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From 93147736b5b3a21bea24313bfc7a696829932009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:19:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 27/29] mm: multi-gen LRU: clarify scan_control flags

Among the flags in scan_control:
1. sc->may_swap, which indicates swap constraint due to memsw.max, is
   supported as usual.
2. sc->proactive, which indicates reclaim by memory.reclaim, may not
   opportunistically skip the aging path, since it is considered less
   latency sensitive.
3. !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO), which indicates IO constraint, lowers
   swappiness to prioritize file LRU, since clean file pages are more
   likely to exist.
4. sc->may_writepage and sc->may_unmap, which indicates opportunistic
   reclaim, are rejected, since unmapped clean pages are already
   prioritized. Scanning for more of them is likely futile and can
   cause high reclaim latency when there is a large number of memcgs.

The rest are handled by the existing code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222041905.2431096-8-yuzhao@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michael Larabel <Michael@MichaelLarabel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2905,6 +2905,9 @@ static int get_swappiness(struct lruvec
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
 
+	if (!sc->may_swap)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (!can_demote(pgdat->node_id, sc) &&
 	    mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) < MIN_LRU_BATCH)
 		return 0;
@@ -3952,7 +3955,7 @@ static void walk_mm(struct lruvec *lruve
 	} while (err == -EAGAIN);
 }
 
-static struct lru_gen_mm_walk *set_mm_walk(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
+static struct lru_gen_mm_walk *set_mm_walk(struct pglist_data *pgdat, bool force_alloc)
 {
 	struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk = current->reclaim_state->mm_walk;
 
@@ -3960,7 +3963,7 @@ static struct lru_gen_mm_walk *set_mm_wa
 		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(walk);
 
 		walk = &pgdat->mm_walk;
-	} else if (!pgdat && !walk) {
+	} else if (!walk && force_alloc) {
 		VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(current_is_kswapd());
 
 		walk = kzalloc(sizeof(*walk), __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
@@ -4146,7 +4149,7 @@ static bool try_to_inc_max_seq(struct lr
 		goto done;
 	}
 
-	walk = set_mm_walk(NULL);
+	walk = set_mm_walk(NULL, true);
 	if (!walk) {
 		success = iterate_mm_list_nowalk(lruvec, max_seq);
 		goto done;
@@ -4215,8 +4218,6 @@ static bool lruvec_is_reclaimable(struct
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
 	DEFINE_MIN_SEQ(lruvec);
 
-	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(sc->memcg_low_reclaim);
-
 	/* see the comment on lru_gen_page */
 	gen = lru_gen_from_seq(min_seq[LRU_GEN_FILE]);
 	birth = READ_ONCE(lruvec->lrugen.timestamps[gen]);
@@ -4472,12 +4473,8 @@ static bool isolate_page(struct lruvec *
 {
 	bool success;
 
-	/* unmapping inhibited */
-	if (!sc->may_unmap && page_mapped(page))
-		return false;
-
 	/* swapping inhibited */
-	if (!(sc->may_writepage && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) &&
+	if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO) &&
 	    (PageDirty(page) ||
 	     (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page))))
 		return false;
@@ -4574,9 +4571,8 @@ static int scan_pages(struct lruvec *lru
 	__count_vm_events(PGSCAN_ANON + type, isolated);
 
 	/*
-	 * There might not be eligible pages due to reclaim_idx, may_unmap and
-	 * may_writepage. Check the remaining to prevent livelock if it's not
-	 * making progress.
+	 * There might not be eligible pages due to reclaim_idx. Check the
+	 * remaining to prevent livelock if it's not making progress.
 	 */
 	return isolated || !remaining ? scanned : 0;
 }
@@ -4836,8 +4832,7 @@ static long get_nr_to_scan(struct lruvec
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
 	DEFINE_MAX_SEQ(lruvec);
 
-	if (mem_cgroup_below_min(memcg) ||
-	    (mem_cgroup_below_low(memcg) && !sc->memcg_low_reclaim))
+	if (mem_cgroup_below_min(memcg))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!should_run_aging(lruvec, max_seq, sc, can_swap, &nr_to_scan))
@@ -4865,17 +4860,14 @@ static bool try_to_shrink_lruvec(struct
 	long nr_to_scan;
 	unsigned long scanned = 0;
 	unsigned long nr_to_reclaim = get_nr_to_reclaim(sc);
+	int swappiness = get_swappiness(lruvec, sc);
+
+	/* clean file pages are more likely to exist */
+	if (swappiness && !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
+		swappiness = 1;
 
 	while (true) {
 		int delta;
-		int swappiness;
-
-		if (sc->may_swap)
-			swappiness = get_swappiness(lruvec, sc);
-		else if (!cgroup_reclaim(sc) && get_swappiness(lruvec, sc))
-			swappiness = 1;
-		else
-			swappiness = 0;
 
 		nr_to_scan = get_nr_to_scan(lruvec, sc, swappiness);
 		if (nr_to_scan <= 0)
@@ -5005,12 +4997,13 @@ static void lru_gen_shrink_lruvec(struct
 	struct blk_plug plug;
 
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(global_reclaim(sc));
+	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!sc->may_writepage || !sc->may_unmap);
 
 	lru_add_drain();
 
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 
-	set_mm_walk(lruvec_pgdat(lruvec));
+	set_mm_walk(NULL, false);
 
 	if (try_to_shrink_lruvec(lruvec, sc))
 		lru_gen_rotate_memcg(lruvec, MEMCG_LRU_YOUNG);
@@ -5066,11 +5059,19 @@ static void lru_gen_shrink_node(struct p
 
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!global_reclaim(sc));
 
+	/*
+	 * Unmapped clean pages are already prioritized. Scanning for more of
+	 * them is likely futile and can cause high reclaim latency when there
+	 * is a large number of memcgs.
+	 */
+	if (!sc->may_writepage || !sc->may_unmap)
+		goto done;
+
 	lru_add_drain();
 
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 
-	set_mm_walk(pgdat);
+	set_mm_walk(pgdat, false);
 
 	set_initial_priority(pgdat, sc);
 
@@ -5088,7 +5089,7 @@ static void lru_gen_shrink_node(struct p
 	clear_mm_walk();
 
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
-
+done:
 	/* kswapd should never fail */
 	pgdat->kswapd_failures = 0;
 }
@@ -5656,7 +5657,7 @@ static ssize_t lru_gen_seq_write(struct
 	set_task_reclaim_state(current, &sc.reclaim_state);
 	flags = memalloc_noreclaim_save();
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
-	if (!set_mm_walk(NULL)) {
+	if (!set_mm_walk(NULL, true)) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto done;
 	}