The patch titled vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is vmscan-check-all_unreclaimable-in-direct-reclaim-path.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> M. Vefa Bicakci reported 2.6.35 kernel hang up when hibernation on his 32bit 3GB mem machine. (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16771). Also he bisected the regression to commit bb21c7ce18eff8e6e7877ca1d06c6db719376e3c Author: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jun 4 14:15:05 2010 -0700 vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() return value when priority==0 reclaim failure At first impression, this seemed very strange because the above commit only chenged function return value and hibernate_preallocate_memory() ignore return value of shrink_all_memory(). But it's related. Now, page allocation from hibernation code may enter infinite loop if the system has highmem. The reasons are that vmscan don't care enough OOM case when oom_killer_disabled. The problem sequence is following as. 1. hibernation 2. oom_disable 3. alloc_pages 4. do_try_to_free_pages if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && !all_unreclaimable) return 1; If kswapd is not freozen, it would set zone->all_unreclaimable to 1 and then shrink_zones maybe return true(ie, all_unreclaimable is true). So at last, alloc_pages could go to _nopage_. If it is, it should have no problem. This patch adds all_unreclaimable check to protect in direct reclaim path, too. It can care of hibernation OOM case and help bailout all_unreclaimable case slightly. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-check-all_unreclaimable-in-direct-reclaim-path mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~vmscan-check-all_unreclaimable-in-direct-reclaim-path +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1804,12 +1804,11 @@ static void shrink_zone(int priority, st * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light * scan then give up on it. */ -static bool shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, +static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist, struct scan_control *sc) { struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; - bool all_unreclaimable = true; for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) { @@ -1827,8 +1826,36 @@ static bool shrink_zones(int priority, s } shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc); - all_unreclaimable = false; } +} + +static inline bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone) +{ + return zone->pages_scanned < zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6; +} + +static inline bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist, + struct scan_control *sc) +{ + struct zoneref *z; + struct zone *zone; + bool all_unreclaimable = true; + + if (!scanning_global_lru(sc)) + return false; + + for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist, + gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) { + if (!populated_zone(zone)) + continue; + if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL)) + continue; + if (zone_reclaimable(zone)) { + all_unreclaimable = false; + break; + } + } + return all_unreclaimable; } @@ -1852,7 +1879,6 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page struct scan_control *sc) { int priority; - bool all_unreclaimable; unsigned long total_scanned = 0; struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state; struct zoneref *z; @@ -1869,7 +1895,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page sc->nr_scanned = 0; if (!priority) disable_swap_token(); - all_unreclaimable = shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc); + shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc); /* * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from * over limit cgroups @@ -1931,7 +1957,7 @@ out: return sc->nr_reclaimed; /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */ - if (scanning_global_lru(sc) && !all_unreclaimable) + if (!all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc)) return 1; return 0; @@ -2197,8 +2223,7 @@ loop_again: total_scanned += sc.nr_scanned; if (zone->all_unreclaimable) continue; - if (nr_slab == 0 && - zone->pages_scanned >= (zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6)) + if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone)) zone->all_unreclaimable = 1; /* * If we've done a decent amount of scanning and _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx are mm-compaction-handle-active-and-inactive-fairly-in-too_many_isolated.patch vmscan-check-all_unreclaimable-in-direct-reclaim-path.patch vmstat-update-zone-stat-threshold-when-onlining-a-cpu.patch mm-page-allocator-update-free-page-counters-after-pages-are-placed-on-the-free-list.patch mm-page-allocator-update-free-page-counters-after-pages-are-placed-on-the-free-list-fix.patch mm-page-allocator-drain-per-cpu-lists-after-direct-reclaim-allocation-fails.patch mm-vmap-area-cache.patch mm-compaction-fix-compactpagefailed-counting.patch vmscan-prevent-background-aging-of-anon-page-in-no-swap-system.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