The patch titled Subject: mm/vmscan: make sure wakeup_kswapd with managed zone has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-make-sure-wakeup_kswapd-with-managed-zone.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-make-sure-wakeup_kswapd-with-managed-zone.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-make-sure-wakeup_kswapd-with-managed-zone.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmscan: make sure wakeup_kswapd with managed zone wakeup_kswapd() only wake up kswapd when the zone is managed. For two callers of wakeup_kswapd(), they are node perspective. * wake_all_kswapds * numamigrate_isolate_page If we picked up a !managed zone, this is not we expected. This patch makes sure we pick up a managed zone for wakeup_kswapd(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220327024101.10378-2-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 2 +- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-vmscan-make-sure-wakeup_kswapd-with-managed-zone +++ a/mm/migrate.c @@ -2046,7 +2046,7 @@ static int numamigrate_isolate_page(pg_d if (!(sysctl_numa_balancing_mode & NUMA_BALANCING_MEMORY_TIERING)) return 0; for (z = pgdat->nr_zones - 1; z >= 0; z--) { - if (populated_zone(pgdat->node_zones + z)) + if (managed_zone(pgdat->node_zones + z)) break; } wakeup_kswapd(pgdat->node_zones + z, 0, order, ZONE_MOVABLE); --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-vmscan-make-sure-wakeup_kswapd-with-managed-zone +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4674,6 +4674,8 @@ static void wake_all_kswapds(unsigned in for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, ac->zonelist, highest_zoneidx, ac->nodemask) { + if (!managed_zone(zone)) + continue; if (last_pgdat != zone->zone_pgdat) { wakeup_kswapd(zone, gfp_mask, order, highest_zoneidx); last_pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are mm-page_alloc-add-same-penalty-is-enough-to-get-round-robin-order.patch mm-page_alloc-add-penalty-to-local_node.patch mm-vmscan-reclaim-only-affects-managed_zones.patch mm-vmscan-make-sure-wakeup_kswapd-with-managed-zone.patch