From: Greg KH <[email protected]> 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> commit 7335084d446b83cbcb15da80497d03f0c1dc9e21 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch makes later patches easier to apply but otherwise has little to justify it. The problem it fixes was never observed but the source of the theoretical problem did not exist for very long. During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so that compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If this decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible that 0 is returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an OOM. This has not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch addresses it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Isaacson <[email protected]> Cc: Nai Xia <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- mm/vmscan.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2240,6 +2240,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; unsigned long writeback_threshold; + bool should_abort_reclaim; get_mems_allowed(); delayacct_freepages_start(); @@ -2251,7 +2252,8 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page sc->nr_scanned = 0; if (!priority) disable_swap_token(sc->mem_cgroup); - if (shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc)) + should_abort_reclaim = shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc); + if (should_abort_reclaim) break; /* @@ -2318,6 +2320,10 @@ out: if (oom_killer_disabled) return 0; + /* Aborting reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */ + if (should_abort_reclaim) + return 1; + /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */ if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc)) return 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
