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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-06-04 14:15:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-06-04 15:21:45 -0700
commitbb21c7ce18eff8e6e7877ca1d06c6db719376e3c (patch)
tree555edaded1e0a771df406ce2b6b63368df6de6cd /mm/vmscan.c
parent9e506f7adce8e6165a104d3d78fddd8ff0cdccf8 (diff)
vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() return value when priority==0 reclaim failure
Greg Thelen reported recent Johannes's stack diet patch makes kernel hang. His test is following. mount -t cgroup none /cgroups -o memory mkdir /cgroups/cg1 echo $$ > /cgroups/cg1/tasks dd bs=1024 count=1024 if=/dev/null of=/data/foo echo $$ > /cgroups/tasks echo 1 > /cgroups/cg1/memory.force_empty Actually, This OOM hard to try logic have been corrupted since following two years old patch. commit a41f24ea9fd6169b147c53c2392e2887cc1d9247 Author: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue Apr 29 00:58:25 2008 -0700 page allocator: smarter retry of costly-order allocations Original intention was "return success if the system have shrinkable zones though priority==0 reclaim was failure". But the above patch changed to "return nr_reclaimed if .....". Oh, That forgot nr_reclaimed may be 0 if priority==0 reclaim failure. And Johannes's patch 0aeb2339e54e ("vmscan: remove all_unreclaimable scan control") made it more corrupt. Originally, priority==0 reclaim failure on memcg return 0, but this patch changed to return 1. It totally confused memcg. This patch fixes it completely. Reported-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c29
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 915dceb487c1..9c7e57cc63a3 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1724,13 +1724,13 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
* If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
* scan then give up on it.
*/
-static int shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
+static bool shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask);
struct zoneref *z;
struct zone *zone;
- int progress = 0;
+ bool all_unreclaimable = true;
for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, high_zoneidx,
sc->nodemask) {
@@ -1757,9 +1757,9 @@ static int shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
}
shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
- progress = 1;
+ all_unreclaimable = false;
}
- return progress;
+ return all_unreclaimable;
}
/*
@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct scan_control *sc)
{
int priority;
- unsigned long ret = 0;
+ bool all_unreclaimable;
unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
unsigned long lru_pages = 0;
@@ -1813,7 +1813,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
sc->nr_scanned = 0;
if (!priority)
disable_swap_token();
- ret = shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
+ all_unreclaimable = shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
/*
* Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from
* over limit cgroups
@@ -1826,10 +1826,8 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
}
}
total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
- if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim) {
- ret = sc->nr_reclaimed;
+ if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim)
goto out;
- }
/*
* Try to write back as many pages as we just scanned. This
@@ -1849,9 +1847,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10);
}
- /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
- if (ret && scanning_global_lru(sc))
- ret = sc->nr_reclaimed;
+
out:
/*
* Now that we've scanned all the zones at this priority level, note
@@ -1877,7 +1873,14 @@ out:
delayacct_freepages_end();
put_mems_allowed();
- return ret;
+ if (sc->nr_reclaimed)
+ return sc->nr_reclaimed;
+
+ /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
+ if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && !all_unreclaimable)
+ return 1;
+
+ return 0;
}
unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,