Re: [PATCH mmotm] vmscan move pgdeactivate modification to shrink_active_list fix

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Hi Hugh

2009/8/29 Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>:
> mmotm 2009-08-27-16-51 lets the OOM killer loose on my loads even
> quicker than last time: one bug fixed but another bug introduced.
> vmscan-move-pgdeactivate-modification-to-shrink_active_list.patch
> forgot to add NR_LRU_BASE to lru index to make zone_page_state index.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>

Can I use your test case?
Currently LRU_BASE is 0. it mean

LRU_BASE == NR_INACTIVE_ANON == 0
LRU_ACTIVE == NR_ACTIVE_ANON == 1

Therefore, I doubt there are another issue in current mmotm.
Can I join your strange oom fixing works?


> ---
>
>  mm/vmscan.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- mmotm/mm/vmscan.c   2009-08-28 10:07:57.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/mm/vmscan.c   2009-08-28 18:30:33.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1381,8 +1381,10 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned
>        reclaim_stat->recent_rotated[file] += nr_rotated;
>        __count_vm_events(PGDEACTIVATE, nr_deactivated);
>        __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON + file, -nr_taken);
> -       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, LRU_ACTIVE + file * LRU_FILE, nr_rotated);
> -       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, LRU_BASE + file * LRU_FILE, nr_deactivated);
> +       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON + file * LRU_FILE,
> +                                                       nr_rotated);
> +       __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON + file * LRU_FILE,
> +                                                       nr_deactivated);
>        spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
>  }
>
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