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[173.79.60.52]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-93f56c6ef4dsm261445385a.3.2026.10.21.06.42.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:42:20 -0400 From: Gregory Price To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kasong@tencent.com, qi.zheng@linux.dev, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, baohua@kernel.org, axelrasmussen@google.com, yuanchu@google.com, weixugc@google.com, baoquan.he@linux.dev, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, david@kernel.org, mhocko@kernel.org, dave@stgolabs.net, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: reclaim every zone in per-node proactive reclaim Message-ID: References: <20261019185002.3428594-1-gourry@gourry.net> X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 01:31:32PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 02:50:02PM -0400, Gregory Price (Meta) wrote: > > 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. > > > > Fixes: b980077899ea4 ("mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interface") > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) > > Seems sensible to me, and since it's become the review of the ages (TM) let's > try and get some kind of tag record here :P > > Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) > 1 line change 20 acks This is the way. ~Gregory