Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
With "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures" reverted, Zdenek Kabelac reported the following Hmm, so it's just took longer to hit the problem and observe kswapd0 spinning on my CPU again - it's not as endless like before - but still it easily eats minutes - it helps to turn off Firefox or TB (memory hungry apps) so kswapd0 stops soon - and restart those apps again. (And I still have like >1GB of cached memory) kswapd0 R running task 0 30 2 0x00000000 Call Trace: preempt_schedule+0x42/0x60 _raw_spin_unlock+0x55/0x60 put_super+0x31/0x40 drop_super+0x22/0x30 prune_super+0x149/0x1b0 shrink_slab+0xba/0x510 The sysrq+m indicates the system has no swap so it'll never reclaim anonymous pages as part of reclaim/compaction. That is one part of the problem but not the root cause as file-backed pages could also be reclaimed. The likely underlying problem is that kswapd is woken up or kept awake for each THP allocation request in the page allocator slow path. If compaction fails for the requesting process then compaction will be deferred for a time and direct reclaim is avoided. However, if there are a storm of THP requests that are simply rejected, it will still be the the case that kswapd is awake for a prolonged period of time as pgdat->kswapd_max_order is updated each time. This is noticed by the main kswapd() loop and it will not call kswapd_try_to_sleep(). Instead it will loopp, shrinking a small number of pages and calling shrink_slab() on each iteration. The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not backed up by proper testing. As 3.7 is very close to release and this is not a bug we should release with, a safer path is to revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" for now and revisit it with the view to ironing out the balance_pgdat() logic in general. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mtd_writev);
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* until the request succeeds or until the allocation size falls below
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* the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
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* the system page size. This attempts to make sure it does not adversely
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* impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
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* impact system performance, so when allocating more than one page, we
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* ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying.
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* ask the memory allocator to avoid re-trying, swapping, writing back
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* or performing I/O.
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* Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
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* Note, this function also makes sure that the allocated buffer is aligned to
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* the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
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* the MTD device's min. I/O unit, i.e. the "mtd->writesize" value.
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*/
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*/
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void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
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void *mtd_kmalloc_up_to(const struct mtd_info *mtd, size_t *size)
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{
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{
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gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
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gfp_t flags = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT |
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__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NO_KSWAPD;
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size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
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size_t min_alloc = max_t(size_t, mtd->writesize, PAGE_SIZE);
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void *kbuf;
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void *kbuf;
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#define ___GFP_THISNODE 0x40000u
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#define ___GFP_THISNODE 0x40000u
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#define ___GFP_RECLAIMABLE 0x80000u
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#define ___GFP_RECLAIMABLE 0x80000u
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#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x200000u
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#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x200000u
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#define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u
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#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u
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#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u
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#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000000u
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#define ___GFP_WRITE 0x1000000u
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#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
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#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
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#define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) /* Don't track with kmemcheck */
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#define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) /* Don't track with kmemcheck */
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#define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
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#define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */
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#define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */
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#define __GFP_WRITE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE) /* Allocator intends to dirty page */
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#define __GFP_WRITE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE) /* Allocator intends to dirty page */
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#define GFP_IOFS (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
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#define GFP_IOFS (__GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
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#define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
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#define GFP_TRANSHUGE (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE | __GFP_COMP | \
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__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN)
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__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
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#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
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#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
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#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
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{(unsigned long)__GFP_RECLAIMABLE, "GFP_RECLAIMABLE"}, \
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{(unsigned long)__GFP_MOVABLE, "GFP_MOVABLE"}, \
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{(unsigned long)__GFP_NOTRACK, "GFP_NOTRACK"}, \
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{(unsigned long)__GFP_OTHER_NODE, "GFP_OTHER_NODE"} \
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wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
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zone_idx(preferred_zone));
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(gfp_mask & (__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_REPEAT)) == __GFP_MOVABLE)
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/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
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/* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */
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