From 9203b3fa57cc16bf1ad1be7c64b01b5e45cc6151 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Shi Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:08:45 -0700 Subject: kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Acked-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Tested-by: Pádraig Brady Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 5cc0f92..870cbcf 100644 --- 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; } -- cgit v1.1