[PATCH V2] mm: compaction: update the COMPACT[STALL|FAIL] events properly

From: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com, vbabka@suse.cz,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: vinmenon@codeaurora.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2] mm: compaction: update the COMPACT[STALL|FAIL] events properly
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 23:03:04 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1613151184-21213-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org> (raw)

By definition, COMPACT[STALL|FAIL] events needs to be counted when there
is 'At least in one zone compaction wasn't deferred or skipped from the
direct compaction'. And when compaction is skipped or deferred,
COMPACT_SKIPPED will be returned but it will still go and update these
compaction events which is wrong in the sense that COMPACT[STALL|FAIL]
is counted without even trying the compaction.

Correct this by skipping the counting of these events when
COMPACT_SKIPPED is returned for compaction. This indirectly also avoid
the unnecessary try into the get_page_from_freelist() when compaction is
not even tried.

There is a corner case where compaction is skipped but still count
COMPACTSTALL event, which is that IRQ came and freed the page and the
same is captured in capture_control.

Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
---

changes in V1: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1373665/

 mm/compaction.c | 8 ++++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 190ccda..104ebef 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -2487,6 +2487,14 @@ static enum compact_result compact_zone_order(struct zone *zone, int order,
 	 */
 	WRITE_ONCE(current->capture_control, NULL);
 	*capture = READ_ONCE(capc.page);
+	/*
+	 * Technically, it is also possible that compaction is skipped but
+	 * the page is still captured out of luck(IRQ came and freed the page).
+	 * Returning COMPACT_SUCCESS in such cases helps in properly accounting
+	 * the COMPACT[STALL|FAIL] when compaction is skipped.
+	 */
+	if (*capture)
+		ret = COMPACT_SUCCESS;
 
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 519a60d..531f244 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4152,6 +4152,8 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_compact(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	memalloc_noreclaim_restore(noreclaim_flag);
 	psi_memstall_leave(&pflags);
 
+	if (*compact_result == COMPACT_SKIPPED)
+		return NULL;
 	/*
 	 * At least in one zone compaction wasn't deferred or skipped, so let's
 	 * count a compaction stall
-- 
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