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* [PATCH] mm: Fix calculation of dirtyable memory
@ 2012-11-08 23:25 Sonny Rao
  2012-11-08 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Sonny Rao @ 2012-11-08 23:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Fengguang Wu, Peter Zijlstra, Andrew Morton, Michal Hocko,
	linux-mm, Mandeep Singh Baines, Johannes Weiner, Olof Johansson,
	Will Drewry, Kees Cook, Aaron Durbin, Sonny Rao, Puneet Kumar

The system uses global_dirtyable_memory() to calculate
number of dirtyable pages/pages that can be allocated
to the page cache.  A bug causes an underflow thus making
the page count look like a big unsigned number.  This in turn
confuses the dirty writeback throttling to aggressively write
back pages as they become dirty (usually 1 page at a time).

Fix is to ensure there is no underflow while doing the math.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Puneet Kumar <puneetster@chromium.org>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c |   17 +++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 830893b..2a6356c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -194,11 +194,19 @@ static unsigned long highmem_dirtyable_memory(unsigned long total)
 	unsigned long x = 0;
 
 	for_each_node_state(node, N_HIGH_MEMORY) {
+		unsigned long nr_pages;
 		struct zone *z =
 			&NODE_DATA(node)->node_zones[ZONE_HIGHMEM];
 
-		x += zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
-		     zone_reclaimable_pages(z) - z->dirty_balance_reserve;
+		nr_pages = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES) +
+			zone_reclaimable_pages(z);
+		/*
+		 * Unreclaimable memory (kernel memory or anonymous memory
+		 * without swap) can bring down the dirtyable pages below
+		 * the zone's dirty balance reserve.
+		 */
+		if (nr_pages >= z->dirty_balance_reserve)
+			x += nr_pages - z->dirty_balance_reserve;
 	}
 	/*
 	 * Make sure that the number of highmem pages is never larger
@@ -222,8 +230,9 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
 {
 	unsigned long x;
 
-	x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages() -
-	    dirty_balance_reserve;
+	x = global_page_state(NR_FREE_PAGES) + global_reclaimable_pages();
+	if (x >= dirty_balance_reserve)
+		x -= dirty_balance_reserve;
 
 	if (!vm_highmem_is_dirtyable)
 		x -= highmem_dirtyable_memory(x);
-- 
1.7.7.3

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2012-11-08 23:25 [PATCH] mm: Fix calculation of dirtyable memory Sonny Rao
2012-11-08 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-11-09  0:42   ` [PATCHv2] " Sonny Rao
2012-11-09  0:45     ` Sonny Rao
2012-11-09  0:52       ` Sonny Rao
2012-11-09  2:36         ` Fengguang Wu
2012-11-12 19:35           ` [PATCH] " Sonny Rao
2012-11-12 20:32             ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-12 21:35               ` [PATCHv4] " Sonny Rao
2012-11-17 20:41                 ` Damien Wyart
2012-11-19 13:40                 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-11-19 18:41                   ` [PATCHv5] " Sonny Rao
2012-11-19 18:44                     ` Sonny Rao
2012-11-19 19:22                       ` Damien Wyart

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