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mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:54:23 +0000 (13:54 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:51:17 +0000 (08:51 -0800)
commit784da37609474f21537a41f9062f5754344d1e9e
tree4392ca5fa1cb409d3badc786bf5e2d0fed34ab1c
parentc85d7dcace6ac2432a82f00dbd822a13325d57f7
mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing

Kswapd does not in all places have the same criteria for a balanced
zone.  Zones are only being reclaimed when their high watermark is
breached, but compaction checks loop over the zonelist again when the
zone does not meet the low watermark plus two times the size of the
allocation.  This gets kswapd stuck in an endless loop over a small
zone, like the DMA zone, where the high watermark is smaller than the
compaction requirement.

Add a function, zone_balanced(), that checks the watermark, and, for
higher order allocations, if compaction has enough free memory.  Then
use it uniformly to check for balanced zones.

This makes sure that when the compaction watermark is not met, at least
reclaim happens and progress is made - or the zone is declared
unreclaimable at some point and skipped entirely.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Reported-by: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c