The patch titled
Subject: mm: fix shrink nr.unqueued_dirty counter issue
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-fix-shrink-nrunqueued_dirty-counter-issue.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-fix-shrink-nrunqueued_dirty-counter-issue.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: fix shrink nr.unqueued_dirty counter issue
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:23:52 +0800
It is needed to ensure sc->nr.unqueued_dirty > 0, which can avoid setting
PGDAT_DIRTY flag when sc->nr.unqueued_dirty and sc->nr.file_taken are both
zero.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240112012353.1387-1-justinjiang@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Jiang <justinjiang@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-fix-shrink-nrunqueued_dirty-counter-issue
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -5984,7 +5984,8 @@ again:
set_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &pgdat->flags);
/* Allow kswapd to start writing pages during reclaim.*/
- if (sc->nr.unqueued_dirty == sc->nr.file_taken)
+ if (sc->nr.unqueued_dirty &&
+ sc->nr.unqueued_dirty == sc->nr.file_taken)
set_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &pgdat->flags);
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from justinjiang@xxxxxxxx are
mm-fix-shrink-nrunqueued_dirty-counter-issue.patch
