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Kirill A. Shutemov 807174a93d mm: fix endless reclaim on machines with unaccepted memory
Unaccepted memory is considered unusable free memory, which is not counted
as free on the zone watermark check.  This causes get_page_from_freelist()
to accept more memory to hit the high watermark, but it creates problems
in the reclaim path.

The reclaim path encounters a failed zone watermark check and attempts to
reclaim memory.  This is usually successful, but if there is little or no
reclaimable memory, it can result in endless reclaim with little to no
progress.  This can occur early in the boot process, just after start of
the init process when the only reclaimable memory is the page cache of the
init executable and its libraries.

Make unaccepted memory free from watermark check point of view.  This way
unaccepted memory will never be the trigger of memory reclaim.  Accept
more memory in the get_page_from_freelist() if needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809114854.3745464-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Fixes: dcdfdd40fa ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Jianxiong Gao <jxgao@google.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jianxiong Gao <jxgao@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[6.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-08-15 22:16:15 -07:00
arch A set of x86 fixes: 2024-08-11 10:20:29 -07:00
block blk-throttle: remove more latency dead-code 2024-07-27 10:33:25 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - generate power-of-2 lengths more often 2024-07-13 11:50:28 +12:00
Documentation USB fixes for 6.11-rc3 2024-08-11 09:55:32 -07:00
drivers Three small fixes for interrupt core and drivers: 2024-08-11 10:07:52 -07:00
fs nfsd-6.11 fixes: 2024-08-10 10:44:21 -07:00
include mm: don't account memmap per-node 2024-08-15 22:16:14 -07:00
init rust: SHADOW_CALL_STACK is incompatible with Rust 2024-08-01 16:15:03 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/net: don't pick multiple buffers for non-bundle send 2024-08-07 15:20:52 -06:00
ipc sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers 2024-07-24 20:59:29 +02:00
kernel Updates for time keeping: 2024-08-11 10:15:34 -07:00
lib minmax: don't use max() in situations that want a C constant expression 2024-07-28 20:23:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: fix endless reclaim on machines with unaccepted memory 2024-08-15 22:16:15 -07:00
net nfsd-6.11 fixes: 2024-08-10 10:44:21 -07:00
rust rust: firmware: fix invalid rustdoc link 2024-07-31 13:24:29 +02:00
samples Driver core changes for 6.11-rc1 2024-07-25 10:42:22 -07:00
scripts syscalls: add back legacy __NR_nfsservctl macro 2024-08-06 08:57:02 +02:00
security apparmor-pr-2024-07-24 PR 2024-07-25 2024-07-27 13:28:39 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.11 2024-08-09 09:58:07 +02:00
tools selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix off by one in check_compaction() 2024-08-15 22:16:15 -07:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt KVM: guest_memfd: abstract how prepared folios are recorded 2024-07-26 14:46:15 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package 2024-07-22 01:24:22 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update entry for David Heidelberg 2024-08-07 18:33:56 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS tracing: Update of MAINTAINERS and CREDITS file 2024-07-18 14:08:42 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 6.11-rc3 2024-08-09 09:25:30 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.11-rc3 2024-08-11 14:27:14 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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.