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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 78 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index e25bca89c3c1..2837e7e3677c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1598,40 +1598,42 @@ retry: stat->nr_congested += nr_pages; /* - * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there + * If a folio at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there * are three cases to consider. * - * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages - * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and - * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued - * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the - * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an - * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the - * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead - * note that the LRU is being scanned too quickly and the - * caller can stall after page list has been processed. + * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of folios + * under writeback and this folio is both under + * writeback and has the reclaim flag set then it + * indicates that folios are being queued for I/O but + * are being recycled through the LRU before the I/O + * can complete. Waiting on the folio itself risks an + * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback + * the folio due to I/O error or disconnected storage + * so instead note that the LRU is being scanned too + * quickly and the caller can stall after the folio + * list has been processed. * - * 2) Global or new memcg reclaim encounters a page that is + * 2) Global or new memcg reclaim encounters a folio that is * not marked for immediate reclaim, or the caller does not * have __GFP_FS (or __GFP_IO if it's simply going to swap, - * not to fs). In this case mark the page for immediate + * not to fs). In this case mark the folio for immediate * reclaim and continue scanning. * * Require may_enter_fs() because we would wait on fs, which - * may not have submitted IO yet. And the loop driver might - * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for + * may not have submitted I/O yet. And the loop driver might + * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a folio for * which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off * __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought * would probably show more reasons. * - * 3) Legacy memcg encounters a page that is already marked - * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages + * 3) Legacy memcg encounters a folio that already has the + * reclaim flag set. memcg does not have any dirty folio * throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many - * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to + * folios are in writeback and there is nothing else to * reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete. * - * In cases 1) and 2) we activate the pages to get them out of - * the way while we continue scanning for clean pages on the + * In cases 1) and 2) we activate the folios to get them out of + * the way while we continue scanning for clean folios on the * inactive list and refilling from the active list. The * observation here is that waiting for disk writes is more * expensive than potentially causing reloads down the line. @@ -1639,38 +1641,42 @@ retry: * memory pressure on the cache working set any longer than it * takes to write them to disk. */ - if (PageWriteback(page)) { + if (folio_test_writeback(folio)) { /* Case 1 above */ if (current_is_kswapd() && - PageReclaim(page) && + folio_test_reclaim(folio) && test_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags)) { stat->nr_immediate += nr_pages; goto activate_locked; /* Case 2 above */ } else if (writeback_throttling_sane(sc) || - !PageReclaim(page) || !may_enter_fs(page, sc->gfp_mask)) { + !folio_test_reclaim(folio) || + !may_enter_fs(page, sc->gfp_mask)) { /* - * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback() - * might have just cleared PageReclaim, then - * setting PageReclaim here end up interpreted - * as PageReadahead - but that does not matter - * enough to care. What we do want is for this - * page to have PageReclaim set next time memcg - * reclaim reaches the tests above, so it will - * then wait_on_page_writeback() to avoid OOM; - * and it's also appropriate in global reclaim. + * This is slightly racy - + * folio_end_writeback() might have just + * cleared the reclaim flag, then setting + * reclaim here ends up interpreted as + * the readahead flag - but that does + * not matter enough to care. What we + * do want is for this folio to have + * the reclaim flag set next time memcg + * reclaim reaches the tests above, so + * it will then folio_wait_writeback() + * to avoid OOM; and it's also appropriate + * in global reclaim. */ - SetPageReclaim(page); + folio_set_reclaim(folio); stat->nr_writeback += nr_pages; goto activate_locked; /* Case 3 above */ } else { - unlock_page(page); - wait_on_page_writeback(page); - /* then go back and try same page again */ - list_add_tail(&page->lru, page_list); + folio_unlock(folio); + folio_wait_writeback(folio); + /* then go back and try same folio again */ + list_add_tail(&folio->lru, page_list); continue; } } |