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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2012-07-11 14:02:13 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-07-16 08:47:52 -0700
commitc58c52e0f44d2883ddc31ac021b88a121b332982 (patch)
tree4dc37c3c29857aa7585bb2e50ca19b4c1860519a /mm
parent08ccc046aa38dca8214b8a1dcef2c711d8b94f2f (diff)
mm, thp: abort compaction if migration page cannot be charged to memcg
commit 4bf2bba3750f10aa9e62e6949bc7e8329990f01b upstream. If page migration cannot charge the temporary page to the memcg, migrate_pages() will return -ENOMEM. This isn't considered in memory compaction however, and the loop continues to iterate over all pageblocks trying to isolate and migrate pages. If a small number of very large memcgs happen to be oom, however, these attempts will mostly be futile leading to an enormous amout of cpu consumption due to the page migration failures. This patch will short circuit and fail memory compaction if migrate_pages() returns -ENOMEM. COMPACT_PARTIAL is returned in case some migrations were successful so that the page allocator will retry. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index c4bc5acf865..adc5336ad84 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -596,8 +596,11 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
if (err) {
putback_lru_pages(&cc->migratepages);
cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
+ if (err == -ENOMEM) {
+ ret = COMPACT_PARTIAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
}
-
}
out: