This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: vmscan: evaluate the watermarks against the correct
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-vmscan-evaluate-the-watermarks-against-the-correct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
From da175d06b437093f93109ba9e5efbe44dfdf9409 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:39:39 -0700
Subject: mm: vmscan: evaluate the watermarks against the correct
classzone
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From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
commit da175d06b437093f93109ba9e5efbe44dfdf9409 upstream.
When deciding if kswapd is sleeping prematurely, the classzone is taken
into account but this is different to what balance_pgdat() and the
allocator are doing. Specifically, the DMA zone will be checked based on
the classzone used when waking kswapd which could be for a GFP_KERNEL or
GFP_HIGHMEM request. The lowmem reserve limit kicks in, the watermark is
not met and kswapd thinks it's sleeping prematurely keeping kswapd awake in
error.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Andrew Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[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 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2279,7 +2279,7 @@ static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data
}
if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone),
- classzone_idx, 0))
+ i, 0))
all_zones_ok = false;
else
balanced += zone->present_pages;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.39/mm-vmscan-evaluate-the-watermarks-against-the-correct.patch
queue-2.6.39/mm-vmscan-correct-check-for-kswapd-sleeping-in.patch
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