Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "13 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  agp: info leak in agpioc_info_wrap()
  fs/affs/super.c: bugfix / double free
  fanotify: fix -EOVERFLOW with large files on 64-bit
  slub: use sysfs'es release mechanism for kmem_cache
  revert "mm: vmscan: do not swap anon pages just because free+file is low"
  autofs: fix lockref lookup
  mm: filemap: update find_get_pages_tag() to deal with shadow entries
  mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary
  MAINTAINERS: zswap/zbud: change maintainer email address
  mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom
  hugetlb: ensure hugepage access is denied if hugepages are not supported
  slub: fix memcg_propagate_slab_attrs
  drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8523.c: fix month definition

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 3f56c8deb3c0..32c661d66a45 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1916,6 +1916,24 @@ static void get_scan_count(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc,
 		get_lru_size(lruvec, LRU_INACTIVE_FILE);
 
 	/*
+	 * Prevent the reclaimer from falling into the cache trap: as
+	 * cache pages start out inactive, every cache fault will tip
+	 * the scan balance towards the file LRU.  And as the file LRU
+	 * shrinks, so does the window for rotation from references.
+	 * This means we have a runaway feedback loop where a tiny
+	 * thrashing file LRU becomes infinitely more attractive than
+	 * anon pages.  Try to detect this based on file LRU size.
+	 */
+	if (global_reclaim(sc)) {
+		unsigned long free = zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES);
+
+		if (unlikely(file + free <= high_wmark_pages(zone))) {
+			scan_balance = SCAN_ANON;
+			goto out;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
 	 * There is enough inactive page cache, do not reclaim
 	 * anything from the anonymous working set right now.
 	 */