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page_alloc: fix invalid watermark check on a negative value 

There was a report that a task is waiting at the
throttle_direct_reclaim. The pgscan_direct_throttle in vmstat was
increasing.

This is a bug where zone_watermark_fast returns true even when the free
is very low. The commit f27ce0e140 ("page_alloc: consider highatomic
reserve in watermark fast") changed the watermark fast to consider
highatomic reserve. But it did not handle a negative value case which
can be happened when reserved_highatomic pageblock is bigger than the
actual free.

If watermark is considered as ok for the negative value, allocating
contexts for order-0 will consume all free pages without direct reclaim,
and finally free page may become depleted except highatomic free.

Then allocating contexts may fall into throttle_direct_reclaim. This
symptom may easily happen in a system where wmark min is low and other
reclaimers like kswapd does not make free pages quickly.

Handle the negative case by using MIN.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220725095212.25388-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com
Fixes: f27ce0e140 ("page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast")
Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Reported-by: GyeongHwan Hong <gh21.hong@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kerenl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Jaewon Kim 2022-07-25 18:52:12 +09:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 1f7ea54727
commit 9282012fc0
1 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -3968,11 +3968,15 @@ static inline bool zone_watermark_fast(struct zone *z, unsigned int order,
* need to be calculated.
*/
if (!order) {
long fast_free;
long usable_free;
long reserved;
fast_free = free_pages;
fast_free -= __zone_watermark_unusable_free(z, 0, alloc_flags);
if (fast_free > mark + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx])
usable_free = free_pages;
reserved = __zone_watermark_unusable_free(z, 0, alloc_flags);
/* reserved may over estimate high-atomic reserves. */
usable_free -= min(usable_free, reserved);
if (usable_free > mark + z->lowmem_reserve[highest_zoneidx])
return true;
}