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author | KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2010-06-04 14:15:05 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-06-04 15:21:45 -0700 |
commit | bb21c7ce18eff8e6e7877ca1d06c6db719376e3c (patch) | |
tree | 555edaded1e0a771df406ce2b6b63368df6de6cd /lib/random32.c | |
parent | 9e506f7adce8e6165a104d3d78fddd8ff0cdccf8 (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>
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