Re: [PATCH] mm/compaction: count pages and stop correctly during page isolation.

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 10/29/20 9:04 PM, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> 
> In isolate_migratepages_block, when cc->alloc_contig is true, we are
> able to isolate compound pages, nr_migratepages and nr_isolated did not
> count compound pages correctly, causing us to isolate more pages than we
> thought. Use thp_nr_pages to count pages. Otherwise, we might be trapped
> in too_many_isolated while loop, since the actual isolated pages can go
> up to COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX*512=16384, where COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX is 32,
> since we stop isolation after cc->nr_migratepages reaches to
> COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX.

I wonder if a better fix would be to adjust the too_many_isolated() check so 
that if we have non-zero cc->nr_migratepages, we bail out from further isolation 
and migrate what we have immediately, instead of looping.

Because I can also imagine a hypothetical situation where multiple threads in 
parallel cause too_many_isolated() to be true, and will all loop there forever. 
The proposed fix should prevent such situation as well, AFAICT.

> In addition, after we fix the issue above, cc->nr_migratepages could
> never be equal to COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX if compound pages are isolated,
> thus page isolation could not stop as we intended. Change the isolation
> stop condition to >=.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> ---
>   mm/compaction.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
> index ee1f8439369e..0683a4999581 100644
> --- a/mm/compaction.c
> +++ b/mm/compaction.c
> @@ -1012,8 +1012,8 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>   
>   isolate_success:
>   		list_add(&page->lru, &cc->migratepages);
> -		cc->nr_migratepages++;
> -		nr_isolated++;
> +		cc->nr_migratepages += thp_nr_pages(page);
> +		nr_isolated += thp_nr_pages(page);
>   
>   		/*
>   		 * Avoid isolating too much unless this block is being
> @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long low_pfn,
>   		 * or a lock is contended. For contention, isolate quickly to
>   		 * potentially remove one source of contention.
>   		 */
> -		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX &&
> +		if (cc->nr_migratepages >= COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX &&
>   		    !cc->rescan && !cc->contended) {
>   			++low_pfn;
>   			break;
> @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn,
>   		if (!pfn)
>   			break;
>   
> -		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
> +		if (cc->nr_migratepages >= COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
>   			break;
>   	}
>   
>