[PATCH] mm/compaction: respect cpusets when checking retry suitability

From: fujunjie

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 08:27:55 EST


should_compact_retry() handles COMPACT_SKIPPED by asking
compaction_zonelist_suitable() whether reclaim can make a later
compaction attempt worthwhile. That answer is used for the current
allocation, so it should follow the same zone eligibility rules as the
allocation itself.

When cpusets are enabled, allocator slowpath decisions are marked with
ALLOC_CPUSET. The allocation path, direct compaction and reclaim retry
all skip zones rejected by __cpuset_zone_allowed().

compaction_zonelist_suitable() does not apply that filter. It only walks
ac->zonelist/ac->nodemask, so it can return true because a zone that is
not usable for the current allocation would pass __compaction_suitable().

That does not let the allocation use the disallowed zone. Later
allocation and direct compaction paths still apply cpuset filtering.
However, it can make should_compact_retry() retry based on memory that
this allocation cannot use.

Pass gfp_mask down and apply the same ALLOC_CPUSET check in
compaction_zonelist_suitable(). This keeps the retry decision aligned
with the zones that the allocation is allowed to use.

A temporary debugfs probe was also used to call the old and new
compaction_zonelist_suitable() predicates in the same two-node NUMA guest.
The task was restricted to mems=0 while ac->nodemask covered nodes 0-1.
After putting pressure on node0, node0 failed __compaction_suitable() for
order-10 and node1 passed it, but node1 was rejected by
__cpuset_zone_allowed(). In that state the old predicate returned true and
the patched predicate returned false.

Signed-off-by: fujunjie <fujunjie1@xxxxxx>
---
include/linux/compaction.h | 2 +-
mm/compaction.c | 6 +++++-
mm/page_alloc.c | 15 +++++++++------
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compaction.h b/include/linux/compaction.h
index 173d9c07a895..c829c48d1c71 100644
--- a/include/linux/compaction.h
+++ b/include/linux/compaction.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ extern void compaction_defer_reset(struct zone *zone, int order,
bool alloc_success);

bool compaction_zonelist_suitable(struct alloc_context *ac, int order,
- int alloc_flags);
+ int alloc_flags, gfp_t gfp_mask);

extern void __meminit kcompactd_run(int nid);
extern void __meminit kcompactd_stop(int nid);
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 3648ce22c807..2295b2487dfc 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -2447,7 +2447,7 @@ bool compaction_suitable(struct zone *zone, int order, unsigned long watermark,

/* Used by direct reclaimers */
bool compaction_zonelist_suitable(struct alloc_context *ac, int order,
- int alloc_flags)
+ int alloc_flags, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct zone *zone;
struct zoneref *z;
@@ -2460,6 +2460,10 @@ bool compaction_zonelist_suitable(struct alloc_context *ac, int order,
ac->highest_zoneidx, ac->nodemask) {
unsigned long available;

+ if (cpusets_enabled() && (alloc_flags & ALLOC_CPUSET) &&
+ !__cpuset_zone_allowed(zone, gfp_mask))
+ continue;
+
/*
* Do not consider all the reclaimable memory because we do not
* want to trash just for a single high order allocation which
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ddeb79fa12db..93d56ba339fb 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4199,7 +4199,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
}

static inline bool
-should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
+should_compact_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct alloc_context *ac, int order,
+ int alloc_flags,
enum compact_result compact_result,
enum compact_priority *compact_priority,
int *compaction_retries)
@@ -4221,7 +4222,8 @@ should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
* migration targets. Continue if reclaim can help.
*/
if (compact_result == COMPACT_SKIPPED) {
- ret = compaction_zonelist_suitable(ac, order, alloc_flags);
+ ret = compaction_zonelist_suitable(ac, order, alloc_flags,
+ gfp_mask);
goto out;
}

@@ -4274,7 +4276,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
}

static inline bool
-should_compact_retry(struct alloc_context *ac, int order, int alloc_flags,
+should_compact_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct alloc_context *ac, int order,
+ int alloc_flags,
enum compact_result compact_result,
enum compact_priority *compact_priority,
int *compaction_retries)
@@ -4892,9 +4895,9 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
* of free memory (see __compaction_suitable)
*/
if (did_some_progress > 0 && can_compact &&
- should_compact_retry(ac, order, alloc_flags,
- compact_result, &compact_priority,
- &compaction_retries))
+ should_compact_retry(gfp_mask, ac, order, alloc_flags,
+ compact_result, &compact_priority,
+ &compaction_retries))
goto retry;

/* Reclaim/compaction failed to prevent the fallback */

base-commit: e8c2f9fdadee7cbc75134dc463c1e0d856d6e5c7
--
2.34.1