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authorZhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com>2023-05-31 10:51:01 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-06-19 16:19:00 -0700
commit5da226dbfce3a2f44978c2c7cf88166e69a6788b (patch)
treeaadae05bd13f5868436e3e1dc4c0b5d3689f6ea4 /mm/vmscan.c
parentce5df7764b3b2abaf3687c460a9a1922daaed5b7 (diff)
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mm: skip CMA pages when they are not available
This patch fixes unproductive reclaiming of CMA pages by skipping them when they are not available for current context. It arises from the below OOM issue, which was caused by a large proportion of MIGRATE_CMA pages among free pages. [ 36.172486] [03-19 10:05:52.172] ActivityManager: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xc00(GFP_NOIO), nodemask=(null),cpuset=foreground,mems_allowed=0 [ 36.189447] [03-19 10:05:52.189] DMA32: 0*4kB 447*8kB (C) 217*16kB (C) 124*32kB (C) 136*64kB (C) 70*128kB (C) 22*256kB (C) 3*512kB (C) 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 35848kB [ 36.193125] [03-19 10:05:52.193] Normal: 231*4kB (UMEH) 49*8kB (MEH) 14*16kB (H) 13*32kB (H) 8*64kB (H) 2*128kB (H) 0*256kB 1*512kB (H) 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3236kB ... [ 36.234447] [03-19 10:05:52.234] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0xa20(GFP_ATOMIC) [ 36.234455] [03-19 10:05:52.234] cache: ext4_io_end, object size: 64, buffer size: 64, default order: 0, min order: 0 [ 36.234459] [03-19 10:05:52.234] node 0: slabs: 53,objs: 3392, free: 0 This change further decreases the chance for wrong OOMs in the presence of a lot of CMA memory. [david@redhat.com: changelog addition] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1685501461-19290-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@unisoc.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: ke.wang <ke.wang@unisoc.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c22
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 5993c0bae162..9048739c41db 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2271,6 +2271,25 @@ static __always_inline void update_lru_sizes(struct lruvec *lruvec,
}
+#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 &&
+ get_pageblock_migratetype(&folio->page) == 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.
*
@@ -2317,7 +2336,8 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_folios(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
total_scan += nr_pages;
- if (folio_zonenum(folio) > sc->reclaim_idx) {
+ if (folio_zonenum(folio) > sc->reclaim_idx ||
+ skip_cma(folio, sc)) {
nr_skipped[folio_zonenum(folio)] += nr_pages;
move_to = &folios_skipped;
goto move;