The patch titled Subject: Revert "mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available" has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is revert-mm-skip-cma-pages-when-they-are-not-available.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/revert-mm-skip-cma-pages-when-they-are-not-available.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Revert "mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available" Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:26:07 +0100 This reverts commit 5da226dbfce3a2f44978c2c7cf88166e69a6788b. lruvec->lru_lock is highly contended and is held when calling isolate_lru_folios. If the lru has a large number of CMA folios consecutively, while the allocation type requested is not MIGRATE_MOVABLE, isolate_lru_folios can hold the lock for a very long time while it skips those. For FIO workload, ~150million order=0 folios were skipped to isolate a few ZONE_DMA folios [1]. This can cause lockups [1] and high memory pressure for extended periods of time [2]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAOUHufbkhMZYz20aM_3rHZ3OcK4m2puji2FGpUpn_-DevGk3Kg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZrssOrcJIDy8hacI@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9060a32d-b2d7-48c0-8626-1db535653c54@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: 5da226dbfce3 ("mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available") Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@xxxxxxx> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~revert-mm-skip-cma-pages-when-they-are-not-available +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1604,25 +1604,6 @@ static __always_inline void update_lru_s } -#ifdef CONFIG_CMA -/* - * It is waste of effort to scan and reclaim CMA pages if it is not available - * for current allocation context. Kswapd can not be enrolled as it can not - * distinguish this scenario by using sc->gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL - */ -static bool skip_cma(struct folio *folio, struct scan_control *sc) -{ - return !current_is_kswapd() && - gfp_migratetype(sc->gfp_mask) != MIGRATE_MOVABLE && - folio_migratetype(folio) == MIGRATE_CMA; -} -#else -static bool skip_cma(struct folio *folio, struct scan_control *sc) -{ - return false; -} -#endif - /* * Isolating page from the lruvec to fill in @dst list by nr_to_scan times. * @@ -1669,8 +1650,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_folios( nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); total_scan += nr_pages; - if (folio_zonenum(folio) > sc->reclaim_idx || - skip_cma(folio, sc)) { + if (folio_zonenum(folio) > sc->reclaim_idx) { nr_skipped[folio_zonenum(folio)] += nr_pages; move_to = &folios_skipped; goto move; @@ -4273,6 +4253,25 @@ void lru_gen_soft_reclaim(struct mem_cgr #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */ +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA +/* + * It is waste of effort to scan and reclaim CMA pages if it is not available + * for current allocation context. Kswapd can not be enrolled as it can not + * distinguish this scenario by using sc->gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL + */ +static bool skip_cma(struct folio *folio, struct scan_control *sc) +{ + return !current_is_kswapd() && + gfp_migratetype(sc->gfp_mask) != MIGRATE_MOVABLE && + folio_migratetype(folio) == MIGRATE_CMA; +} +#else +static bool skip_cma(struct folio *folio, struct scan_control *sc) +{ + return false; +} +#endif + /****************************************************************************** * the eviction ******************************************************************************/ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from usamaarif642@xxxxxxxxx are revert-mm-skip-cma-pages-when-they-are-not-available.patch