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authorJaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>2015-09-08 15:02:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-08 15:35:28 -0700
commitc54839a722a02818677bcabe57e957f0ce4f841d (patch)
treefccaef494e4c693e8972da14354c623366a3fbec /Documentation
parent0b802f101d0c6caeeee89066dc2c8665082a83df (diff)
vmscan: fix increasing nr_isolated incurred by putback unevictable pages
reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() assumes that shrink_page_list() returns number of pages removed from the candidate list. But shrink_page_list() puts back mlocked pages without passing it to caller and without counting as nr_reclaimed. This increases nr_isolated. To fix this, this patch changes shrink_page_list() to pass unevictable pages back to caller. Caller will take care those pages. Minchan said: It fixes two issues. 1. With unevictable page, cma_alloc will be successful. Exactly speaking, cma_alloc of current kernel will fail due to unevictable pages. 2. fix leaking of NR_ISOLATED counter of vmstat With it, too_many_isolated works. Otherwise, it could make hang until the process get SIGKILL. Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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