Re: [PATCH] mm: compaction: Abort compaction if too many pages areisolated and caller is asynchronous

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Fri Jun 03 2011 - 13:37:49 EST


On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:01:44AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Do you want this? (it's almost pseudo-code)

Yes that's good idea so we at least take into account if we isolated
something big, and it's pointless to insist wasting CPU on the tail
pages and even trace a fail because of tail pages after it.

I introduced a __page_count to increase readability. It's still
hackish to work on subpages in vmscan.c but at least I added a comment
and until we serialize destroy_compound_page vs compound_head, I guess
there's no better way. I didn't attempt to add out of order
serialization similar to what exists for split_huge_page vs
compound_trans_head yet, as the page can be allocated or go away from
under us, in split_huge_page vs compound_trans_head it's simpler
because both callers are required to hold a pin on the page so the
page can't go be reallocated and destroyed under it.

===
Subject: mm: no page_count without a page pin

From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>

It's unsafe to run page_count during the physical pfn scan because
compound_head could trip on a dangling pointer when reading page->first_page if
the compound page is being freed by another CPU. Also properly take into
account if we isolated a compound page during the scan and break the loop if
we've isolated enoguh. Introduce __page_count to cleanup some atomic_read from
&page->_count in common code to cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c | 2 -
arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc512x_shared.c | 2 -
arch/x86/mm/gup.c | 2 -
fs/nilfs2/page.c | 2 -
include/linux/mm.h | 13 +++++++---
mm/huge_memory.c | 4 +--
mm/internal.h | 2 -
mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++--
mm/swap.c | 4 +--
mm/vmscan.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
10 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1047,7 +1047,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u
for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++) {
struct page *page;
unsigned long pfn;
- unsigned long end_pfn;
+ unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
unsigned long page_pfn;
int zone_id;

@@ -1087,9 +1087,9 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u
*/
zone_id = page_zone_id(page);
page_pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
- pfn = page_pfn & ~((1 << order) - 1);
+ start_pfn = page_pfn & ~((1 << order) - 1);
end_pfn = pfn + (1 << order);
- for (; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
+ for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
struct page *cursor_page;

/* The target page is in the block, ignore it. */
@@ -1116,16 +1116,33 @@ static unsigned long isolate_lru_pages(u
break;

if (__isolate_lru_page(cursor_page, mode, file) == 0) {
+ unsigned int isolated_pages;
list_move(&cursor_page->lru, dst);
mem_cgroup_del_lru(cursor_page);
- nr_taken += hpage_nr_pages(page);
- nr_lumpy_taken++;
+ isolated_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
+ nr_taken += isolated_pages;
+ nr_lumpy_taken += isolated_pages;
if (PageDirty(cursor_page))
- nr_lumpy_dirty++;
+ nr_lumpy_dirty += isolated_pages;
scan++;
+ pfn += isolated_pages-1;
+ VM_BUG_ON(!isolated_pages);
+ VM_BUG_ON(isolated_pages > MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
} else {
- /* the page is freed already. */
- if (!page_count(cursor_page))
+ /*
+ * Check if the page is freed already.
+ *
+ * We can't use page_count() as that
+ * requires compound_head and we don't
+ * have a pin on the page here. If a
+ * page is tail, we may or may not
+ * have isolated the head, so assume
+ * it's not free, it'd be tricky to
+ * track the head status without a
+ * page pin.
+ */
+ if (!PageTail(cursor_page) &&
+ !__page_count(&cursor_page))
continue;
break;
}
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ struct inode;
*/
static inline int put_page_testzero(struct page *page)
{
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) == 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page) == 0);
return atomic_dec_and_test(&page->_count);
}

@@ -355,9 +355,14 @@ static inline struct page *compound_head
return page;
}

+static inline int __page_count(struct page *page)
+{
+ return atomic_read(&page->_count);
+}
+
static inline int page_count(struct page *page)
{
- return atomic_read(&compound_head(page)->_count);
+ return __page_count(compound_head(page));
}

static inline void get_page(struct page *page)
@@ -370,7 +375,7 @@ static inline void get_page(struct page
* bugcheck only verifies that the page->_count isn't
* negative.
*/
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) < !PageTail(page));
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page) < !PageTail(page));
atomic_inc(&page->_count);
/*
* Getting a tail page will elevate both the head and tail
@@ -382,7 +387,7 @@ static inline void get_page(struct page
* __split_huge_page_refcount can't run under
* get_page().
*/
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->first_page->_count) <= 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page->first_page) <= 0);
atomic_inc(&page->first_page->_count);
}
}
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1203,10 +1203,10 @@ static void __split_huge_page_refcount(s
struct page *page_tail = page + i;

/* tail_page->_count cannot change */
- atomic_sub(atomic_read(&page_tail->_count), &page->_count);
+ atomic_sub(__page_count(page_tail), &page->_count);
BUG_ON(page_count(page) <= 0);
atomic_add(page_mapcount(page) + 1, &page_tail->_count);
- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page_tail->_count) <= 0);
+ BUG_ON(__page_count(page_tail) <= 0);

/* after clearing PageTail the gup refcount can be released */
smp_mb();
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static inline void get_huge_page_tail(st
* __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run
* from under us.
*/
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) < 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page) < 0);
atomic_inc(&page->_count);
}

--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc512x_shared.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/512x/mpc512x_shared.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static inline void mpc512x_free_bootmem(
{
__ClearPageReserved(page);
BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) > 1);
+ BUG_ON(__page_count(page) > 1);
atomic_set(&page->_count, 1);
__free_page(page);
totalram_pages++;
--- a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static inline void get_huge_page_tail(st
* __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run
* from under us.
*/
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) < 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page) < 0);
atomic_inc(&page->_count);
}

--- a/fs/nilfs2/page.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ void nilfs_page_bug(struct page *page)

printk(KERN_CRIT "NILFS_PAGE_BUG(%p): cnt=%d index#=%llu flags=0x%lx "
"mapping=%p ino=%lu\n",
- page, atomic_read(&page->_count),
+ page, __page_count(page),
(unsigned long long)page->index, page->flags, m, ino);

if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static inline void set_page_count(struct
static inline void set_page_refcounted(struct page *page)
{
VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page));
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count));
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page));
set_page_count(page, 1);
}

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static inline int free_pages_check(struc
{
if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) |
(page->mapping != NULL) |
- (atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) |
+ (__page_count(page) != 0) |
(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE) |
(mem_cgroup_bad_page_check(page)))) {
bad_page(page);
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ static inline int check_new_page(struct
{
if (unlikely(page_mapcount(page) |
(page->mapping != NULL) |
- (atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0) |
+ (__page_count(page) != 0) |
(page->flags & PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP) |
(mem_cgroup_bad_page_check(page)))) {
bad_page(page);
@@ -5739,7 +5739,7 @@ void dump_page(struct page *page)
{
printk(KERN_ALERT
"page:%p count:%d mapcount:%d mapping:%p index:%#lx\n",
- page, atomic_read(&page->_count), page_mapcount(page),
+ page, __page_count(page), page_mapcount(page),
page->mapping, page->index);
dump_page_flags(page->flags);
mem_cgroup_print_bad_page(page);
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ static void put_compound_page(struct pag
if (put_page_testzero(page_head))
VM_BUG_ON(1);
/* __split_huge_page_refcount will wait now */
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) <= 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page) <= 0);
atomic_dec(&page->_count);
- VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page_head->_count) <= 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON(__page_count(page_head) <= 0);
compound_unlock_irqrestore(page_head, flags);
if (put_page_testzero(page_head)) {
if (PageHead(page_head))
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