* + mm-vmscan-reclaim-every-zone-in-per-node-proactive-reclaim.patch added to mm-unstable branch
@ 2026-10-19 21:19 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-10-19 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The patch titled
Subject: mm/vmscan: reclaim every zone in per-node proactive reclaim
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-vmscan-reclaim-every-zone-in-per-node-proactive-reclaim.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmscan-reclaim-every-zone-in-per-node-proactive-reclaim.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: "Gregory Price (Meta)" <gourry@gourry.net>
Subject: mm/vmscan: reclaim every zone in per-node proactive reclaim
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:50:02 -0400
user_proactive_reclaim() limits per-node reclaim to
gfp_zone(GFP_KERNEL), which is ZONE_NORMAL. Proactive reclaim serves no
allocation, but that limit makes shrink_node() skip every ZONE_MOVABLE
folio, so writing to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/reclaim never
reclaims a node's movable memory. A movable-only node, such as dax/kmem
or hotplugged memory onlined movable, reclaims nothing and fails with
-EAGAIN.
To reproduce, fill a movable-only node with clean page cache and write
200M to its nodeN/reclaim: the write fails with -EAGAIN and the page
cache stays. The same write to a ZONE_NORMAL node frees 200MB.
Scan every zone, as memory.reclaim does.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261019185002.3428594-1-gourry@gourry.net
Fixes: b980077899ea ("mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interface")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-reclaim-every-zone-in-per-node-proactive-reclaim
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -8185,7 +8185,7 @@ int user_proactive_reclaim(char *buf,
} else {
struct scan_control sc = {
.gfp_mask = current_gfp_context(gfp_mask),
- .reclaim_idx = gfp_zone(gfp_mask),
+ .reclaim_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1,
.proactive_swappiness = swappiness == -1 ? NULL : &swappiness,
.priority = DEF_PRIORITY,
.may_writepage = 1,
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from gourry@gourry.net are
mm-damon-use-damon_get_monitor_folio-for-hugetlb-entries.patch
mm-vmscan-reclaim-every-zone-in-per-node-proactive-reclaim.patch
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