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authorMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>2010-09-22 13:05:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-22 17:22:39 -0700
commitd1908362ae0b97374eb8328fbb471576332f9fb1 (patch)
treedb8ba2a4de2e9ac61b8e94fc03a76ddbd24d321f /fs/aio.c
parenteba93fcc34d6c4387ce8fbb53bb7b685f91f3343 (diff)
vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path
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@jp.fujitsu.com> 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@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reported-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com> Reported-by: <caiqian@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: <caiqian@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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