linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: don't check page lru flag before draining it

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Message-ID: <776de760-e817-43b2-bd00-8ce96f4e37a8@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 11:41:24 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: yangge1116 <yangge1116@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
 Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com, liuzixing@...on.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: don't check page lru flag before draining it

On 05.06.24 03:18, yangge1116 wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2024/6/4 下午9:47, David Hildenbrand 写道:
>> On 04.06.24 12:48, yangge1116@....com wrote:
>>> From: yangge <yangge1116@....com>
>>>
>>> If a page is added in pagevec, its ref count increases one, remove
>>> the page from pagevec decreases one. Page migration requires the
>>> page is not referenced by others except page mapping. Before
>>> migrating a page, we should try to drain the page from pagevec in
>>> case the page is in it, however, folio_test_lru() is not sufficient
>>> to tell whether the page is in pagevec or not, if the page is in
>>> pagevec, the migration will fail.
>>>
>>> Remove the condition and drain lru once to ensure the page is not
>>> referenced by pagevec.
>>
>> What you are saying is that we might have a page on which
>> folio_test_lru() succeeds, that was added to one of the cpu_fbatches,
>> correct?
> 
> Yes
> 
>>
>> Can you describe under which circumstances that happens?
>>
> 
> If we call folio_activate() to move a page from inactive LRU list to
> active LRU list, the page is not only in LRU list, but also in one of
> the cpu_fbatches.
> 
> void folio_activate(struct folio *folio)
> {
>       if (folio_test_lru(folio) && !folio_test_active(folio) &&
>           !folio_test_unevictable(folio)) {
>           struct folio_batch *fbatch;
> 
>           folio_get(folio);
>           //After this, folio is in LRU list, and its ref count have
> increased one.
> 
>           local_lock(&cpu_fbatches.lock);
>           fbatch = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_fbatches.activate);
>           folio_batch_add_and_move(fbatch, folio, folio_activate_fn);
>           local_unlock(&cpu_fbatches.lock);
>       }
> }

Interesting, the !SMP variant does the folio_test_clear_lru().

It would be really helpful if we could reliably identify whether LRU 
batching code has a raised reference on a folio.

We have the same scenario in
* folio_deactivate()
* folio_mark_lazyfree()

In folio_batch_move_lru() we do the folio_test_clear_lru(folio).

No expert on that code, I'm wondering if we could move the 
folio_test_clear_lru() out, such that we can more reliably identify 
whether a folio is on the LRU batch or not.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb