Patch "mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn based migration" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn based migration

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-compaction-fix-nr_isolated_-stats-for-pfn-based-migration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6afcf8ef0ca0a69d014f8edb613d94821f0ae700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Ling <ming.ling@spreadtrum.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:42:26 -0800
Subject: mm, compaction: fix NR_ISOLATED_* stats for pfn based migration

From: Ming Ling <ming.ling@spreadtrum.com>

commit 6afcf8ef0ca0a69d014f8edb613d94821f0ae700 upstream.

Since commit bda807d44454 ("mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page
migration") isolate_migratepages_block) can isolate !PageLRU pages which
would acct_isolated account as NR_ISOLATED_*.  Accounting these non-lru
pages NR_ISOLATED_{ANON,FILE} doesn't make any sense and it can misguide
heuristics based on those counters such as pgdat_reclaimable_pages resp.
too_many_isolated which would lead to unexpected stalls during the
direct reclaim without any good reason.  Note that
__alloc_contig_migrate_range can isolate a lot of pages at once.

On mobile devices such as 512M ram android Phone, it may use a big zram
swap.  In some cases zram(zsmalloc) uses too many non-lru but
migratedable pages, such as:

      MemTotal: 468148 kB
      Normal free:5620kB
      Free swap:4736kB
      Total swap:409596kB
      ZRAM: 164616kB(zsmalloc non-lru pages)
      active_anon:60700kB
      inactive_anon:60744kB
      active_file:34420kB
      inactive_file:37532kB

Fix this by only accounting lru pages to NR_ISOLATED_* in
isolate_migratepages_block right after they were isolated and we still
know they were on LRU.  Drop acct_isolated because it is called after
the fact and we've lost that information.  Batching per-cpu counter
doesn't make much improvement anyway.  Also make sure that we uncharge
only LRU pages when putting them back on the LRU in
putback_movable_pages resp.  when unmap_and_move migrates the page.

[mhocko@suse.com: replace acct_isolated() with direct counting]
Fixes: bda807d44454 ("mm: migrate: support non-lru movable page migration")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161019080240.9682-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Ling <ming.ling@spreadtrum.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.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/compaction.c |   25 +++----------------------
 mm/migrate.c    |   15 +++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -634,22 +634,6 @@ isolate_freepages_range(struct compact_c
 	return pfn;
 }
 
-/* Update the number of anon and file isolated pages in the zone */
-static void acct_isolated(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
-{
-	struct page *page;
-	unsigned int count[2] = { 0, };
-
-	if (list_empty(&cc->migratepages))
-		return;
-
-	list_for_each_entry(page, &cc->migratepages, lru)
-		count[!!page_is_file_cache(page)]++;
-
-	mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_ISOLATED_ANON, count[0]);
-	mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_ISOLATED_FILE, count[1]);
-}
-
 /* Similar to reclaim, but different enough that they don't share logic */
 static bool too_many_isolated(struct zone *zone)
 {
@@ -866,6 +850,8 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compac
 
 		/* Successfully isolated */
 		del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
+		inc_node_page_state(page,
+				NR_ISOLATED_ANON + page_is_file_cache(page));
 
 isolate_success:
 		list_add(&page->lru, &cc->migratepages);
@@ -902,7 +888,6 @@ isolate_fail:
 				spin_unlock_irqrestore(zone_lru_lock(zone), flags);
 				locked = false;
 			}
-			acct_isolated(zone, cc);
 			putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
 			cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
 			cc->last_migrated_pfn = 0;
@@ -988,7 +973,6 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compac
 		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
 			break;
 	}
-	acct_isolated(cc->zone, cc);
 
 	return pfn;
 }
@@ -1258,10 +1242,8 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migrate
 		low_pfn = isolate_migratepages_block(cc, low_pfn,
 						block_end_pfn, isolate_mode);
 
-		if (!low_pfn || cc->contended) {
-			acct_isolated(zone, cc);
+		if (!low_pfn || cc->contended)
 			return ISOLATE_ABORT;
-		}
 
 		/*
 		 * Either we isolated something and proceed with migration. Or
@@ -1271,7 +1253,6 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migrate
 		break;
 	}
 
-	acct_isolated(zone, cc);
 	/* Record where migration scanner will be restarted. */
 	cc->migrate_pfn = low_pfn;
 
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -168,8 +168,6 @@ void putback_movable_pages(struct list_h
 			continue;
 		}
 		list_del(&page->lru);
-		dec_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
-				page_is_file_cache(page));
 		/*
 		 * We isolated non-lru movable page so here we can use
 		 * __PageMovable because LRU page's mapping cannot have
@@ -186,6 +184,8 @@ void putback_movable_pages(struct list_h
 			put_page(page);
 		} else {
 			putback_lru_page(page);
+			dec_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+					page_is_file_cache(page));
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -1121,8 +1121,15 @@ out:
 		 * restored.
 		 */
 		list_del(&page->lru);
-		dec_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
-				page_is_file_cache(page));
+
+		/*
+		 * Compaction can migrate also non-LRU pages which are
+		 * not accounted to NR_ISOLATED_*. They can be recognized
+		 * as __PageMovable
+		 */
+		if (likely(!__PageMovable(page)))
+			dec_node_page_state(page, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+					page_is_file_cache(page));
 	}
 
 	/*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ming.ling@spreadtrum.com are

queue-4.9/mm-compaction-fix-nr_isolated_-stats-for-pfn-based-migration.patch