[PATCH v2] mm: vmscan: reclaim anon pages if there are swapcache pages

From: Liu Shixin
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 21:54:32 EST


When spaces of swap devices are exhausted, only file pages can be reclaimed.
But there are still some swapcache pages in anon lru list. This can lead
to a premature out-of-memory.

This problem can be fixed by checking number of swapcache pages in
can_reclaim_anon_pages(). For memcg v2, there are swapcache stat that can
be used directly. For memcg v1, use total_swapcache_pages() instead, which
may not accurate but can solve the problem.

Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 6 ++++++
mm/memcontrol.c | 8 ++++++++
mm/vmscan.c | 12 ++++++++----
3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 456546443f1f..0318e918bfa4 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t entry, unsigned int nr_p
}

extern long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
+extern long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
extern bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio);
#else
static inline void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t entry)
@@ -691,6 +692,11 @@ static inline long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return get_nr_swap_pages();
}

+static inline long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+ return total_swapcache_pages();
+}
+
static inline bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio)
{
return vm_swap_full();
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e8ca4bdcb03c..3e578f41023e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -7567,6 +7567,14 @@ long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return nr_swap_pages;
}

+long mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || do_memsw_account())
+ return total_swapcache_pages();
+
+ return memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_SWAPCACHE);
+}
+
bool mem_cgroup_swap_full(struct folio *folio)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7c33c5b653ef..bcb6279cbae7 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -609,13 +609,17 @@ static inline bool can_reclaim_anon_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
if (memcg == NULL) {
/*
* For non-memcg reclaim, is there
- * space in any swap device?
+ * space in any swap device or swapcache pages?
*/
- if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
+ if (get_nr_swap_pages() + total_swapcache_pages() > 0)
return true;
} else {
- /* Is the memcg below its swap limit? */
- if (mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) > 0)
+ /*
+ * Is the memcg below its swap limit or is there swapcache
+ * pages can be freed?
+ */
+ if (mem_cgroup_get_nr_swap_pages(memcg) +
+ mem_cgroup_get_nr_swapcache_pages(memcg) > 0)
return true;
}

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2.25.1