mainline inclusion from mainline-v6.15-rc1 commit c2f6ea38fc1b640aa7a2e155cc1c0410ff91afa2 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/IBC4T0 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... -------------------------------- The fallback code searches for the biggest buddy first in an attempt to steal the whole block and encourage type grouping down the line. The approach used to be this: - Non-movable requests will split the largest buddy and steal the remainder. This splits up contiguity, but it allows subsequent requests of this type to fall back into adjacent space. - Movable requests go and look for the smallest buddy instead. The thinking is that movable requests can be compacted, so grouping is less important than retaining contiguity. c0cd6f557b90 ("mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion") enforces freelist type hygiene, which restricts stealing to either claiming the whole block or just taking the requested chunk; no additional pages or buddy remainders can be stolen any more. The patch mishandled when to switch to finding the smallest buddy in that new reality. As a result, it may steal the exact request size, but from the biggest buddy. This causes fracturing for no good reason. Fix this by committing to the new behavior: either steal the whole block, or fall back to the smallest buddy. Remove single-page stealing from steal_suitable_fallback(). Rename it to try_to_steal_block() to make the intentions clear. If this fails, always fall back to the smallest buddy. The following is from 4 runs of mmtest's thpchallenge. "Pollute" is single page fallback, "steal" is conversion of a partially used block. The numbers for free block conversions (omitted) are comparable. vanilla patched @pollute[unmovable from reclaimable]: 27 106 @pollute[unmovable from movable]: 82 46 @pollute[reclaimable from unmovable]: 256 83 @pollute[reclaimable from movable]: 46 8 @pollute[movable from unmovable]: 4841 868 @pollute[movable from reclaimable]: 5278 12568 @steal[unmovable from reclaimable]: 11 12 @steal[unmovable from movable]: 113 49 @steal[reclaimable from unmovable]: 19 34 @steal[reclaimable from movable]: 47 21 @steal[movable from unmovable]: 250 183 @steal[movable from reclaimable]: 81 93 The allocator appears to do a better job at keeping stealing and polluting to the first fallback preference. As a result, the numbers for "from movable" - the least preferred fallback option, and most detrimental to compactability - are down across the board. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250225001023.1494422-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: c0cd6f557b90 ("mm: page_alloc: fix freelist movement during block conversion") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Conflicts: mm/page_alloc.c [Context conflicts due to MAX_ORDER] Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index ba8d280c3b72..eecb3600fac3 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1899,13 +1899,12 @@ static inline bool boost_watermark(struct zone *zone) * can claim the whole pageblock for the requested migratetype. If not, we check * the pageblock for constituent pages; if at least half of the pages are free * or compatible, we can still claim the whole block, so pages freed in the - * future will be put on the correct free list. Otherwise, we isolate exactly - * the order we need from the fallback block and leave its migratetype alone. + * future will be put on the correct free list. */ static struct page * -steal_suitable_fallback(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, - int current_order, int order, int start_type, - unsigned int alloc_flags, bool whole_block) +try_to_steal_block(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, + int current_order, int order, int start_type, + unsigned int alloc_flags) { int free_pages, movable_pages, alike_pages; unsigned long start_pfn; @@ -1918,7 +1917,7 @@ steal_suitable_fallback(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, * highatomic accounting. */ if (is_migrate_highatomic(block_type)) - goto single_page; + return NULL; /* Take ownership for orders >= pageblock_order */ if (current_order >= pageblock_order) { @@ -1939,14 +1938,10 @@ steal_suitable_fallback(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, if (boost_watermark(zone) && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_KSWAPD)) set_bit(ZONE_BOOSTED_WATERMARK, &zone->flags); - /* We are not allowed to try stealing from the whole block */ - if (!whole_block) - goto single_page; - /* moving whole block can fail due to zone boundary conditions */ if (!prep_move_freepages_block(zone, page, &start_pfn, &free_pages, &movable_pages)) - goto single_page; + return NULL; /* * Determine how many pages are compatible with our allocation. @@ -1979,9 +1974,7 @@ steal_suitable_fallback(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, return __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, start_type); } -single_page: - page_del_and_expand(zone, page, order, current_order, block_type); - return page; + return NULL; } /* @@ -2163,14 +2156,19 @@ static bool unreserve_highatomic_pageblock(const struct alloc_context *ac, } /* - * Try finding a free buddy page on the fallback list and put it on the free - * list of requested migratetype, possibly along with other pages from the same - * block, depending on fragmentation avoidance heuristics. Returns true if - * fallback was found so that __rmqueue_smallest() can grab it. + * Try finding a free buddy page on the fallback list. + * + * This will attempt to steal a whole pageblock for the requested type + * to ensure grouping of such requests in the future. + * + * If a whole block cannot be stolen, regress to __rmqueue_smallest() + * logic to at least break up as little contiguity as possible. * * The use of signed ints for order and current_order is a deliberate * deviation from the rest of this file, to make the for loop * condition simpler. + * + * Return the stolen page, or NULL if none can be found. */ static __always_inline struct page * __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, int order, int start_migratetype, @@ -2204,45 +2202,35 @@ __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, int order, int start_migratetype, if (fallback_mt == -1) continue; - /* - * We cannot steal all free pages from the pageblock and the - * requested migratetype is movable. In that case it's better to - * steal and split the smallest available page instead of the - * largest available page, because even if the next movable - * allocation falls back into a different pageblock than this - * one, it won't cause permanent fragmentation. - */ - if (!can_steal && start_migratetype == MIGRATE_MOVABLE - && current_order > order) - goto find_smallest; + if (!can_steal) + break; - goto do_steal; + page = get_page_from_free_area(area, fallback_mt); + page = try_to_steal_block(zone, page, current_order, order, + start_migratetype, alloc_flags); + if (page) + goto got_one; } - return NULL; + if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT) + return NULL; -find_smallest: + /* No luck stealing blocks. Find the smallest fallback page */ for (current_order = order; current_order < NR_PAGE_ORDERS; current_order++) { area = &(zone->free_area[current_order]); fallback_mt = find_suitable_fallback(area, current_order, start_migratetype, false, &can_steal); - if (fallback_mt != -1) - break; - } - - /* - * This should not happen - we already found a suitable fallback - * when looking for the largest page. - */ - VM_BUG_ON(current_order > MAX_ORDER); + if (fallback_mt == -1) + continue; -do_steal: - page = get_page_from_free_area(area, fallback_mt); + page = get_page_from_free_area(area, fallback_mt); + page_del_and_expand(zone, page, order, current_order, fallback_mt); + goto got_one; + } - /* take off list, maybe claim block, expand remainder */ - page = steal_suitable_fallback(zone, page, current_order, order, - start_migratetype, alloc_flags, can_steal); + return NULL; +got_one: trace_mm_page_alloc_extfrag(page, order, current_order, start_migratetype, fallback_mt); -- 2.43.0