commit da175d06b437093f93109ba9e5efbe44dfdf9409 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 <mgor...@suse.de> Reported-by: Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> Tested-by: Andrew Lutomirski <l...@mit.edu> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <sta...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index a4711ff..f4dab3d 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2279,7 +2279,7 @@ static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining, } 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; -- 1.7.3.4 _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable