Commit 9282012
page_alloc: fix invalid watermark check on a negative value
There was a report that a task is waiting at the
throttle_direct_reclaim. The pgscan_direct_throttle in vmstat was
increasing.
This is a bug where zone_watermark_fast returns true even when the free
is very low. The commit f27ce0e ("page_alloc: consider highatomic
reserve in watermark fast") changed the watermark fast to consider
highatomic reserve. But it did not handle a negative value case which
can be happened when reserved_highatomic pageblock is bigger than the
actual free.
If watermark is considered as ok for the negative value, allocating
contexts for order-0 will consume all free pages without direct reclaim,
and finally free page may become depleted except highatomic free.
Then allocating contexts may fall into throttle_direct_reclaim. This
symptom may easily happen in a system where wmark min is low and other
reclaimers like kswapd does not make free pages quickly.
Handle the negative case by using MIN.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220725095212.25388-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com
Fixes: f27ce0e ("page_alloc: consider highatomic reserve in watermark fast")
Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Reported-by: GyeongHwan Hong <gh21.hong@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kerenl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>1 parent 1f7ea54 commit 9282012
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