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Message-ID: <CAEtiSavGmp=V37jxmLm2eQyRP3F08KotF9Dma5JCn7uaJbPo+w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 19:01:09 +0530
From: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@...il.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
tim.bird@...sony.com, frank.rowand@...sony.com,
takuzo.ohara@...sony.com, kan.iibuchi@...sony.com,
aaditya.kumar@...sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever problem
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
> When hotplug offlining happens on zone A, it starts to mark freed page
> as MIGRATE_ISOLATE type in buddy for preventing further allocation.
> (MIGRATE_ISOLATE is very irony type because it's apparently on buddy
> but we can't allocate them).
> When the memory shortage happens during hotplug offlining,
> current task starts to reclaim, then wake up kswapd.
> Kswapd checks watermark, then go sleep because current zone_watermark_ok_safe
> doesn't consider MIGRATE_ISOLATE freed page count.
> Current task continue to reclaim in direct reclaim path without kswapd's helping.
> The problem is that zone->all_unreclaimable is set by only kswapd
> so that current task would be looping forever like below.
>
> __alloc_pages_slowpath
> restart:
> wake_all_kswapd
> rebalance:
> __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim
> do_try_to_free_pages
> if global_reclaim && !all_unreclaimable
> return 1; /* It means we did did_some_progress */
> skip __alloc_pages_may_oom
> should_alloc_retry
> goto rebalance;
>
> If we apply KOSAKI's patch[1] which doesn't depends on kswapd
> about setting zone->all_unreclaimable, we can solve this problem
> by killing some task in direct reclaim path. But it doesn't wake up kswapd, still.
> It could be a problem still if other subsystem needs GFP_ATOMIC request.
> So kswapd should consider MIGRATE_ISOLATE when it calculate free pages
> BEFORE going sleep.
>
> This patch counts the number of MIGRATE_ISOLATE page block and
> zone_watermark_ok_safe will consider it if the system has such blocks
> (fortunately, it's very rare so no problem in POV overhead and kswapd is never
> hotpath).
>
> Copy/modify from Mel's quote
> "
> Ideal solution would be "allocating" the pageblock.
> It would keep the free space accounting as it is but historically,
> memory hotplug didn't allocate pages because it would be difficult to
> detect if a pageblock was isolated or if part of some balloon.
> Allocating just full pageblocks would work around this, However,
> it would play very badly with CMA.
> "
>
> [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/14/74
>
> * from v1
> - add changelog
> - make functions simple
> - remove atomic variable
> - discard exact isolated free page accounting.
> - rebased on next-20120626
>
> Suggested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@...il.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
>
> Aaditya, coul you confirm this patch solve your problem and
> make sure nr_pageblock_isolate is zero after hotplug end?
I am really sorry for the delay.
I just tried this patch on my ARM setup.
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION
> +static inline unsigned long nr_zone_isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone)
> +{
> + unsigned long nr_pages = 0;
> +
> + if (unlikely(zone->nr_pageblock_isolate)) {
> + nr_pages = zone->nr_pageblock_isolate * pageblock_nr_pages;
> + }
> + return nr_pages;
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline unsigned long nr_zone_isolate_freepages(struct zone *zone)
> +{
> + return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> bool zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
> int classzone_idx, int alloc_flags)
> {
> @@ -1629,6 +1651,14 @@ bool zone_watermark_ok_safe(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
> if (z->percpu_drift_mark && free_pages < z->percpu_drift_mark)
> free_pages = zone_page_state_snapshot(z, NR_FREE_PAGES);
>
> + /*
> + * If the zone has MIGRATE_ISOLATE type free page,
> + * we should consider it. nr_zone_isolate_freepages is never
> + * accurate so kswapd might not sleep although she can.
> + * But it's more desirable for memory hotplug rather than
> + * forever sleep which cause livelock in direct reclaim path.
> + */
> + free_pages -= nr_zone_isolate_freepages(z);
> return __zone_watermark_ok(z, order, mark, classzone_idx, alloc_flags,
> free_pages);
For my test case, pages to be off lined span the whole node.
With this setup the free_pages become negative. (As you and Kamezawa-san
already expected.)
BUT because of free_pages going negative the memory off lining still livelocks
as __zone_watermark_ok() returns true.
This is because in below if comparison, because of an unsigned value
(z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
all the longs are converted to unsigned long.
static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, int order, unsigned long mark,
int classzone_idx, int alloc_flags, long free_pages)
{
<snip>
if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
return false;
<snip>
So, may be you can consider following also:
As for the nr_pageblock_isolate going back to zero, yes it is going back to zero
for my test case.(I tested after this change)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1594,6 +1594,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z,
int order, unsigned long mark,
{
/* free_pages my go negative - that's OK */
long min = mark;
+ long lowmem_res = z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx];
int o;
free_pages -= (1 << order) - 1;
@@ -1602,7 +1603,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z,
int order, unsigned long mark,
if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)
min -= min / 4;
- if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
+ if (free_pages <= min + lowmem_res)
return false;
--
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