[PATCH 4.14 39/56] mm/vmscan.c: prevent useless kswapd loops

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-08T15:25:21Z

From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>

commit dffcac2cb88e4ec5906235d64a83d802580b119e upstream.

In production we have noticed hard lockups on large machines running
large jobs due to kswaps hoarding lru lock within isolate_lru_pages when
sc->reclaim_idx is 0 which is a small zone. The lru was couple hundred
GiBs and the condition (page_zonenum(page) > sc->reclaim_idx) in
isolate_lru_pages() was basically skipping GiBs of pages while holding
the LRU spinlock with interrupt disabled.

On further inspection, it seems like there are two issues:

(1) If kswapd on the return from balance_pgdat() could not sleep (i.e.
node is still unbalanced), the classzone_idx is unintentionally set
to 0 and the whole reclaim cycle of kswapd will try to reclaim only
the lowest and smallest zone while traversing the whole memory.

(2) Fundamentally isolate_lru_pages() is really bad when the
allocation has woken kswapd for a smaller zone on a very large machine
running very large jobs. It can hoard the LRU spinlock while skipping
over 100s of GiBs of pages.

This patch only fixes (1). (2) needs a more fundamental solution. To
fix (1), in the kswapd context, if pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx is
invalid use the classzone_idx of the previous kswapd loop otherwise use
the one the waker has requested.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190701201847.251028-1-shakeelb@google.com
Fixes: e716f2eb24de ("mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd sleeping prematurely due to mismatched classzone_idx")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
mm/vmscan.c | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3439,19 +3439,18 @@ out:
}

/*
- * pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx is the highest zone index that a recent
- * allocation request woke kswapd for. When kswapd has not woken recently,
- * the value is MAX_NR_ZONES which is not a valid index. This compares a
- * given classzone and returns it or the highest classzone index kswapd
- * was recently woke for.
+ * The pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx is used to pass the highest zone index to be
+ * reclaimed by kswapd from the waker. If the value is MAX_NR_ZONES which is not
+ * a valid index then either kswapd runs for first time or kswapd couldn't sleep
+ * after previous reclaim attempt (node is still unbalanced). In that case
+ * return the zone index of the previous kswapd reclaim cycle.
*/
static enum zone_type kswapd_classzone_idx(pg_data_t *pgdat,
- enum zone_type classzone_idx)
+ enum zone_type prev_classzone_idx)
{
if (pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx == MAX_NR_ZONES)
- return classzone_idx;
-
- return max(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx, classzone_idx);
+ return prev_classzone_idx;
+ return pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx;
}

static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int alloc_order, int reclaim_order,
@@ -3592,7 +3591,7 @@ kswapd_try_sleep:

/* Read the new order and classzone_idx */
alloc_order = reclaim_order = pgdat->kswapd_order;
- classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat, 0);
+ classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat, classzone_idx);
pgdat->kswapd_order = 0;
pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = MAX_NR_ZONES;

@@ -3643,8 +3642,12 @@ void wakeup_kswapd(struct zone *zone, in
if (!cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HARDWALL))
return;
pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
- pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = kswapd_classzone_idx(pgdat,
- classzone_idx);
+
+ if (pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx == MAX_NR_ZONES)
+ pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
+ else
+ pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx = max(pgdat->kswapd_classzone_idx,
+ classzone_idx);
pgdat->kswapd_order = max(pgdat->kswapd_order, order);
if (!waitqueue_active(&pgdat->kswapd_wait))
return;