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| author | Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net> | 2026-10-19 14:50:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-10-24 01:56:40 -0700 |
| commit | d0a12d80d2f7e9f4ed2030b6f04c8a897956bf84 (patch) | |
| tree | 9bc9bafb99b820e8ef147add2c17e082cfae19f0 /tools/lib/python | |
| parent | 65e722a74df992719676ead85a9e93fb2b5a0983 (diff) | |
mm/vmscan: reclaim every zone in per-node proactive reclaim
user_proactive_reclaim() limits per-node reclaim to
gfp_zone(GFP_KERNEL), which is ZONE_NORMAL. Proactive reclaim serves no
allocation, but that limit makes shrink_node() skip every ZONE_MOVABLE
folio, so writing to /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/reclaim never
reclaims a node's movable memory. A movable-only node, such as dax/kmem
or hotplugged memory onlined movable, reclaims nothing and fails with
-EAGAIN.
To reproduce, fill a movable-only node with clean page cache and write
200M to its nodeN/reclaim: the write fails with -EAGAIN and the page
cache stays. The same write to a ZONE_NORMAL node frees 200MB.
Scan every zone, as memory.reclaim does.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261019185002.3428594-1-gourry@gourry.net
Fixes: b980077899ea ("mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interface")
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Xueyuan Chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vishal Moola (Fractile) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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