mm: multi-gen LRU: ignore non-leaf pmd_young for force_scan=true

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2099996

[ 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>
Signed-off-by: Koichiro Den <koichiro.den@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
This commit is contained in:
Yuanchu Xie
2025-02-25 22:59:22 +09:00
committed by Stefan Bader
parent 5f606e928a
commit 1e09e214f2
+2 -2
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@@ -3429,7 +3429,7 @@ 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;
}
@@ -3516,7 +3516,7 @@ restart:
walk->mm_stats[MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL]++;
if (should_clear_pmd_young()) {
if (!walk->force_scan && should_clear_pmd_young()) {
if (!pmd_young(val))
continue;