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| author | Hugh Dickins | 2021-05-04 18:37:57 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2021-05-05 11:27:25 -0700 |
| commit | 75083aae114c2738af28eef2fb0c2515e818885a (patch) | |
| tree | 49859a936068728836ba313c40b8f2ef53a1bf16 /mm/vmstat.c | |
| parent | 6d99a4c029c01cd7d075f7f9fa3b8b620e49a9f7 (diff) | |
mm: /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh skip checking known negative stats
vmstat_refresh() can occasionally catch nr_zone_write_pending and
nr_writeback when they are transiently negative. The reason is partly
that the interrupt which decrements them in test_clear_page_writeback()
can come in before __test_set_page_writeback() got to increment them;
but transient negatives are still seen even when that is prevented, and
I am not yet certain why (but see Roman's note below). Those stats are
not buggy, they have never been seen to drift away from 0 permanently:
so just avoid the annoyance of showing a warning on them.
Similarly avoid showing a warning on nr_free_cma: CMA users have seen
that one reported negative from /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh too, but it
does drift away permanently: I believe that's because its incrementation
and decrementation are decided by page migratetype, but the migratetype
of a pageblock is not guaranteed to be constant.
Roman Gushchin points out:
"For performance reasons, vmstat counters are incremented and
decremented using per-cpu batches. vmstat_refresh() flushes the
per-cpu batches on all CPUs, to get values as accurate as possible;
but this method is not atomic, so the resulting value is not always
precise.
As a consequence, for those counters whose actual value is close to 0,
a small negative value may occasionally be reported. If the value is
small and the state is transient, it is not an indication of an error"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200714173747.3315771-1-guro@fb.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2103012158540.7549@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 1fb91d5a2b60..5437a7861089 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1858,6 +1858,14 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write, if (err) return err; for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) { + /* + * Skip checking stats known to go negative occasionally. + */ + switch (i) { + case NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING: + case NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES: + continue; + } val = atomic_long_read(&vm_zone_stat[i]); if (val < 0) { pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n", @@ -1874,6 +1882,13 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *table, int write, } #endif for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) { + /* + * Skip checking stats known to go negative occasionally. + */ + switch (i) { + case NR_WRITEBACK: + continue; + } val = atomic_long_read(&vm_node_stat[i]); if (val < 0) { pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n", |