Re: [PATCH 20/27] mm, vmscan: Update classzone_idx if buffer_heads_over_limit
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-06-22 14:49:20
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On Tue 21-06-16 15:15:59, Mel Gorman wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
If buffer heads are over the limit then the direct reclaim gfp_mask is promoted to __GFP_HIGHMEM so that lowmem is indirectly freed. With node-based reclaim, it is also required that the classzone_idx be updated or the pages will be skipped. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <redacted> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted> --- mm/vmscan.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 1f7c1262c0a3..f4c759b3581b 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c@@ -2571,8 +2571,10 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc, * highmem pages could be pinning lowmem pages storing buffer_heads */ orig_mask = sc->gfp_mask; - if (buffer_heads_over_limit) + if (buffer_heads_over_limit) { sc->gfp_mask |= __GFP_HIGHMEM; + classzone_idx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask); + } for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
The code that follows that however does update classzone_idx
/*
* Note that reclaim_idx does not change as it is the highest
* zone reclaimed from which for empty zones is a no-op but
* classzone_idx is used by shrink_node to test if the slabs
* should be shrunk on a given node.
*/
while (!populated_zone(zone->zone_pgdat->node_zones +
classzone_idx)) {
classzone_idx--;
}
so if we start with a zone which doesn't have the highmem zone we will
not see highmems of other zone AFAIU. I guess this would be unlikely
because highmem systems will be UMA in most cases but the code looks a
bit confusing.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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