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Commit afc7e326 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: vmscan: correct use of pgdat_balanced in sleeping_prematurely

There are a few reports of people experiencing hangs when copying large
amounts of data with kswapd using a large amount of CPU which appear to be
due to recent reclaim changes.  SLUB using high orders is the trigger but
not the root cause as SLUB has been using high orders for a while.  The
root cause was bugs introduced into reclaim which are addressed by the
following two patches.

Patch 1 corrects logic introduced by commit 1741c877 ("mm: kswapd:
        keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of
        the node is balanced") to allow kswapd to go to sleep when
        balanced for high orders.

Patch 2 notes that it is possible for kswapd to miss every
        cond_resched() and updates shrink_slab() so it'll at least reach
        that scheduling point.

Chris Wood reports that these two patches in isolation are sufficient to
prevent the system hanging.  AFAIK, they should also resolve similar hangs
experienced by James Bottomley.

This patch:

Johannes Weiner poined out that the logic in commit 1741c877

 ("mm: kswapd:
keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the
node is balanced") is backwards.  Instead of allowing kswapd to go to
sleep when balancing for high order allocations, it keeps it kswapd
running uselessly.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Tested-by: default avatarColin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.38+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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