Commit a980df33 authored by Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar Kirill A. Shutemov Committed by Linus Torvalds

khugepaged: drain all LRU caches before scanning pages

Having a page in LRU add cache offsets page refcount and gives
false-negative on PageLRU().  It reduces collapse success rate.

Drain all LRU add caches before scanning.  It happens relatively rare and
should not disturb the system too much.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWilliam Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416160026.16538-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ffe945e6
......@@ -2079,6 +2079,8 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(void)
barrier(); /* write khugepaged_pages_to_scan to local stack */
lru_add_drain_all();
while (progress < pages) {
if (!khugepaged_prealloc_page(&hpage, &wait))
break;
......
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