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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Greg KH" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Alex Shi" <alex.shi@intel.com>,
	"Mel Gorman" <mgorman@suse.de>,
	"Minchan Kim" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	"Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Subject: [ 27/41] kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:31:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730172903.434761737@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120730172901.306897424@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>

commit f0dfcde099453aa4c0dc42473828d15a6d492936 upstream.

Stable note: Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712019.  This
	patch reduces kswapd CPU usage.

There 2 places to read pgdat in kswapd.  One is return from a successful
balance, another is waked up from kswapd sleeping.  The new_order and
new_classzone_idx represent the balance input order and classzone_idx.

But current new_order and new_classzone_idx are not assigned after
kswapd_try_to_sleep(), that will cause a bug in the following scenario.

1: after a successful balance, kswapd goes to sleep, and new_order = 0;
   new_classzone_idx = __MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;

2: kswapd waked up with order = 3 and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL

3: in the balance_pgdat() running, a new balance wakeup happened with
   order = 5, and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL

4: the first wakeup(order = 3) finished successufly, return order = 3
   but, the new_order is still 0, so, this balancing will be treated as a
   failed balance.  And then the second tighter balancing will be missed.

So, to avoid the above problem, the new_order and new_classzone_idx need
to be assigned for later successful comparison.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2908,6 +2908,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 						balanced_classzone_idx);
 			order = pgdat->kswapd_max_order;
 			classzone_idx = pgdat->classzone_idx;
+			new_order = order;
+			new_classzone_idx = classzone_idx;
 			pgdat->kswapd_max_order = 0;
 			pgdat->classzone_idx = pgdat->nr_zones - 1;
 		}



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-30 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 17:30 [ 00/41] 3.0.39-rc2 stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 01/41] cifs: always update the inode cache with the results from a FIND_* Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 02/41] ntp: Fix STA_INS/DEL clearing bug Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 03/41] mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 04/41] MIPS: Properly align the .data..init_task section Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 05/41] UBIFS: fix a bug in empty space fix-up Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 06/41] dm raid1: fix crash with mirror recovery and discard Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 07/41] mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_stat Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 08/41] mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 09/41] mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 10/41] mm: vmscan: fix force-scanning small targets without swap Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 11/41] vmscan: clear ZONE_CONGESTED for zone with good watermark Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 12/41] vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 13/41] vmscan: shrinker->nr updates race and go wrong Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 14/41] vmscan: reduce wind up shrinker->nr when shrinker cant do work Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 15/41] vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 16/41] vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 17/41] mm: compaction: trivial clean up in acct_isolated() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 18/41] mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 19/41] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 20/41] mm: zone_reclaim: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 21/41] mm: migration: clean up unmap_and_move() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 22/41] mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 23/41] mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 24/41] mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 25/41] mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 26/41] kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 28/41] mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-31 16:43   ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-07-31 17:00     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 29/41] mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free pages available Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 30/41] mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 31/41] mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() is true for one zone Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 32/41] vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 33/41] vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 34/41] mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue reclaim Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 35/41] mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaim Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 36/41] mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 37/41] cpusets: avoid looping when storing to mems_allowed if one node remains set Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 38/41] cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 39/41] cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 40/41] mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-07-30 17:31 ` [ 41/41] vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling Greg Kroah-Hartman

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