Re: [resend][PATCH] mm, vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages() livelock

[Kamezawa Hiroyuki]

(2012/06/14 17:13), kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently, do_try_to_free_pages() can enter livelock. Because of,
> now vmscan has two conflicted policies.
> 
> 1) kswapd sleep when it couldn't reclaim any page when reaching
>     priority 0. This is because to avoid kswapd() infinite
>     loop. That said, kswapd assume direct reclaim makes enough
>     free pages to use either regular page reclaim or oom-killer.
>     This logic makes kswapd ->  direct-reclaim dependency.
> 2) direct reclaim continue to reclaim without oom-killer until
>     kswapd turn on zone->all_unreclaimble. This is because
>     to avoid too early oom-kill.
>     This logic makes direct-reclaim ->  kswapd dependency.
> 
> In worst case, direct-reclaim may continue to page reclaim forever
> when kswapd sleeps forever.
> 
> We can't turn on zone->all_unreclaimable from direct reclaim path
> because direct reclaim path don't take any lock and this way is racy.
> 
> Thus this patch removes zone->all_unreclaimable field completely and
> recalculates zone reclaimable state every time.
> 
> Note: we can't take the idea that direct-reclaim see zone->pages_scanned
> directly and kswapd continue to use zone->all_unreclaimable. Because, it
> is racy. commit 929bea7c71 (vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use
> zone->all_unreclaimable as a name) describes the detail.
> 
> Reported-by: Aaditya Kumar<aaditya.kumar.30@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Ying Han<yinghan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Nick Piggin<npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel<riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko<mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mel Gorman<mel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim<minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I like this.
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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