The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc: keep track of free highatomic
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_alloc-keep-track-of-free-highatomic.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: keep track of free highatomic
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 12:26:53 -0600
OOM kills due to vastly overestimated free highatomic reserves were
observed:
... invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0 ...
Node 0 Normal free:1482936kB boost:0kB min:410416kB low:739404kB high:1068392kB reserved_highatomic:1073152KB ...
Node 0 Normal: 1292*4kB (ME) 1920*8kB (E) 383*16kB (UE) 220*32kB (ME) 340*64kB (E) 2155*128kB (UE) 3243*256kB (UE) 615*512kB (U) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1477408kB
The second line above shows that the OOM kill was due to the following
condition:
free (1482936kB) - reserved_highatomic (1073152kB) = 409784KB < min (410416kB)
And the third line shows there were no free pages in any
MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC pageblocks, which otherwise would show up as type 'H'.
Therefore __zone_watermark_unusable_free() underestimated the usable free
memory by over 1GB, which resulted in the unnecessary OOM kill above.
The comments in __zone_watermark_unusable_free() warns about the potential
risk, i.e.,
If the caller does not have rights to reserves below the min
watermark then subtract the high-atomic reserves. This will
over-estimate the size of the atomic reserve but it avoids a search.
However, it is possible to keep track of free pages in reserved highatomic
pageblocks with a new per-zone counter nr_free_highatomic protected by the
zone lock, to avoid a search when calculating the usable free memory. And
the cost would be minimal, i.e., simple arithmetics in the highatomic
alloc/free/move paths.
Note that since nr_free_highatomic can be relatively small, using a
per-cpu counter might cause too much drift and defeat its purpose, in
addition to the extra memory overhead.
Dependson e0932b6c1f94 ("mm: page_alloc: consolidate free page accounting") - see [1]
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: s/if/else if/, per Johannes, stealth whitespace tweak]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241028182653.3420139-1-yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0d0ddb33-fcdc-43e2-801f-0c1df2031afb@xxxxxxx [1]
Fixes: 0aaa29a56e4f ("mm, page_alloc: reserve pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand")
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Link Lin <linkl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 10 +++++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h~mm-page_alloc-keep-track-of-free-highatomic
+++ a/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ struct zone {
unsigned long watermark_boost;
unsigned long nr_reserved_highatomic;
+ unsigned long nr_free_highatomic;
/*
* We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-keep-track-of-free-highatomic
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -635,6 +635,8 @@ compaction_capture(struct capture_contro
static inline void account_freepages(struct zone *zone, int nr_pages,
int migratetype)
{
+ lockdep_assert_held(&zone->lock);
+
if (is_migrate_isolate(migratetype))
return;
@@ -642,6 +644,9 @@ static inline void account_freepages(str
if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES, nr_pages);
+ else if (is_migrate_highatomic(migratetype))
+ WRITE_ONCE(zone->nr_free_highatomic,
+ zone->nr_free_highatomic + nr_pages);
}
/* Used for pages not on another list */
@@ -3079,11 +3084,10 @@ static inline long __zone_watermark_unus
/*
* If the caller does not have rights to reserves below the min
- * watermark then subtract the high-atomic reserves. This will
- * over-estimate the size of the atomic reserve but it avoids a search.
+ * watermark then subtract the free pages reserved for highatomic.
*/
if (likely(!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_RESERVES)))
- unusable_free += z->nr_reserved_highatomic;
+ unusable_free += READ_ONCE(z->nr_free_highatomic);
#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
/* If allocation can't use CMA areas don't use free CMA pages */
_
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