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SubjectRe: [resend][PATCH] mm, vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock
(2012/06/18 9:43), Minchan Kim wrote:
> On 06/17/2012 02:48 AM, Aaditya Kumar wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Minchan Kim<minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> pgdat_balanced() doesn't recognized zone. Therefore kswapd may sleep
>>>> if node has multiple zones. Hm ok, I realized my descriptions was
>>>> slightly misleading. priority 0 is not needed. bakance_pddat() calls
>>>> pgdat_balanced()
>>>> every priority. Most easy case is, movable zone has a lot of free pages and
>>>> normal zone has no reclaimable page.
>>>>
>>>> btw, current pgdat_balanced() logic seems not correct. kswapd should
>>>> sleep only if every zones have much free pages than high water mark
>>>> _and_ 25% of present pages in node are free.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry. I can't understand your point.
>>> Current kswapd doesn't sleep if relevant zones don't have free pages above high watermark.
>>> It seems I am missing your point.
>>> Please anybody correct me.
>>
>> Since currently direct reclaim is given up based on
>> zone->all_unreclaimable flag,
>> so for e.g in one of the scenarios:
>>
>> Lets say system has one node with two zones (NORMAL and MOVABLE) and we
>> hot-remove the all the pages of the MOVABLE zone.
>>
>> While migrating pages during memory hot-unplugging, the allocation function
>> (for new page to which the page in MOVABLE zone would be moved) can end up
>> looping in direct reclaim path for ever.
>>
>> This is so because when most of the pages in the MOVABLE zone have
>> been migrated,
>> the zone now contains lots of free memory (basically above low watermark)
>> BUT all are in MIGRATE_ISOLATE list of the buddy list.
>>
>> So kswapd() would not balance this zone as free pages are above low watermark
>> (but all are in isolate list). So zone->all_unreclaimable flag would
>> never be set for this zone
>> and allocation function would end up looping forever. (assuming the
>> zone NORMAL is
>> left with no reclaimable memory)
>>
>
>
> Thanks a lot, Aaditya! Scenario you mentioned makes perfect.
> But I don't see it's a problem of kswapd.
>
> a5d76b54 made new migration type 'MIGRATE_ISOLATE' which is very irony type because there are many free pages in free list
> but we can't allocate it. :(
> It doesn't reflect right NR_FREE_PAGES while many places in the kernel use NR_FREE_PAGES to trigger some operation.
> Kswapd is just one of them confused.
> As right fix of this problem, we should fix hot plug code, IMHO which can fix CMA, too.
>
> This patch could make inconsistency between NR_FREE_PAGES and SumOf[free_area[order].nr_free]
> and it could make __zone_watermark_ok confuse so we might need to fix move_freepages_block itself to reflect
> free_area[order].nr_free exactly.
>
> Any thought?
>
> Side Note: I still need KOSAKI's patch with fixed description regardless of this problem because set zone->all_unreclaimable of only kswapd is very fragile.
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 4403009..19de56c 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5593,8 +5593,10 @@ int set_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page)
>
> out:
> if (!ret) {
> + int pages_moved;
> set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
> - move_freepages_block(zone, page, MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
> + pages_moved = move_freepages_block(zone, page, MIGRATE_ISOLATE);
> + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -pages_moved);
> }
>
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> @@ -5607,12 +5609,14 @@ void unset_migratetype_isolate(struct page *page, unsigned migratetype)
> {
> struct zone *zone;
> unsigned long flags;
> + int pages_moved;
> zone = page_zone(page);
> spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> if (get_pageblock_migratetype(page) != MIGRATE_ISOLATE)
> goto out;
> set_pageblock_migratetype(page, migratetype);
> - move_freepages_block(zone, page, migratetype);
> + pages_moved = move_freepages_block(zone, page, migratetype);
> + __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, pages_moved);
> out:
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
> }
>


I think this patch is very good.

Thanks,
-Kame




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