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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-26 18:33:33 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-26 18:33:33 -0800 |
commit | 2844a48706e54ddda4a04269dba4250b42f449de (patch) | |
tree | deaf92b185ed33b86c5f6de225f0d16e39a94725 /mm | |
parent | 5687100aad982b7964f998886c282034b472653d (diff) | |
parent | aa10990e028cac3d5e255711fb9fb47e00700e35 (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixes from Andrew)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"8 fixes"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (8 patches)
futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 37 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index bcb72c6e2b2d..92871579cbee 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2416,8 +2416,9 @@ __alloc_pages_slowpath(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, goto nopage; restart: - wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, - zone_idx(preferred_zone)); + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)) + wake_all_kswapd(order, zonelist, high_zoneidx, + zone_idx(preferred_zone)); /* * OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background @@ -2494,7 +2495,7 @@ rebalance: * system then fail the allocation instead of entering direct reclaim. */ if ((deferred_compaction || contended_compaction) && - (gfp_mask & (__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_REPEAT)) == __GFP_MOVABLE) + (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)) goto nopage; /* Try direct reclaim and then allocating */ diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 48550c66f1f2..cbf84e152f04 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2207,9 +2207,12 @@ static bool pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pg_data_t *pgdat) * Throttle direct reclaimers if backing storage is backed by the network * and the PFMEMALLOC reserve for the preferred node is getting dangerously * depleted. kswapd will continue to make progress and wake the processes - * when the low watermark is reached + * when the low watermark is reached. + * + * Returns true if a fatal signal was delivered during throttling. If this + * happens, the page allocator should not consider triggering the OOM killer. */ -static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, +static bool throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, nodemask_t *nodemask) { struct zone *zone; @@ -2224,13 +2227,20 @@ static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, * processes to block on log_wait_commit(). */ if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) - return; + goto out; + + /* + * If a fatal signal is pending, this process should not throttle. + * It should return quickly so it can exit and free its memory + */ + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) + goto out; /* Check if the pfmemalloc reserves are ok */ first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, high_zoneidx, NULL, &zone); pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat; if (pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)) - return; + goto out; /* Account for the throttling */ count_vm_event(PGSCAN_DIRECT_THROTTLE); @@ -2246,12 +2256,20 @@ static void throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_mask, struct zonelist *zonelist, if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) { wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait, pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat), HZ); - return; + + goto check_pending; } /* Throttle until kswapd wakes the process */ wait_event_killable(zone->zone_pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait, pfmemalloc_watermark_ok(pgdat)); + +check_pending: + if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) + return true; + +out: + return false; } unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order, @@ -2273,13 +2291,12 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order, .gfp_mask = sc.gfp_mask, }; - throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, zonelist, nodemask); - /* - * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal is pending. 1 is returned so - * that the page allocator does not consider triggering OOM + * Do not enter reclaim if fatal signal was delivered while throttled. + * 1 is returned so that the page allocator does not OOM kill at this + * point. */ - if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) + if (throttle_direct_reclaim(gfp_mask, zonelist, nodemask)) return 1; trace_mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin(order, |