6.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Yuanchu Xie yuanchu@google.com
[ Upstream commit bceeeaed4817ba7ad9013b4116c97220a60fcf7c ]
When non-leaf pmd accessed bits are available, MGLRU page table walks can clear the non-leaf pmd accessed bit and ignore the accessed bit on the pte if it's on a different node, skipping a generation update as well. If another scan occurs on the same node as said skipped pte.
The non-leaf pmd accessed bit might remain cleared and the pte accessed bits won't be checked. While this is sufficient for reclaim-driven aging, where the goal is to select a reasonably cold page, the access can be missed when aging proactively for workingset estimation of a node/memcg.
In more detail, get_pfn_folio returns NULL if the folio's nid != node under scanning, so the page table walk skips processing of said pte. Now the pmd_young flag on this pmd is cleared, and if none of the pte's are accessed before another scan occurs on the folio's node, the pmd_young check fails and the pte accessed bit is skipped.
Since force_scan disables various other optimizations, we check force_scan to ignore the non-leaf pmd accessed bit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240813163759.742675-1-yuanchu@google.com Signed-off-by: Yuanchu Xie yuanchu@google.com Acked-by: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Cc: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@intel.com Cc: Lance Yang ioworker0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Stable-dep-of: ddd6d8e975b1 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: remove MM_LEAF_OLD and MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL stats") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 128f307da6eea..b1f88638c5ab4 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3456,7 +3456,7 @@ static void walk_pmd_range_locked(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, struct vm_area goto next;
if (!pmd_trans_huge(pmd[i])) { - if (should_clear_pmd_young()) + if (!walk->force_scan && should_clear_pmd_young()) pmdp_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pmd + i); goto next; } @@ -3543,7 +3543,7 @@ static void walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
walk->mm_stats[MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL]++;
- if (should_clear_pmd_young()) { + if (!walk->force_scan && should_clear_pmd_young()) { if (!pmd_young(val)) continue;