From nobody Wed Feb 11 10:51:15 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5657C7618A for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231134AbjCTSUw (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:20:52 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57552 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231300AbjCTST4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:19:56 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DD6742BF0 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 11:12:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1679335931; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: references:references; bh=nxDgSxDt58miOCbO29kj6Q7ncA44wbvUWM1rbcl0z7M=; b=BAzw++fdFu70dfME3EHBQJVSXSIvPN5R16L6gNfcVE7ECR1SipbC8fjIdPUrishAloRR5I g9G5CS8LB65WW+Gfxda2Vyxdc3zK072Q+66yWO6xF9mrAqOvH2iGLvJVqxccm/mOs8Tmh/ rQYMlddGgNfkzOZN9X59AgYHY+tJdR8= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-138--rX6rrAwMOqsYpUa1YzcdA-1; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:12:05 -0400 X-MC-Unique: -rX6rrAwMOqsYpUa1YzcdA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B9671C08786; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tpad.localdomain (ovpn-112-2.gru2.redhat.com [10.97.112.2]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFD072027062; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:12:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by tpad.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D1AD6403BC89A; Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:08:02 -0300 (-03) Message-ID: <20230320180745.556821285@redhat.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:03:33 -0300 From: Marcelo Tosatti To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Aaron Tomlin , Frederic Weisbecker , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Russell King , Huacai Chen , Heiko Carstens , x86@kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka , Michal Hocko , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: [PATCH v7 01/13] vmstat: allow_direct_reclaim should use zone_page_state_snapshot References: <20230320180332.102837832@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.4 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" A customer provided evidence indicating that a process was stalled in direct reclaim: - The process was trapped in throttle_direct_reclaim(). The function wait_event_killable() was called to wait condition =20 allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) for current node to be true. =20 The allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) examined the number of free pages =20 on the node by zone_page_state() which just returns value in =20 zone->vm_stat[NR_FREE_PAGES]. =20 =20 - On node #1, zone->vm_stat[NR_FREE_PAGES] was 0. =20 However, the freelist on this node was not empty. =20 =20 - This inconsistent of vmstat value was caused by percpu vmstat on =20 nohz_full cpus. Every increment/decrement of vmstat is performed =20 on percpu vmstat counter at first, then pooled diffs are cumulated =20 to the zone's vmstat counter in timely manner. However, on nohz_full =20 cpus (in case of this customer's system, 48 of 52 cpus) these pooled =20 diffs were not cumulated once the cpu had no event on it so that =20 the cpu started sleeping infinitely. =20 I checked percpu vmstat and found there were total 69 counts not =20 cumulated to the zone's vmstat counter yet. =20 =20 - In this situation, kswapd did not help the trapped process. =20 In pgdat_balanced(), zone_wakermark_ok_safe() examined the number =20 of free pages on the node by zone_page_state_snapshot() which =20 checks pending counts on percpu vmstat. =20 Therefore kswapd could know there were 69 free pages correctly. =20 Since zone->_watermark =3D {8, 20, 32}, kswapd did not work because =20 69 was greater than 32 as high watermark. =20 Change allow_direct_reclaim to use zone_page_state_snapshot, which allows a more precise version of the vmstat counters to be used. allow_direct_reclaim will only be called from try_to_free_pages, which is not a hot path. Suggested-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Acked-by: Michal Hocko --- Index: linux-vmstat-remote/mm/vmscan.c =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --- linux-vmstat-remote.orig/mm/vmscan.c +++ linux-vmstat-remote/mm/vmscan.c @@ -6861,7 +6861,7 @@ static bool allow_direct_reclaim(pg_data continue; =20 pfmemalloc_reserve +=3D min_wmark_pages(zone); - free_pages +=3D zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); + free_pages +=3D zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES); } =20 /* If there are no reserves (unexpected config) then do not throttle */