From: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: "minchan@kernel.org" <minchan@kernel.org>,
"bhe@redhat.com" <bhe@redhat.com>,
"vbabka@suse.cz" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
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GyeongHwan Hong <gh21.hong@samsung.com>,
YongTaek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] page_alloc: fix invalid watemark check on a negative value
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:46:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220727074619epcms1p7285bceab31c4e04406094eee84862803@epcms1p7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220725113707.e03007d0761423f642c15749@linux-foundation.org>
>
>
>--------- Original Message ---------
>Sender : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>Date : 2022-07-26 03:37 (GMT+9)
>Title : Re: [PATCH v2] page_alloc: fix invalid watemark check on a negative value
>
>On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:52:12 +0900 Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> There was a report that a task is waiting at the
>> throttle_direct_reclaim. The pgscan_direct_throttle in vmstat was
>> increasing.
>>
>> This is a bug where zone_watermark_fast returns true even when the free
>> is very low. The commit f27ce0e14088 ("page_alloc: consider highatomic
>> reserve in watermark fast") changed the watermark fast to consider
>> highatomic reserve. But it did not handle a negative value case which
>> can be happened when reserved_highatomic pageblock is bigger than the
>> actual free.
>>
>> If watermark is considered as ok for the negative value, allocating
>> contexts for order-0 will consume all free pages without direct reclaim,
>> and finally free page may become depleted except highatomic free.
>>
>> Then allocating contexts may fall into throttle_direct_reclaim. This
>> symptom may easily happen in a system where wmark min is low and other
>> reclaimers like kswapd does not make free pages quickly.
>>
>> Handle the negative case by using MIN.
>>
>
>Thanks, I added cc:stable to this.
>
Sorry for your inconvenience.
Could you fix a typo by adding r to watermark on title
- page_alloc: fix invalid watemark check on a negative value
+ page_alloc: fix invalid watermark check on a negative value
I've appreciated it in advance.
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2022-07-25 9:52 ` Jaewon Kim
2022-07-25 18:37 ` Andrew Morton
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2022-07-27 7:46 ` Jaewon Kim [this message]
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