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Gregory Price 35e41024c4 vmscan,migrate: fix page count imbalance on node stats when demoting pages
When numa balancing is enabled with demotion, vmscan will call
migrate_pages when shrinking LRUs.  migrate_pages will decrement the
the node's isolated page count, leading to an imbalanced count when
invoked from (MG)LRU code.

The result is dmesg output like such:

$ cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh

[77383.088417] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_anon -103212
[77383.088417] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_file -899642

This negative value may impact compaction and reclaim throttling.

The following path produces the decrement:

shrink_folio_list
  demote_folio_list
    migrate_pages
      migrate_pages_batch
        migrate_folio_move
          migrate_folio_done
            mod_node_page_state(-ve) <- decrement

This path happens for SUCCESSFUL migrations, not failures.  Typically
callers to migrate_pages are required to handle putback/accounting for
failures, but this is already handled in the shrink code.

When accounting for migrations, instead do not decrement the count when
the migration reason is MR_DEMOTION.  As of v6.11, this demotion logic
is the only source of MR_DEMOTION.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241025141724.17927-1-gourry@gourry.net
Fixes: 26aa2d199d ("mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-31 20:27:04 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.