linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1] mm/page_alloc: try not to overestimate free highatomic

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Message-ID: <CAOUHufZ1fBvj0DgxtuLvwMAu-qx=jFAqM5RaooXzuYqCCTK1QA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:10:50 -0600
From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Link Lin <linkl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1] mm/page_alloc: try not to overestimate
 free highatomic

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 2:13 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat 19-10-24 23:13:15, Yu Zhao wrote:
> > OOM kills due to vastly overestimated free highatomic reserves were
> > observed:
> >
> >   ... invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), order=0 ...
> >   Node 0 Normal free:1482936kB boost:0kB min:410416kB low:739404kB high:1068392kB reserved_highatomic:1073152KB ...
> >   Node 0 Normal: 1292*4kB (ME) 1920*8kB (E) 383*16kB (UE) 220*32kB (ME) 340*64kB (E) 2155*128kB (UE) 3243*256kB (UE) 615*512kB (U) 1*1024kB (M) 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1477408kB
> >
> > The second line above shows that the OOM kill was due to the following
> > condition:
> >
> >   free (1482936kB) - reserved_highatomic (1073152kB) = 409784KB < min (410416kB)
> >
> > And the third line shows there were no free pages in any
> > MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC pageblocks, which otherwise would show up as type
> > 'H'. Therefore __zone_watermark_unusable_free() overestimated free
> > highatomic reserves. IOW, it underestimated the usable free memory by
> > over 1GB, which resulted in the unnecessary OOM kill.
>
> Why doesn't unreserve_highatomic_pageblock deal with this situation?

The current behavior of unreserve_highatomic_pageblock() seems WAI to
me: it unreserves highatomic pageblocks that contain *free* pages so
that those pages can become usable to others. There is nothing to
unreserve when they have no free pages.