| Message ID | 20211209095453.GM3366@techsingularity.net (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | mm: vmscan: reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress -fix | expand |
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 4c4d5f6cd8a3..700434db5735 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3530,7 +3530,8 @@ static void shrink_zones(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc) shrink_node(zone->zone_pgdat, sc); } - consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc); + if (first_pgdat) + consider_reclaim_throttle(first_pgdat, sc); /* * Restore to original mask to avoid the impact on the caller if we
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. This is a fix to the mmotm patch mm-vmscan-reduce-throttling-due-to-a-failure-to-make-progress.patch Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> --- mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)