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Johannes Weiner authored
There are a few reports of people experiencing hangs when copying large amounts of data with kswapd using a large amount of CPU which appear to be due to recent reclaim changes. SLUB using high orders is the trigger but not the root cause as SLUB has been using high orders for a while. The root cause was bugs introduced into reclaim which are addressed by the following two patches. Patch 1 corrects logic introduced by commit 1741c877 ("mm: kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the node is balanced") to allow kswapd to go to sleep when balanced for high orders. Patch 2 notes that it is possible for kswapd to miss every cond_resched() and updates shrink_slab() so it'll at least reach that scheduling point. Chris Wood reports that these two patches in isolation are sufficient to prevent the system hanging. AFAIK, they should also resolve similar hangs experienced by James Bottomley. This patch: Johannes Weiner poined out that the logic in commit 1741c877 ("mm: kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the node is balanced") is backwards. Instead of allowing kswapd to go to sleep when balancing for high order allocations, it keeps it kswapd running uselessly. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Tested-by:
Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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