From b02863ec8349b63da414078ee50c0654b7d5e1d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:24:44 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: avoid marking zones full prematurely after zone_reclaim() The following problem was reported against a distribution kernel when zone_reclaim was enabled but the same problem applies to the mainline kernel. The reproduction case was as follows 1. Run numactl -m +0 dd if=largefile of=/dev/null This allocates a large number of clean pages in node 0 2. numactl -N +0 memhog 0.5*Mg This start a memory-using application in node 0. The expected behaviour is that the clean pages get reclaimed and the application uses node 0 for its memory. The observed behaviour was that the memory for the memhog application was allocated off-node since commits cd38b11 ("mm: page allocator: initialise ZLC for first zone eligible for zone_reclaim") and commit 76d3fbf ("mm: page allocator: reconsider zones for allocation after direct reclaim"). The assumption of those patches was that it was always preferable to allocate quickly than stall for long periods of time and they were meant to take care that the zone was only marked full when necessary but an important case was missed. In the allocator fast path, only the low watermarks are checked. If the zones free pages are between the low and min watermark then allocations from the allocators slow path will succeed. However, zone_reclaim will only reclaim SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX or 1< Reported-by: Hedi Berriche Tested-by: Hedi Berriche Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/page_alloc.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 7350986bbf99..3070132876e3 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1942,9 +1942,24 @@ zonelist_scan: continue; default: /* did we reclaim enough */ - if (!zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, + if (zone_watermark_ok(zone, order, mark, classzone_idx, alloc_flags)) + goto try_this_zone; + + /* + * Failed to reclaim enough to meet watermark. + * Only mark the zone full if checking the min + * watermark or if we failed to reclaim just + * 1<