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vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path
authorMinchan Kim <[email protected]>
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:05:01 +0000 (13:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:22:39 +0000 (17:22 -0700)
commitd1908362ae0b97374eb8328fbb471576332f9fb1
treedb8ba2a4de2e9ac61b8e94fc03a76ddbd24d321f
parenteba93fcc34d6c4387ce8fbb53bb7b685f91f3343
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 <[email protected]>
  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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Reported-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <[email protected]>
Reported-by: <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Tested-by: <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
mm/vmscan.c
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