The patch titled thp: freeze khugepaged and ksmd has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was thp-freeze-khugepaged-and-ksmd.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: thp: freeze khugepaged and ksmd From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> It's unclear why schedule friendly kernel threads can't be taken away by the CPU through the scheduler itself. It's safer to stop them as they can trigger memory allocation, if kswapd also freezes itself to avoid generating I/O they have too. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- mm/ksm.c | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~thp-freeze-khugepaged-and-ksmd mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~thp-freeze-khugepaged-and-ksmd +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/mm_inline.h> #include <linux/kthread.h> #include <linux/khugepaged.h> +#include <linux/freezer.h> #include <asm/tlb.h> #include <asm/pgalloc.h> #include "internal.h" @@ -2085,6 +2086,9 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(struct pa break; #endif + if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop() || freezing(current))) + break; + spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock); if (!khugepaged_scan.mm_slot) pass_through_head++; @@ -2147,6 +2151,9 @@ static void khugepaged_loop(void) if (hpage) put_page(hpage); #endif + try_to_freeze(); + if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop())) + break; if (khugepaged_has_work()) { DEFINE_WAIT(wait); if (!khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs) @@ -2157,8 +2164,8 @@ static void khugepaged_loop(void) khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs)); remove_wait_queue(&khugepaged_wait, &wait); } else if (khugepaged_enabled()) - wait_event_interruptible(khugepaged_wait, - khugepaged_wait_event()); + wait_event_freezable(khugepaged_wait, + khugepaged_wait_event()); } } @@ -2166,6 +2173,7 @@ static int khugepaged(void *none) { struct mm_slot *mm_slot; + set_freezable(); set_user_nice(current, 19); /* serialize with start_khugepaged() */ @@ -2180,6 +2188,8 @@ static int khugepaged(void *none) mutex_lock(&khugepaged_mutex); if (!khugepaged_enabled()) break; + if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop())) + break; } spin_lock(&khugepaged_mm_lock); diff -puN mm/ksm.c~thp-freeze-khugepaged-and-ksmd mm/ksm.c --- a/mm/ksm.c~thp-freeze-khugepaged-and-ksmd +++ a/mm/ksm.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include <linux/swap.h> #include <linux/ksm.h> #include <linux/hash.h> +#include <linux/freezer.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include "internal.h" @@ -1365,7 +1366,7 @@ static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int sca struct rmap_item *rmap_item; struct page *uninitialized_var(page); - while (scan_npages--) { + while (scan_npages-- && likely(!freezing(current))) { cond_resched(); rmap_item = scan_get_next_rmap_item(&page); if (!rmap_item) @@ -1383,6 +1384,7 @@ static int ksmd_should_run(void) static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing) { + set_freezable(); set_user_nice(current, 5); while (!kthread_should_stop()) { @@ -1391,11 +1393,13 @@ static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing ksm_do_scan(ksm_thread_pages_to_scan); mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex); + try_to_freeze(); + if (ksmd_should_run()) { schedule_timeout_interruptible( msecs_to_jiffies(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs)); } else { - wait_event_interruptible(ksm_thread_wait, + wait_event_freezable(ksm_thread_wait, ksmd_should_run() || kthread_should_stop()); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch thp-add-pagetranscompound.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