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Andrew Morton authored
try_to_free_pages() currently fails to notice that it successfully freed slab pages via shrink_slab(). So it can keep looping and eventually call out_of_memory(), even though there's a lot of memory now free. And even if it doesn't do that, it can free too much memory. The patch changes try_to_free_pages() so that it will notice freed slab pages and will return when enough memory has been freed via shrink_slab(). Many options were considered, but must of them were unacceptably inaccurate, intrusive or sleazy. I ended up putting the accounting into a stack-local structure which is pointed to by current->reclaim_state. One reason for this is that we can cleanly resurrect the current->local_pages pool by putting it into struct reclaim_state. (current->local_pages was removed because the per-cpu page pools in the page allocator largely duplicate its function. But it is still possible for interrupt-time allocations to steal just-freed pages, so we might want to put it back some time.)
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