kernel/linux.git/include/trace/events/vmscan.h, branch v7.1

mm: vmscan: add PIDs to vmscan tracepoints

2026-04-05T20:53:04+00:00

The changes aims at adding additionnal tracepoints variables to help debuggers attribute them to specific processes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260316160908.42727-4-tballasi@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Ballasi Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yuanchu Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: vmscan: add cgroup IDs to vmscan tracepoints

2026-04-05T20:53:04+00:00

Memory reclaim events are currently difficult to attribute to specific cgroups, making debugging memory pressure issues challenging. This patch adds memory cgroup ID (memcg_id) to key vmscan tracepoints to enable better correlation and analysis. For operations not associated with a specific cgroup, the field is defaulted to 0. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260316160908.42727-3-tballasi@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Ballasi Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yuanchu Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset

2026-01-31T22:22:38+00:00

Currently, kswapd_failures is reset in multiple places (kswapd, direct reclaim, PCP freeing, memory-tiers), but there's no way to trace when and why it was reset, making it difficult to debug memory reclaim issues. This patch: 1. Introduce kswapd_clear_hopeless() as a wrapper function to centralize kswapd_failures reset logic. 2. Introduce kswapd_test_hopeless() to encapsulate hopeless node checks, replacing all open-coded kswapd_failures comparisons. 3. Add kswapd_clear_hopeless_reason enum to distinguish reset sources: - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_KSWAPD: reset from kswapd context - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_DIRECT: reset from direct reclaim - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_PCP: reset from PCP page freeing - KSWAPD_CLEAR_HOPELESS_OTHER: reset from other paths 4. Add tracepoints for better observability: - mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: traces each reset with reason - mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: traces each kswapd reclaim failure Test results: $ trace-cmd record -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless -e vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail $ # generate memory pressure $ trace-cmd report cpus=4 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.216563: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.217169: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.217764: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.218353: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.218993: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.219744: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.220488: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.221206: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.221806: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.222634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.223286: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.223894: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.224712: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.225424: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.226082: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.226810: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.386869: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=1 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.387435: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=2 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.388016: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=3 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.388586: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=4 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.389155: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=5 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.389723: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=6 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.390292: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=7 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.392364: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=8 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.392934: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=9 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.393504: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=10 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.394073: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=11 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.394899: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=12 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.395472: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=13 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.396055: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=14 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.396628: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=15 kswapd1-72 [002] 27.397199: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=1 failures=16 kworker/u18:0-40 [002] 27.410151: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=DIRECT kswapd0-71 [000] 27.439454: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=1 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.440048: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=2 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.440634: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=3 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.441211: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=4 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.441787: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=5 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.442363: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=6 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.443030: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=7 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.443725: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=8 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.444315: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=9 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.444898: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=10 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.445476: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=11 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.446053: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=12 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.446646: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=13 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.447230: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=14 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.447812: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=15 kswapd0-71 [000] 27.448391: mm_vmscan_kswapd_reclaim_fail: nid=0 failures=16 ann-423 [003] 28.028285: mm_vmscan_kswapd_clear_hopeless: nid=0 reason=PCP Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260120024402.387576-3-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) [tracing] Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Brendan Jackman Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yuanchu Xie Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

vmscan: add a vmscan event for reclaim_pages

2024-11-07T04:11:13+00:00

reclaim_folio_list uses a dummy reclaim_stat and is not being used. To know the memory stat, add a new trace event. This is useful how how many pages are not reclaimed or why. This is an example: mm_vmscan_reclaim_pages: nid=0 nr_scanned=112 nr_reclaimed=112 nr_dirty=0 nr_writeback=0 nr_congested=0 nr_immediate=0 nr_activate_anon=0 nr_activate_file=0 nr_ref_keep=0 nr_unmap_fail=0 Currently reclaim_folio_list is only called by reclaim_pages, and reclaim_pages is used by damon and madvise. In the latest Android, reclaim_pages is also used by shmem to reclaim all pages in a address_space. [jaewon31.kim@samsung.com: use sc.nr_scanned rather than new counting] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241016143227.961162-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241011124928.1224813-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jaewon Kim Cc: Kalesh Singh Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm, vmscan: remove ISOLATE_UNMAPPED

2023-10-04T17:32:29+00:00

This isolate_mode_t flag is effectively unused since 89f6c88a6ab4 ("mm: __isolate_lru_page_prepare() in isolate_migratepages_block()") as sc->may_unmap is now checked directly (and only node_reclaim has a mode that sets it to 0). The last remaining place is mm_vmscan_lru_isolate tracepoint for the isolate_mode parameter. That one was mainly used to indicate the active/inactive mode, which the trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl script consumed, but that got silently broken. After fixing the script by the previous patch, it does not need the isolate_mode anymore. So just remove the parameter and with that the whole ISOLATE_UNMAPPED flag. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230914131637.12204-4-vbabka@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate

2022-05-19T21:08:55+00:00

Fixes following sparse warnings: CHECK mm/vmscan.c mm/vmscan.c: note: in included file (through include/trace/trace_events.h, include/trace/define_trace.h, include/trace/events/vmscan.h): ./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning: cast to restricted isolate_mode_t ./include/trace/events/vmscan.h:281:1: sparse: warning: restricted isolate_mode_t degrades to integer Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e85d7ff2-fd10-53f8-c24e-ba0458439c1b@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion

2022-05-13T14:20:18+00:00

Fixes the following sparse warnings: include/trace/events/*: sparse: cast to restricted gfp_t include/trace/events/*: sparse: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer gfp_t type is bitwise and requires __force attributes for any casts. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/331d88fe-f4f7-657c-02a2-d977f15fbff6@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio

2022-03-21T17:01:35+00:00

We always write out an entire folio at once. This conversion removes a few calls to compound_head() and gets the NR_VMSCAN_WRITE statistic right when writing out a large folio. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

mm: vmscan: Reduce throttling due to a failure to make progress

2021-12-31T19:17:07+00:00

Mike Galbraith, Alexey Avramov and Darrick Wong all reported similar problems due to reclaim throttling for excessive lengths of time. In Alexey's case, a memory hog that should go OOM quickly stalls for several minutes before stalling. In Mike and Darrick's cases, a small memcg environment stalled excessively even though the system had enough memory overall. Commit 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made") introduced the problem although commit a19594ca4a8b ("mm/vmscan: increase the timeout if page reclaim is not making progress") made it worse. Systems at or near an OOM state that cannot be recovered must reach OOM quickly and memcg should kill tasks if a memcg is near OOM. To address this, only stall for the first zone in the zonelist, reduce the timeout to 1 tick for VMSCAN_THROTTLE_NOPROGRESS and only stall if the scan control nr_reclaimed is 0, kswapd is still active and there were excessive pages pending for writeback. If kswapd has stopped reclaiming due to excessive failures, do not stall at all so that OOM triggers relatively quickly. Similarly, if an LRU is simply congested, only lightly throttle similar to NOPROGRESS. Alexey's original case was the most straight forward for i in {1..3}; do tail /dev/zero; done On vanilla 5.16-rc1, this test stalled heavily, after the patch the test completes in a few seconds similar to 5.15. Alexey's second test case added watching a youtube video while tail runs 10 times. On 5.15, playback only jitters slightly, 5.16-rc1 stalls a lot with lots of frames missing and numerous audio glitches. With this patch applies, the video plays similarly to 5.15. [lkp@intel.com: Fix W=1 build warning] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/99e779783d6c7fce96448a3402061b9dc1b3b602.camel@gmx.de Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211202150614.22440-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/regzbot/regression/20211124011954.7cab9bb4@mail.inbox.lv/ Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Avramov Reported-and-tested-by: Mike Galbraith Reported-and-tested-by: Darrick J. Wong Reported-by: kernel test robot Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Tracked-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Fixes: 69392a403f49 ("mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/vmscan: throttle reclaim when no progress is being made

2021-11-06T20:30:40+00:00

Memcg reclaim throttles on congestion if no reclaim progress is made. This makes little sense, it might be due to writeback or a host of other factors. For !memcg reclaim, it's messy. Direct reclaim primarily is throttled in the page allocator if it is failing to make progress. Kswapd throttles if too many pages are under writeback and marked for immediate reclaim. This patch explicitly throttles if reclaim is failing to make progress. [vbabka@suse.cz: Remove redundant code] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022144651.19914-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: NeilBrown Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds