Re: [PATCH] vmscan,migrate: fix double-decrement on node stats when demoting pages

[Oscar Salvador]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 10:17:24AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote:
> When numa balancing is enabled with demotion, vmscan will call
> migrate_pages when shrinking LRUs.  Successful demotions will
> cause node vmstat numbers to double-decrement, leading to an
> imbalanced page count.  The result is dmesg output like such:
> 
> $ cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh
> 
> [77383.088417] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_anon -103212
> [77383.088417] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_file -899642
> 
> This negative value may impact compaction and reclaim throttling.
> 
> The double-decrement occurs in the migrate_pages path:
> 
> caller to shrink_folio_list decrements the count
>   shrink_folio_list
>     demote_folio_list
>       migrate_pages
>         migrate_pages_batch
>           migrate_folio_move
>             migrate_folio_done
>               mod_node_page_state(-ve) <- second decrement
> 
> This path happens for SUCCESSFUL migrations, not failures. Typically
> callers to migrate_pages are required to handle putback/accounting for
> failures, but this is already handled in the shrink code.
> 
> When accounting for migrations, instead do not decrement the count
> when the migration reason is MR_DEMOTION. As of v6.11, this demotion
> logic is the only source of MR_DEMOTION.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 26aa2d199d6f2 ("mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>


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Oscar Salvador
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