commit 669281ee7ef731fb5204df9d948669bf32a5e68d upstream.
MGLRU has a LRU list for each zone for each type (anon/file) in each
generation:
long nr_pages[MAX_NR_GENS][ANON_AND_FILE][MAX_NR_ZONES];
The min_seq (oldest generation) can progress independently for each
type but the max_seq (youngest generation) is shared for both anon and
file. This is to maintain a common frame of reference.
In order for eviction to advance the min_seq of a type, all the per-zone
lists in the oldest generation of that type must be empty.
The eviction logic only considers pages from eligible zones for
eviction or promotion.
scan_folios() {
...
for (zone = sc->reclaim_idx; zone >= 0; zone--) {
...
sort_folio(); // Promote
...
isolate_folio(); // Evict
}
...
}
Consider the system has the movable zone configured and default 4
generations. The current state of the system is as shown below
(only illustrating one type for simplicity):
Type: ANON
Zone DMA32 Normal Movable Device
Gen 0 0 0 4GB 0
Gen 1 0 1GB 1MB 0
Gen 2 1MB 4GB 1MB 0
Gen 3 1MB 1MB 1MB 0
Now consider there is a GFP_KERNEL allocation request (eligible zone
index <= Normal), evict_folios() will return without doing any work
since there are no pages to scan in the eligible zones of the oldest
generation. Reclaim won't make progress until triggered from a ZONE_MOVABLE
allocation request; which may not happen soon if there is a lot of free
memory in the movable zone. This can lead to OOM kills, although there
is 1GB pages in the Normal zone of Gen 1 that we have not yet tried to
reclaim.
This issue is not seen in the conventional active/inactive LRU since
there are no per-zone lists.
If there are no (not enough) folios to scan in the eligible zones, move
folios from ineligible zone (zone_index > reclaim_index) to the next
generation. This allows for the progression of min_seq and reclaiming
from the next generation (Gen 1).
Qualcomm, Mediatek and raspberrypi [1] discovered this issue independently.
[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/5395
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802025606.346758-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Fixes: ac35a49023 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reported-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Reported-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Tested-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com> [mediatek]
Tested-by: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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