commit: 4746efded84d7c5a9c8d64d4c6e814ff0cf9fb42
From: Shaohua Li <shaohua...@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:49:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] vmscan: fix a livelock in kswapd
I'm running a workload which triggers a lot of swap in a machine with 4
nodes. After I kill the workload, I found a kswapd livelock. Sometimes
kswapd3 or kswapd2 are keeping running and I can't access filesystem,
but most memory is free.
This looks like a regression since commit 08951e545918c159 ("mm: vmscan:
correct check for kswapd sleeping in sleeping_prematurely").
Node 2 and 3 have only ZONE_NORMAL, but balance_pgdat() will return 0
for classzone_idx. The reason is end_zone in balance_pgdat() is 0 by
default, if all zones have watermark ok, end_zone will keep 0.
Later sleeping_prematurely() always returns true. Because this is an
order 3 wakeup, and if classzone_idx is 0, both balanced_pages and
present_pages in pgdat_balanced() are 0. We add a special case here.
If a zone has no page, we think it's balanced. This fixes the livelock.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com>
Cc: <sta...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 5ed24b9..d036e59 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2310,7 +2310,8 @@ static bool pgdat_balanced(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned
long balanced_pages,
for (i = 0; i <= classzone_idx; i++)
present_pages += pgdat->node_zones[i].present_pages;
- return balanced_pages > (present_pages >> 2);
+ /* A special case here: if zone has no page, we think it's balanced */
+ return balanced_pages >= (present_pages >> 2);
}
/* is kswapd sleeping prematurely? */
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