linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 4/8] khugepaged: Drain LRU add pagevec after swapin

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Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:59:09 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>, Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/8] khugepaged: Drain LRU add pagevec after swapin

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 09:41:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:00:22 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > __collapse_huge_page_isolate() may fail due to extra pin in the LRU add
> > pagevec. It's pretty common for swapin case: we swap in pages just to
> > fail due to the extra pin.
> > 
> > Drain LRU add pagevec on successful swapin.
> 
> I don't see how this patch can do anything to prevent
> __collapse_huge_page_isolate() from failing, which is what the
> changelog implies.
> 
> Can we have a more detailed changelog, please?

What about something like this:
 
    khugepaged: Drain LRU add pagevec after swapin

    collapse_huge_page() tries to swap in pages that are part of the PMD
    range. Just swapped in page goes though LRU add cache. The cache gets
    extra reference on the page.

    The extra reference can lead to the collapse fail: the following
    __collapse_huge_page_isolate() would check refcount and abort collapse
    seeing unexpected refcount.

    The fix is to drain local LRU add cache in __collapse_huge_page_swapin()
    if we successfully swapped in any pages.

    Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
    Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
    Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>


-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov