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Message-Id: <20241025212448.b1a9069d71df5b497e1b0190@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:24:48 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Link Lin
<linkl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v2] mm/page_alloc: keep track of free
highatomic
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:36:25 -0600 Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com> 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
Under what circumstances?
> 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() underestimated the
> usable free memory by over 1GB, which resulted in the unnecessary OOM
> kill above.
>
> The comments in __zone_watermark_unusable_free() warns about the
> potential risk, i.e.,
>
> If the caller does not have rights to reserves below the min
> watermark then subtract the high-atomic reserves. This will
> over-estimate the size of the atomic reserve but it avoids a search.
>
> However, it is possible to keep track of free pages in reserved
> highatomic pageblocks with a new per-zone counter nr_free_highatomic
> protected by the zone lock, to avoid a search when calculating the
> usable free memory. And the cost would be minimal, i.e., simple
> arithmetics in the highatomic alloc/free/move paths.
Is a -stable backport needed?
If so, is a Fixes: target identifiable?
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