The patch titled
Subject: mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix
reflow comment to 80 cols to save a couple of lines
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3994,13 +3994,11 @@ should_reclaim_retry(gfp_t gfp_mask, uns
out:
/*
- * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ
- * context and the current implementation of the WQ
- * concurrency control doesn't recognize that
- * a particular WQ is congested if the worker thread is
- * looping without ever sleeping. Therefore we have to
- * do a short sleep here rather than calling
- * cond_resched().
+ * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ context and the
+ * current implementation of the WQ concurrency control doesn't
+ * recognize that a particular WQ is congested if the worker thread is
+ * looping without ever sleeping. Therefore we have to do a short sleep
+ * here rather than calling cond_resched().
*/
if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-utilc-improve-kvfree-kerneldoc.patch
arm-arch-arm-include-asm-pageh-needs-personalityh.patch
mm.patch
mmpage_alloc-pf_wq_worker-threads-must-sleep-at-should_reclaim_retry-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-unnecessary-binary-search-in-memblock_next_valid_pfn-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-unnecessary-binary-search-in-memblock_next_valid_pfn-fix-fix.patch
mm-memblock-introduce-memblock_search_pfn_regions-fix.patch
mm-calculate-deferred-pages-after-skipping-mirrored-memory-fix.patch
list_lru-prefetch-neighboring-list-entries-before-acquiring-lock-fix.patch
kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch
slab-leaks3-default-y.patch
