From nobody Wed Dec 31 08:46:43 2025 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 52330C4167D for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2023 06:46:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230521AbjKFGqv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2023 01:46:51 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34036 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231202AbjKFGqg (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Nov 2023 01:46:36 -0500 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7866410C8 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2023 22:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dggpemd200004.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4SP1xr3vhBzrTsx; Mon, 6 Nov 2023 14:42:56 +0800 (CST) Received: from huawei.com (10.175.113.32) by dggpemd200004.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.141) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.2.1258.23; Mon, 6 Nov 2023 14:46:04 +0800 From: Liu Shixin To: Andrew Morton , Yosry Ahmed , Huang Ying , Sachin Sant , Michal Hocko , Johannes Weiner , Kefeng Wang CC: , , Liu Shixin Subject: [PATCH v8] mm: vmscan: try to reclaim swapcache pages if no swap space Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 15:44:52 +0800 Message-ID: <20231106074452.2581835-1-liushixin2@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.175.113.32] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems701-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.178) To dggpemd200004.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.141) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" When spaces of swap devices are exhausted, only file pages can be reclaimed. But there are still some swapcache pages in anon lru list. This can lead to a premature out-of-memory. The problem is found with such step: Firstly, set a 9MB disk swap space, then create a cgroup with 10MB memory limit, then runs an program to allocates about 15MB memory. The problem occurs occasionally, which may need about 100 times [1]. Fix it by checking number of swapcache pages in can_reclaim_anon_pages(). If the number is not zero, return true and set swapcache_only to 1. When scan anon lru list in swapcache_only mode, non-swapcache pages will be skipped to isolate in order to accelerate reclaim efficiency. However, in swapcache_only mode, the scan count still increased when scan non-swapcache pages because there are large number of non-swapcache pages and rare swapcache pages in swapcache_only mode, and if the non-swapcache is skipped and do not count, the scan of pages in isolate_lru_folios() can eventually lead to hung task, just as Sachin reported [2]. By the way, since there are enough times of memory reclaim before OOM, it is not need to isolate too much swapcache pages in one times. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAJD7tkZAfgncV+KbKr36=3DeDzMnT=3D9dZOT0dp= MWcurHLr6Do+GA@mail.gmail.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAJD7tkafz_2XAuqE8tGLPEcpLngewhUo=3D5= US14PAtSM9tLBUQg@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin Tested-by: Yosry Ahmed Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed --- v7->v8: Reset swapcache_only at the beginning of can_reclaim_anon_pages(). v6->v7: Reset swapcache_only to zero after there are swap spaces. v5->v6: Fix NULL pointing derefence and hung task problem reported by Sachi= n. include/linux/swap.h | 6 ++++++ mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++++++ mm/vmscan.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index f6dd6575b905..3ba146ae7cf5 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t= entry, unsigned int nr_p } =20 extern long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); +extern long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg); extern bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio); #else static inline void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t ent= ry) @@ -681,6 +682,11 @@ static inline long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct= mem_cgroup *memcg) return get_nr_swap_pages(); } =20 +static inline long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(struct mem_cgroup *me= mcg) +{ + return total_swapcache_pages(); +} + static inline bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio) { return vm_swap_full(); diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 5b009b233ab8..29e34c06ca83 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -7584,6 +7584,14 @@ long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup = *memcg) return nr_swap_pages; } =20 +long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) + return total_swapcache_pages(); + + return memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_SWAPCACHE); +} + bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg; diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 6f13394b112e..5d5a169ec98c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ struct scan_control { /* Always discard instead of demoting to lower tier memory */ unsigned int no_demotion:1; =20 + /* Swap space is exhausted, only reclaim swapcache for anon LRU */ + unsigned int swapcache_only:1; + /* Allocation order */ s8 order; =20 @@ -606,6 +609,9 @@ static inline bool can_reclaim_anon_pages(struct mem_cg= roup *memcg, int nid, struct scan_control *sc) { + if (sc) + sc->swapcache_only =3D 0; + if (memcg =3D=3D NULL) { /* * For non-memcg reclaim, is there @@ -613,10 +619,22 @@ static inline bool can_reclaim_anon_pages(struct mem_= cgroup *memcg, */ if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0) return true; + /* Is there any swapcache pages to reclaim? */ + if (total_swapcache_pages() > 0) { + if (sc) + sc->swapcache_only =3D 1; + return true; + } } else { /* Is the memcg below its swap limit? */ if (mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) > 0) return true; + /* Is there any swapcache pages in memcg to reclaim? */ + if (mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(memcg) > 0) { + if (sc) + sc->swapcache_only =3D 1; + return true; + } } =20 /* @@ -2342,6 +2360,15 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_folios(unsigned lon= g nr_to_scan, */ scan +=3D nr_pages; =20 + /* + * Count non-swapcache too because the swapcache pages may + * be rare and it takes too much times here if not count + * the non-swapcache pages. + */ + if (unlikely(sc->swapcache_only && !is_file_lru(lru) && + !folio_test_swapcache(folio))) + goto move; + if (!folio_test_lru(folio)) goto move; if (!sc->may_unmap && folio_mapped(folio)) --=20 2.25.1