linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene

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Message-ID: <20230915150533.GA426926@monkey>
Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:05:33 -0700
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene

On 09/15/23 10:16, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 04:52:38PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > In next-20230913, I started hitting the following BUG.  Seems related
> > to this series.  And, if series is reverted I do not see the BUG.
> > 
> > I can easily reproduce on a small 16G VM.  kernel command line contains
> > "hugetlb_free_vmemmap=on hugetlb_cma=4G".  Then run the script,
> > while true; do
> >  echo 4 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
> >  echo 4 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/demote
> >  echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages
> > done
> > 
> > For the BUG below I believe it was the first (or second) 1G page creation from
> > CMA that triggered:  cma_alloc of 1G.
> > 
> > Sorry, have not looked deeper into the issue.
> 
> Thanks for the report, and sorry about the breakage!
> 
> I was scratching my head at this:
> 
>                         /* MIGRATE_ISOLATE page should not go to pcplists */
>                         VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_migrate_isolate(mt), page);
> 
> because there is nothing in page isolation that prevents setting
> MIGRATE_ISOLATE on something that's on the pcplist already. So why
> didn't this trigger before already?
> 
> Then it clicked: it used to only check the *pcpmigratetype* determined
> by free_unref_page(), which of course mustn't be MIGRATE_ISOLATE.
> 
> Pages that get isolated while *already* on the pcplist are fine, and
> are handled properly:
> 
>                         mt = get_pcppage_migratetype(page);
> 
>                         /* MIGRATE_ISOLATE page should not go to pcplists */
>                         VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_migrate_isolate(mt), page);
> 
>                         /* Pageblock could have been isolated meanwhile */
>                         if (unlikely(isolated_pageblocks))
>                                 mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(page);
> 
> So this was purely a sanity check against the pcpmigratetype cache
> operations. With that gone, we can remove it.

Thanks!  That makes sense.

Glad my testing (for something else) triggered it.
-- 
Mike Kravetz