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Commit c56b097a authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: list_lru: fix almost infinite loop causing effective livelock

I've seen a fair number of issues with kswapd and other processes
appearing to get stuck in v3.12-rc.  Using sysrq-p many times seems to
indicate that it gets stuck somewhere in list_lru_walk_node(), called
from prune_icache_sb() and super_cache_scan().

I never seem to be able to trigger a calltrace for functions above that
point.

So I decided to add the following to super_cache_scan():

    @@ -81,10 +81,14 @@ static unsigned long super_cache_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
            inodes = list_lru_count_node(&sb->s_inode_lru, sc->nid);
            dentries = list_lru_count_node(&sb->s_dentry_lru, sc->nid);
            total_objects = dentries + inodes + fs_objects + 1;
    +printk("%s:%u: %s: dentries %lu inodes %lu total %lu\n", current->comm, current->pid, __func__, dentries, inodes, total_objects);

            /* proportion the scan between the caches */
            dentries = mult_frac(sc->nr_to_scan, dentries, total_objects);
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