Hugh Dickins reported the following
My tmpfs swapping load (tweaked to use huge pages more heavily
than in real life) is far from being a realistic load: but it was
notably slowed down by your throttling mods in 5.16-rc, and this
patch makes it well again - thanks.
But: it very quickly hit NULL pointer until I changed that last
line to
if (first_pgdat)
consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc);
The likely issue is that huge pages are a major component of the test
workload. When this is the case, first_pgdat may never get set if
compaction is ready to continue due to this check
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) &&
sc->order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER &&
compaction_ready(zone, sc)) {
sc->compaction_ready = true;
continue;
}
If this was true for every zone in the zonelist, first_pgdat would never
get set resulting in a NULL pointer exception.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211209095453.GM3366@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 1b4e3f26f9f75 ("mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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