Re: [PATCH] mm: deduct the number of pages reclaimed by madvise from workingset

[Suren Baghdasaryan]

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 2:13 AM zhaoyang.huang
<zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The pages reclaimed by madvise_pageout are made of inactive and dropped from LRU
> forcefully, which lead to the coming up refault pages possess a large refault
> distance than it should be. These could affect the accuracy of thrashing when
> madvise_pageout is used as a common way of memory reclaiming as ANDROID does now.

Doesn't workingset_eviction() in the following call chain already
handle nonresident page aging?:

reclaim_pages
  reclaim_folio_list
    shrink_folio_list
      __remove_mapping
        workingset_eviction
          workingset_age_nonresident


>
> Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/swap.h | 2 +-
>  mm/madvise.c         | 4 ++--
>  mm/vmscan.c          | 8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
> index 2787b84..0312142 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
>  extern int vm_swappiness;
>  long remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct folio *folio);
>
> -extern unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *page_list);
> +extern unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, struct list_head *page_list);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>  extern int node_reclaim_mode;
>  extern int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio;
> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> index b6ea204..61c8d7b 100644
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
>  huge_unlock:
>                 spin_unlock(ptl);
>                 if (pageout)
> -                       reclaim_pages(&page_list);
> +                       reclaim_pages(mm, &page_list);
>                 return 0;
>         }
>
> @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static int madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
>         arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
>         pte_unmap_unlock(orig_pte, ptl);
>         if (pageout)
> -               reclaim_pages(&page_list);
> +               reclaim_pages(mm, &page_list);
>         cond_resched();
>
>         return 0;
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 20facec..048c10b 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2741,12 +2741,14 @@ static unsigned int reclaim_folio_list(struct list_head *folio_list,
>         return nr_reclaimed;
>  }
>
> -unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list)
> +unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, struct list_head *folio_list)

You would also need to change Damon usage of reclaim_pages() here:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.4-rc1/source/mm/damon/paddr.c#L253

>  {
>         int nid;
>         unsigned int nr_reclaimed = 0;
>         LIST_HEAD(node_folio_list);
>         unsigned int noreclaim_flag;
> +       struct lruvec *lruvec;
> +       struct mem_cgroup *memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(mm);
>
>         if (list_empty(folio_list))
>                 return nr_reclaimed;
> @@ -2764,10 +2766,14 @@ unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *folio_list)
>                 }
>
>                 nr_reclaimed += reclaim_folio_list(&node_folio_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
> +               lruvec = &memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->lruvec;
> +               workingset_age_nonresident(lruvec, -nr_reclaimed);
>                 nid = folio_nid(lru_to_folio(folio_list));
>         } while (!list_empty(folio_list));
>
>         nr_reclaimed += reclaim_folio_list(&node_folio_list, NODE_DATA(nid));
> +       lruvec = &memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->lruvec;
> +       workingset_age_nonresident(lruvec, -nr_reclaimed);
>
>         memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>