[patch 2/4] lowmemorykiller: Don't count free space unless it meetsthe specified limit by itself

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon May 11 2009 - 18:46:30 EST


From: Arve HjÃnnevÃg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This allows processes to be killed when the kernel evict cache pages in
an attempt to get more contiguous free memory.

Signed-off-by: Arve HjÃnnevÃg <arve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
--- a/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c
@@ -58,20 +58,25 @@ static int lowmem_shrink(int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask)
int min_adj = OOM_ADJUST_MAX + 1;
int selected_tasksize = 0;
int array_size = ARRAY_SIZE(lowmem_adj);
- int other_free = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES);
+ int other_free = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES);
+ int other_file = global_page_state(NR_FILE_PAGES);
if(lowmem_adj_size < array_size)
array_size = lowmem_adj_size;
if(lowmem_minfree_size < array_size)
array_size = lowmem_minfree_size;
for(i = 0; i < array_size; i++) {
- if(other_free < lowmem_minfree[i]) {
+ if (other_free < lowmem_minfree[i] &&
+ other_file < lowmem_minfree[i]) {
min_adj = lowmem_adj[i];
break;
}
}
if(nr_to_scan > 0)
- lowmem_print(3, "lowmem_shrink %d, %x, ofree %d, ma %d\n", nr_to_scan, gfp_mask, other_free, min_adj);
- rem = global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE) + global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE);
+ lowmem_print(3, "lowmem_shrink %d, %x, ofree %d %d, ma %d\n", nr_to_scan, gfp_mask, other_free, other_file, min_adj);
+ rem = global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
+ global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
+ global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON) +
+ global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE);
if (nr_to_scan <= 0 || min_adj == OOM_ADJUST_MAX + 1) {
lowmem_print(5, "lowmem_shrink %d, %x, return %d\n", nr_to_scan, gfp_mask, rem);
return rem;