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khugepaged: drain all LRU caches before scanning pages

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Having a page in LRU add cache offsets page refcount and gives
false-negative on PageLRU().  It reduces collapse success rate.

Drain all LRU add caches before scanning.  It happens relatively rare and
should not disturb the system too much.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416160026.16538-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov 2020-06-03 16:00:12 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -2079,6 +2079,8 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(void)
barrier(); /* write khugepaged_pages_to_scan to local stack */
lru_add_drain_all();
while (progress < pages) {
if (!khugepaged_prealloc_page(&hpage, &wait))
break;