi, this is a known problem that should be fixed for the rmqueue_bulk()
part by this patch:
http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-prevent-migrate_reserve-pages-from-being-misplaced.patch
Testing is welcome if you can reproduce it easily enough.
Note that even with the patch, MIGRATE_RESERVE pageblocks can still
disappear for two reasons:
- when MAX_ORDER-1 > pageblock_order (such as x86_64), there can be a
single MIGRATE_RESERVE pageblock created for a smaller zone, and get
merged with !MIGRATE_RESERVE buddy pageblock
- when min_free_kbytes sysctl is used, creation of new MIGRATE_RESERVE
pageblocks can race with other CPUs putting pages in their pcplists, and
then freeing then on a wronge free_list. If try_to_steal_freepages
happens to find such misplaced page, it might remark the pageblock.
I think the second problem is extremely rare, but Joonsoo Kim confirmed
the first one to happen. You can check the -mm archives for threads
around the patch above.
Vlastimil
Thanks
<6>[ 250.751554] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
<6>[ 250.751606] Normal: 1582*4kB (UEMC) 1317*8kB (UEMC) 1020*16kB (UEMC) 450*32kB (UEMC) 206*64kB (UEMC) 40*128kB (UM) 10*256kB (UM) 10*512kB (UM) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 74592kB
<6>[ 250.751848] HighMem: 167*4kB (UC) 3*8kB (U) 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 692kB
<6>[ 250.752020] 62596 total pagecache pages
<6>[ 250.752046] 0 pages in swap cache
<6>[ 250.752074] Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0
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