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