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 occurrs 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 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 occurrs 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.
Signed-off-by: Yuanchu Xie yuanchu@google.com --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 4f9c854ce6cc..1a7c7d537db6 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3522,7 +3522,7 @@ static void walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
walk->mm_stats[MM_NONLEAF_TOTAL]++;
- if (should_clear_pmd_young()) { + if (!walk->force_scan && should_clear_pmd_young()) { if (!pmd_young(val)) continue;