Re: [PATCH] CMA: Fix CMA's page number is substructed twice in __zone_watermark_ok
From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Wed Jan 07 2015 - 03:45:28 EST
On 12/30/2014 11:17 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
> The original of this patch [1] is used to fix the issue in Joonsoo's CMA patch
> "CMA: always treat free cma pages as non-free on watermark checking" [2].
>
> Joonsoo reminded me that this issue affect current kernel too. So made a new
> one for upstream.
>
> Function __zone_watermark_ok substruct CMA pages number from free_pages
> if system allocation can't use CMA areas:
> /* If allocation can't use CMA areas don't use free CMA pages */
> if (!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_CMA))
> free_cma = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES);
>
> But after this part of code
> for (o = 0; o < order; o++) {
> /* At the next order, this order's pages become unavailable */
> free_pages -= z->free_area[o].nr_free << o;
> CMA memory in each order is part of z->free_area[o].nr_free, then the CMA
> page number of this order is substructed twice. This bug will make
> __zone_watermark_ok return more false.
>
> This patch add cma_free_area to struct free_area that just record the number
> of CMA pages. And add it back in the order loop to handle the substruct
> twice issue.
Le sigh.
I now dub CMA "Contagious Memory Allocator".
One can't even take a Christmas vacation without this blight to spread :(
Seriously, with so much special casing everywhere in fast paths, Minchan's
(IIRC) proposal of a special CMA zone has some appeal.
But it seems to me that the bug you are fixing doesn't exist as you describe it?
free_cma is only used here:
if (free_pages - free_cma <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
return false;
So it's subtracted from free_pages just temporarily for the basic order-0 check.
In the higher-order magic loop, it's not used at all?
Vlastimil
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/25/43
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/110
>
> Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Weixing Liu <liuweixing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +++
> mm/page_alloc.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 2f0856d..094476b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ static inline int get_pfnblock_migratetype(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn)
> struct free_area {
> struct list_head free_list[MIGRATE_TYPES];
> unsigned long nr_free;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
> + unsigned long cma_nr_free;
> +#endif
> };
>
> struct pglist_data;
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 7633c50..026cf27 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -650,6 +650,8 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> } else {
> list_del(&buddy->lru);
> zone->free_area[order].nr_free--;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
> + zone->free_area[order].cma_nr_free--;
> rmv_page_order(buddy);
> }
> combined_idx = buddy_idx & page_idx;
> @@ -683,6 +685,8 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
> list_add(&page->lru, &zone->free_area[order].free_list[migratetype]);
> out:
> zone->free_area[order].nr_free++;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
> + zone->free_area[order].cma_nr_free++;
> }
>
> static inline int free_pages_check(struct page *page)
> @@ -937,6 +941,8 @@ static inline void expand(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
> }
> list_add(&page[size].lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
> area->nr_free++;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
> + area->cma_nr_free++;
> set_page_order(&page[size], high);
> }
> }
> @@ -1020,6 +1026,8 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_smallest(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
> list_del(&page->lru);
> rmv_page_order(page);
> area->nr_free--;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
> + area->cma_nr_free--;
> expand(zone, page, order, current_order, area, migratetype);
> set_freepage_migratetype(page, migratetype);
> return page;
> @@ -1208,6 +1216,8 @@ __rmqueue_fallback(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, int start_migratetype)
> page = list_entry(area->free_list[migratetype].next,
> struct page, lru);
> area->nr_free--;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(migratetype))
> + area->cma_nr_free--;
>
> new_type = try_to_steal_freepages(zone, page,
> start_migratetype,
> @@ -1597,6 +1607,8 @@ int __isolate_free_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> /* Remove page from free list */
> list_del(&page->lru);
> zone->free_area[order].nr_free--;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(mt))
> + zone->free_area[order].cma_nr_free--;
> rmv_page_order(page);
>
> /* Set the pageblock if the isolated page is at least a pageblock */
> @@ -1827,6 +1839,13 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
> /* At the next order, this order's pages become unavailable */
> free_pages -= z->free_area[o].nr_free << o;
>
> + /* If CMA's page number of this order was substructed as part
> + of "zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES)", subtracting
> + "z->free_area[o].nr_free << o" substructed CMA's page
> + number of this order again. So add it back. */
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CMA) && free_cma)
> + free_pages += z->free_area[o].cma_nr_free << o;
> +
> /* Require fewer higher order pages to be free */
> min >>= 1;
>
> @@ -4238,6 +4257,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
> for_each_migratetype_order(order, t) {
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&zone->free_area[order].free_list[t]);
> zone->free_area[order].nr_free = 0;
> + zone->free_area[order].cma_nr_free = 0;
> }
> }
>
> @@ -6610,6 +6630,8 @@ __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
> list_del(&page->lru);
> rmv_page_order(page);
> zone->free_area[order].nr_free--;
> + if (is_migrate_cma(get_pageblock_migratetype(page)))
> + zone->free_area[order].cma_nr_free--;
> for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
> SetPageReserved((page+i));
> pfn += (1 << order);
>
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