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Seiji Nishikawa 66cd37660e mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim()
commit 6aaced5abd32e2a57cd94fd64f824514d0361da8 upstream.

The task sometimes continues looping in throttle_direct_reclaim() because
allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) keeps returning false.

 #0 [ffff80002cb6f8d0] __switch_to at ffff8000080095ac
 #1 [ffff80002cb6f900] __schedule at ffff800008abbd1c
 #2 [ffff80002cb6f990] schedule at ffff800008abc50c
 #3 [ffff80002cb6f9b0] throttle_direct_reclaim at ffff800008273550
 #4 [ffff80002cb6fa20] try_to_free_pages at ffff800008277b68
 #5 [ffff80002cb6fae0] __alloc_pages_nodemask at ffff8000082c4660
 #6 [ffff80002cb6fc50] alloc_pages_vma at ffff8000082e4a98
 #7 [ffff80002cb6fca0] do_anonymous_page at ffff80000829f5a8
 #8 [ffff80002cb6fce0] __handle_mm_fault at ffff8000082a5974
 #9 [ffff80002cb6fd90] handle_mm_fault at ffff8000082a5bd4

At this point, the pgdat contains the following two zones:

        NODE: 4  ZONE: 0  ADDR: ffff00817fffe540  NAME: "DMA32"
          SIZE: 20480  MIN/LOW/HIGH: 11/28/45
          VM_STAT:
                NR_FREE_PAGES: 359
        NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON: 18813
          NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON: 0
        NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE: 50
          NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE: 0
          NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE: 0
        NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: 0
                     NR_MLOCK: 0
                    NR_BOUNCE: 0
                   NR_ZSPAGES: 0
            NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: 0

        NODE: 4  ZONE: 1  ADDR: ffff00817fffec00  NAME: "Normal"
          SIZE: 8454144  PRESENT: 98304  MIN/LOW/HIGH: 68/166/264
          VM_STAT:
                NR_FREE_PAGES: 146
        NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_ANON: 94668
          NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_ANON: 3
        NR_ZONE_INACTIVE_FILE: 735
          NR_ZONE_ACTIVE_FILE: 78
          NR_ZONE_UNEVICTABLE: 0
        NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: 0
                     NR_MLOCK: 0
                    NR_BOUNCE: 0
                   NR_ZSPAGES: 0
            NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: 0

In allow_direct_reclaim(), while processing ZONE_DMA32, the sum of
inactive/active file-backed pages calculated in zone_reclaimable_pages()
based on the result of zone_page_state_snapshot() is zero.

Additionally, since this system lacks swap, the calculation of inactive/
active anonymous pages is skipped.

        crash> p nr_swap_pages
        nr_swap_pages = $1937 = {
          counter = 0
        }

As a result, ZONE_DMA32 is deemed unreclaimable and skipped, moving on to
the processing of the next zone, ZONE_NORMAL, despite ZONE_DMA32 having
free pages significantly exceeding the high watermark.

The problem is that the pgdat->kswapd_failures hasn't been incremented.

        crash> px ((struct pglist_data *) 0xffff00817fffe540)->kswapd_failures
        $1935 = 0x0

This is because the node deemed balanced.  The node balancing logic in
balance_pgdat() evaluates all zones collectively.  If one or more zones
(e.g., ZONE_DMA32) have enough free pages to meet their watermarks, the
entire node is deemed balanced.  This causes balance_pgdat() to exit early
before incrementing the kswapd_failures, as it considers the overall
memory state acceptable, even though some zones (like ZONE_NORMAL) remain
under significant pressure.


The patch ensures that zone_reclaimable_pages() includes free pages
(NR_FREE_PAGES) in its calculation when no other reclaimable pages are
available (e.g., file-backed or anonymous pages).  This change prevents
zones like ZONE_DMA32, which have sufficient free pages, from being
mistakenly deemed unreclaimable.  By doing so, the patch ensures proper
node balancing, avoids masking pressure on other zones like ZONE_NORMAL,
and prevents infinite loops in throttle_direct_reclaim() caused by
allow_direct_reclaim(pgdat) repeatedly returning false.


The kernel hangs due to a task stuck in throttle_direct_reclaim(), caused
by a node being incorrectly deemed balanced despite pressure in certain
zones, such as ZONE_NORMAL.  This issue arises from
zone_reclaimable_pages() returning 0 for zones without reclaimable file-
backed or anonymous pages, causing zones like ZONE_DMA32 with sufficient
free pages to be skipped.

The lack of swap or reclaimable pages results in ZONE_DMA32 being ignored
during reclaim, masking pressure in other zones.  Consequently,
pgdat->kswapd_failures remains 0 in balance_pgdat(), preventing fallback
mechanisms in allow_direct_reclaim() from being triggered, leading to an
infinite loop in throttle_direct_reclaim().

This patch modifies zone_reclaimable_pages() to account for free pages
(NR_FREE_PAGES) when no other reclaimable pages exist.  This ensures zones
with sufficient free pages are not skipped, enabling proper balancing and
reclaim behavior.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241130164346.436469-1-snishika@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241130161236.433747-2-snishika@redhat.com
Fixes: 5a1c84b404 ("mm: remove reclaim and compaction retry approximations")
Signed-off-by: Seiji Nishikawa <snishika@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-01-09 13:23:37 +01:00
..
kasan
backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
cleancache.c
cma.c
cma.h
cma_debug.c
compaction.c mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations 2024-04-13 12:51:34 +02:00
debug.c
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup.c
gup_benchmark.c
highmem.c
hmm.c
huge_memory.c
hugetlb.c
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
interval_tree.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memblock.c
memcontrol.c memcg_write_event_control(): fix a user-triggerable oops 2024-09-04 13:14:50 +02:00
memfd.c
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure: fix an incorrect use of tail pages 2024-04-13 12:51:31 +02:00
memory.c mm: avoid leaving partial pfn mappings around in error case 2024-11-17 14:58:53 +01:00
memory_hotplug.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
memremap.c
memtest.c memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning 2024-04-13 12:51:27 +02:00
migrate.c mm/migrate: set swap entry values of THP tail pages properly. 2024-04-13 12:51:31 +02:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_gather.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page-writeback.c mm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic 2024-08-19 05:33:42 +02:00
page_alloc.c mm, vmscan: prevent infinite loop for costly GFP_NOIO | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL allocations 2024-04-13 12:51:34 +02:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page_owner.c
page_poison.c
page_vma_mapped.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-internal.h
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
rodata_test.c
shmem.c mm: revert "mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()" 2024-12-14 19:44:19 +01:00
shuffle.c
shuffle.h
slab.c
slab.h
slab_common.c mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc 2024-11-08 16:20:54 +01:00
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap.c
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c
swap_state.c
swapfile.c mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma 2024-11-08 16:20:47 +01:00
truncate.c
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: fix mmap_changing checking in mfill_atomic_hugetlb 2024-03-01 13:13:33 +01:00
util.c mm: only enforce minimum stack gap size if it's sensible 2024-11-08 16:20:35 +01:00
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: account for free pages to prevent infinite Loop in throttle_direct_reclaim() 2025-01-09 13:23:37 +01:00
vmstat.c
workingset.c
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c