The patch titled Subject: mm: memcontrol: clean up reclaim size variable use in try_charge() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcontrol-clean-up-reclaim-size-variable-use-in-try_charge.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-clean-up-reclaim-size-variable-use-in-try_charge.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-clean-up-reclaim-size-variable-use-in-try_charge.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: memcontrol: clean up reclaim size variable use in try_charge() Charge reclaim and OOM currently use the charge batch variable, but batching is already disabled at that point. To simplify the charge logic, the batch variable is reset to the original request size when reclaim is entered, so it's functionally equal, but it's misleading. Switch reclaim/OOM to nr_pages, which is the original request size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-clean-up-reclaim-size-variable-use-in-try_charge mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-clean-up-reclaim-size-variable-use-in-try_charge +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2574,7 +2574,7 @@ retry: nr_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_reclaim(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, flags); - if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= batch) + if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages) goto retry; if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) @@ -2588,7 +2588,7 @@ retry: * unlikely to succeed so close to the limit, and we fall back * to regular pages anyway in case of failure. */ - if (nr_reclaimed && batch <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) + if (nr_reclaimed && nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER)) goto retry; /* * At task move, charge accounts can be doubly counted. So, it's @@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ retry: if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) goto bypass; - mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(batch)); + mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(nr_pages)); nomem: if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) return -ENOMEM; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch vmalloc-use-rcu-list-iterator-to-reduce-vmap_area_lock-contention.patch mm-page-flags-clean-up-the-page-flag-test-set-clear-macros.patch mm-memcontrol-fold-mem_cgroup_do_charge.patch mm-memcontrol-rearrange-charging-fast-path.patch mm-memcontrol-reclaim-at-least-once-for-__gfp_noretry.patch mm-huge_memory-use-gfp_transhuge-when-charging-huge-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-retry-reclaim-for-oom-disabled-and-__gfp_nofail-charges.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-explicit-oom-parameter-in-charge-path.patch mm-memcontrol-simplify-move-precharge-function.patch mm-memcontrol-catch-root-bypass-in-move-precharge.patch mm-memcontrol-use-root_mem_cgroup-res_counter.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-ordering-between-pc-mem_cgroup-and-pagecgroupused.patch mm-memcontrol-do-not-acquire-page_cgroup-lock-for-kmem-pages.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-3.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-shmem_unuse.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-charge-api-fix-hugetlb-charging.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-2.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-4.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-5.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-uncharge-from-irq-context.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-double-migration-v2.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-migrate-before-re-mapping.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-page-cache-migration.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-page-cache-migration-2.patch mm-memcontrol-rewrite-uncharge-api-fix-clear-page-mapping-in-migration.patch mm-memcontrol-use-page-lists-for-uncharge-batching.patch mm-memcontrol-use-page-lists-for-uncharge-batching-fix-hugetlb-page-lru.patch page-cgroup-trivial-cleanup.patch page-cgroup-get-rid-of-nr_pcg_flags.patch memcg-remove-lookup_cgroup_page-prototype.patch mm-vmscan-remove-remains-of-kswapd-managed-zone-all_unreclaimable.patch mm-vmscan-rework-compaction-ready-signaling-in-direct-reclaim.patch mm-vmscan-rework-compaction-ready-signaling-in-direct-reclaim-fix.patch mm-vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable.patch mm-vmscan-remove-all_unreclaimable-fix.patch mm-vmscan-move-swappiness-out-of-scan_control.patch mm-vmscan-clean-up-struct-scan_control-v2.patch mm-export-nr_shmem-via-sysinfo2-si_meminfo-interfaces.patch mm-replace-init_page_accessed-by-__setpagereferenced.patch mm-update-the-description-for-vm_total_pages.patch mm-vmscan-report-the-number-of-file-anon-pages-respectively.patch mm-pagemap-avoid-unnecessary-overhead-when-tracepoints-are-deactivated.patch mm-rearrange-zone-fields-into-read-only-page-alloc-statistics-and-page-reclaim-lines.patch mm-move-zone-pages_scanned-into-a-vmstat-counter.patch mm-vmscan-only-update-per-cpu-thresholds-for-online-cpu.patch mm-page_alloc-abort-fair-zone-allocation-policy-when-remotes-nodes-are-encountered.patch mm-page_alloc-reduce-cost-of-the-fair-zone-allocation-policy.patch mm-writeback-prevent-race-when-calculating-dirty-limits.patch slub-remove-kmemcg-id-from-create_unique_id.patch mm-oom-ensure-memoryless-node-zonelist-always-includes-zones.patch mm-oom-ensure-memoryless-node-zonelist-always-includes-zones-fix.patch mm-oom-rename-zonelist-locking-functions.patch mm-thp-restructure-thp-avoidance-of-light-synchronous-migration.patch mm-vmscan-fix-an-outdated-comment-still-mentioning-get_scan_ratio.patch memcg-vmscan-fix-forced-scan-of-anonymous-pages.patch memcg-vmscan-fix-forced-scan-of-anonymous-pages-fix-cleanups.patch mm-memcontrol-avoid-charge-statistics-churn-during-page-migration.patch mm-memcontrol-clean-up-reclaim-size-variable-use-in-try_charge.patch nilfs2-integrate-sysfs-support-into-driver-fix.patch linux-next.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html