linux/mm
Shaohua Li 4746efded8 vmscan: fix a livelock in kswapd
I'm running a workload which triggers a lot of swap in a machine with 4
nodes.  After I kill the workload, I found a kswapd livelock.  Sometimes
kswapd3 or kswapd2 are keeping running and I can't access filesystem,
but most memory is free.

This looks like a regression since commit 08951e5459 ("mm: vmscan:
correct check for kswapd sleeping in sleeping_prematurely").

Node 2 and 3 have only ZONE_NORMAL, but balance_pgdat() will return 0
for classzone_idx.  The reason is end_zone in balance_pgdat() is 0 by
default, if all zones have watermark ok, end_zone will keep 0.

Later sleeping_prematurely() always returns true.  Because this is an
order 3 wakeup, and if classzone_idx is 0, both balanced_pages and
present_pages in pgdat_balanced() are 0.  We add a special case here.
If a zone has no page, we think it's balanced.  This fixes the livelock.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-19 22:09:31 -07:00
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backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c
fremap.c
highmem.c
huge_memory.c
hugetlb.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memblock.c
memcontrol.c memcg: fix numa scan information update to be triggered by memory event 2011-07-08 21:14:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c
memory-failure.c
memory.c mm: __tlb_remove_page() check the correct batch 2011-07-08 21:14:43 -07:00
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c mm/nommu.c: fix remap_pfn_range() 2011-07-08 21:14:44 -07:00
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c
page_cgroup.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c vmscan: fix a livelock in kswapd 2011-07-19 22:09:31 -07:00
vmstat.c