Proactive reclaim (triggered via memory.reclaim or node sysfs) checks for pending signals in its outer loop in user_proactive_reclaim(). However, the inner reclaim loops—specifically scanning cgroups in shrink_many() and evicting/aging folios in try_to_shrink_lruvec()—can run for a long time before returning to the outer loop, especially on systems with many cgroups or large memory sizes. During system suspend, the PM freezer attempts to freeze all the tasks by sending signals. Because the inner loops do not check for pending signals, the proactive reclaim task can remain stuck in kernel space for seconds, failing to enter the refrigerator in a timely manner. This leads to suspend failures due to freeze timeouts, a behavior observed on Android devices. This latency issue is specific to proactive reclaim because of its large, user-defined reclaim targets (could be gigabytes). Since commit 287d5fedb377 ("mm: memcg: use larger batches for proactive reclaim"), proactive reclaim uses larger decaying batch sizes (starting at 1/4 of the remaining target) to maintain throughput. This keeps the task in the reclaim loop with a large target for a single syscall invocation. In contrast, reactive reclaim (global/memcg) has small targets (SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, typically 32 pages), allowing to yield or check signals between attempts quickly. To fix this, add a signal_pending() check to should_abort_scan() for proactive reclaim paths. Since should_abort_scan() is called within the inner scanning and eviction loops, this allows proactive reclaim to abort early and return to the outer loop, ensuring the task can enter the refrigerator and allow suspend to proceed. The check is limited to proactive reclaim (sc->proactive) to avoid affecting reactive reclaim paths, and wrapped in unlikely() as it is a slow path. Signed-off-by: Richard Chang --- v2: Update the commit message mm/vmscan.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 35c3bb15ae96..fb472e924fc7 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -4929,6 +4929,9 @@ static bool should_abort_scan(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc) int i; enum zone_watermarks mark; + if (unlikely(sc->proactive && signal_pending(current))) + return true; + if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= max(sc->nr_to_reclaim, compact_gap(sc->order))) return true; -- 2.55.0.795.g602f6c329a-goog