From: Huang Ying ying.huang@intel.com
mainline inclusion from mainline-v6.7-rc1 commit fa8c4f9a665bd0cf5a475327aea4fd179e896216 category: bugfix bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I9OCYO CVE: NA
Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i...
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If there is no memory allocation/freeing in the PCP (Per-CPU Pageset) of a remote zone (zone in remote NUMA node) after some time (3 seconds for now), the pages of the PCP of the remote zone will be drained to avoid memory wastage.
This behavior was introduced in the commit 4ae7c03943fc ("[PATCH] Periodically drain non local pagesets") and the commit 4037d452202e ("Move remote node draining out of slab allocators")
But, after the commit 7cc36bbddde5 ("vmstat: on-demand vmstat workers V8"), the vmstat updater worker which is used to drain the PCP of remote zones may not be re-queued when we are waiting for the timeout (pcp->expire != 0) if there are no vmstat changes on this CPU, for example, when the CPU goes idle or runs user space only workloads. This may cause the pages of a remote zone be kept in PCP of this CPU for long time. So that, the page reclaiming of the remote zone may be triggered prematurely. This isn't a severe problem in practice, because the PCP of the remote zone will be drained if some memory are allocated/freed again on this CPU. And, the PCP will eventually be drained during the direct reclaiming if necessary.
Anyway, the problem still deserves a fix via guaranteeing that the vmstat updater worker will always be re-queued when we are waiting for the timeout. In effect, this restores the original behavior before the commit 7cc36bbddde5.
We can reproduce the bug via allocating/freeing pages from a remote zone then go idle as follows. And the patch can fix it.
- Run some workloads, use `numactl` to bind CPU to node 0 and memory to node 1. So the PCP of the CPU on node 0 for zone on node 1 will be filled.
- After workloads finish, idle for 60s
- Check /proc/zoneinfo
With the original kernel, the number of pages in the PCP of the CPU on node 0 for zone on node 1 is non-zero after idle. With the patched kernel, it becomes 0 after idle. That is, we avoid to keep pages in the remote PCP during idle.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231007062356.187621-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230811090819.60845-1-ying.huang@intel.com Fixes: 7cc36bbddde5 ("vmstat: on-demand vmstat workers V8") Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@intel.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter cl@linux.com Cc: Mel Gorman mgorman@techsingularity.net Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin liushixin2@huawei.com --- mm/vmstat.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 6bed5bcb8208..9a0c40d804e6 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -855,8 +855,10 @@ static int refresh_cpu_vm_stats(bool do_pagesets) continue; }
- if (__this_cpu_dec_return(pcp->expire)) + if (__this_cpu_dec_return(pcp->expire)) { + changes++; continue; + }
if (__this_cpu_read(pcp->count)) { drain_zone_pages(zone, this_cpu_ptr(pcp));