linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mm/page_alloc: add freepage on isolate pageblock to correct buddy list

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:14:55 +0100
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Laura Abbott <lauraa@...eaurora.org>,
	Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@...sung.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>,
	t.stanislaws@...sung.com, Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@....com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] mm/page_alloc: add freepage on isolate pageblock to correct buddy list

On Thu, Oct 23 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> In free_pcppages_bulk(), we use cached migratetype of freepage
> to determine type of buddy list where freepage will be added.
> This information is stored when freepage is added to pcp list, so
> if isolation of pageblock of this freepage begins after storing,
> this cached information could be stale. In other words, it has
> original migratetype rather than MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
>
> There are two problems caused by this stale information. One is that
> we can't keep these freepages from being allocated. Although this
> pageblock is isolated, freepage will be added to normal buddy list
> so that it could be allocated without any restriction. And the other
> problem is incorrect freepage accounting. Freepages on isolate pageblock
> should not be counted for number of freepage.
>
> Following is the code snippet in free_pcppages_bulk().
>
> /* MIGRATE_MOVABLE list may include MIGRATE_RESERVEs */
> __free_one_page(page, page_to_pfn(page), zone, 0, mt);
> trace_mm_page_pcpu_drain(page, 0, mt);
> if (likely(!is_migrate_isolate_page(page))) {
> 	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, 1);
> 	if (is_migrate_cma(mt))
> 		__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES, 1);
> }
>
> As you can see above snippet, current code already handle second problem,
> incorrect freepage accounting, by re-fetching pageblock migratetype
> through is_migrate_isolate_page(page). But, because this re-fetched
> information isn't used for __free_one_page(), first problem would not be
> solved. This patch try to solve this situation to re-fetch pageblock
> migratetype before __free_one_page() and to use it for __free_one_page().
>
> In addition to move up position of this re-fetch, this patch use
> optimization technique, re-fetching migratetype only if there is
> isolate pageblock. Pageblock isolation is rare event, so we can
> avoid re-fetching in common case with this optimization.
>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>

> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c |   13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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