Hi Mel, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on hnaz-mm/master] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Mel-Gorman/mm-vmscan-Reduce-throttling-due-to-a-failure-to-make-progress/20211202-212004 base: https://github.com/hnaz/linux-mm master config: x86_64-buildonly-randconfig-r001-20211202 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20211203/202112030001.HUiErCyK-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config) compiler: clang version 14.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 4b553297ef3ee4dc2119d5429adf3072e90fac38) reproduce (this is a W=1 build): wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/01dada07590ae9c69a9415ba9af96d5ae184d861 git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Mel-Gorman/mm-vmscan-Reduce-throttling-due-to-a-failure-to-make-progress/20211202-212004 git checkout 01dada07590ae9c69a9415ba9af96d5ae184d861 # save the config file to linux build tree mkdir build_dir COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): >> mm/vmscan.c:1024:6: warning: no previous prototype for function 'skip_throttle_noprogress' [-Wmissing-prototypes] bool skip_throttle_noprogress(pg_data_t *pgdat) ^ mm/vmscan.c:1024:1: note: declare 'static' if the function is not intended to be used outside of this translation unit bool skip_throttle_noprogress(pg_data_t *pgdat) ^ static 1 warning generated. vim +/skip_throttle_noprogress +1024 mm/vmscan.c 1023 > 1024 bool skip_throttle_noprogress(pg_data_t *pgdat) 1025 { 1026 int reclaimable = 0, write_pending = 0; 1027 int i; 1028 1029 /* 1030 * If kswapd is disabled, reschedule if necessary but do not 1031 * throttle as the system is likely near OOM. 1032 */ 1033 if (pgdat->kswapd_failures >= MAX_RECLAIM_RETRIES) 1034 return true; 1035 1036 /* 1037 * If there are a lot of dirty/writeback pages then do not 1038 * throttle as throttling will occur when the pages cycle 1039 * towards the end of the LRU if still under writeback. 1040 */ 1041 for (i = 0; i < MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) { 1042 struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i; 1043 1044 if (!populated_zone(zone)) 1045 continue; 1046 1047 reclaimable += zone_reclaimable_pages(zone); 1048 write_pending += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, 1049 NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING); 1050 } 1051 if (2 * write_pending <= reclaimable) 1052 return true; 1053 1054 return false; 1055 } 1056 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@xxxxxxxxxxxx
