Callers of migrate_pages() should adjust NR_MIGRATED_{ANON,FILE} for
isolations and putback of the folios. That for migration succeeded folios
is done by migrate_pages(), in migrate_folio_done(). That for MR_DEMOTION
reason is an exception though.
DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} call migrate_pages() but mistakenly not doing the
stat adjustment. As a result, use of DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} could
corrupt the stat. It could confuse too_many_isolated(), make compaction
and reclaim to behave in unexpected ways. The stat corruption can be
reproduced and confirmed using DAMON user-space tool [1] on NUMA systems,
like below.
$ numactl --hardware
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
[...]
$ sudo ./damo start --damos_action migrate_hot 1
$ sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh
$ sudo dmesg
[...]
[ 80.215554] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_anon -5578
[ 80.216842] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_file -34400
This issue was discovered [2] by Sashiko.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260728140404.94476-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/damonitor/damo
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260726164356.87940-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: b51820ebea65 ("mm/damon/paddr: introduce DAMOS_MIGRATE_COLD action for demotion")
Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.11.x
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
while (!list_empty(folio_list)) {
folio = lru_to_folio(folio_list);
list_del(&folio->lru);
+ node_stat_sub_folio(folio, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+ folio_is_file_lru(folio));
folio_putback_lru(folio);
}
struct folio *folio = lru_to_folio(folio_list);
list_del(&folio->lru);
+ node_stat_sub_folio(folio, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+ folio_is_file_lru(folio));
folio_putback_lru(folio);
}
return nr_migrated;
if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio))
goto put_folio;
+ node_stat_add_folio(folio, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+ folio_is_file_lru(folio));
list_add(&folio->lru, &folio_list);
put_folio:
addr += folio_size(folio);
isolate:
if (!folio_isolate_lru(folio))
return;
-
+ node_stat_add_folio(folio, NR_ISOLATED_ANON +
+ folio_is_file_lru(folio));
list_add(&folio->lru, &migration_lists[i]);
}