mm: activate !PageLRU pages on mark_page_accessed if page is on local pagevec
If a page is on a pagevec then it is !PageLRU and mark_page_accessed() may
fail to move a page to the active list as expected. Now that the LRU is
selected at LRU drain time, mark pages PageActive if they are on the local
pagevec so it gets moved to the correct list at LRU drain time. Using a
debugging patch it was found that for a simple git checkout based workload
that pages were never added to the active file list in practice but with
this patch applied they are.
before after
LRU Add Active File 0 750583
LRU Add Active Anon
2640587 2702818
LRU Add Inactive File
8833662 8068353
LRU Add Inactive Anon 207 200
Note that only pages on the local pagevec are considered on purpose. A
!PageLRU page could be in the process of being released, reclaimed,
migrated or on a remote pagevec that is currently being drained. Marking
it PageActive is vunerable to races where PageLRU and Active bits are
checked at the wrong time. Page reclaim will trigger VM_BUG_ONs but
depending on when the race hits, it could also free a PageActive page to
the page allocator and trigger a bad_page warning. Similarly a potential
race exists between a per-cpu drain on a pagevec list and an activation on
a remote CPU.
lru_add_drain_cpu
__pagevec_lru_add
lru = page_lru(page);
mark_page_accessed
if (PageLRU(page))
activate_page
else
SetPageActive
SetPageLRU(page);
add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
In this case a PageActive page is added to the inactivate list and later
the inactive/active stats will get skewed. While the PageActive checks in
vmscan could be removed and potentially dealt with, a skew in the
statistics would be very difficult to detect. Hence this patch deals just
with the common case where a page being marked accessed has just been
added to the local pagevec.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>