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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 82 |
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index d6c916d808ba..1109de0c35bf 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -724,25 +724,55 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, may_enter_fs = (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) || (PageSwapCache(page) && (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)); + /* + * If a page at the tail of the LRU is under writeback, there + * are three cases to consider. + * + * 1) If reclaim is encountering an excessive number of pages + * under writeback and this page is both under writeback and + * PageReclaim then it indicates that pages are being queued + * for IO but are being recycled through the LRU before the + * IO can complete. Waiting on the page itself risks an + * indefinite stall if it is impossible to writeback the + * page due to IO error or disconnected storage so instead + * block for HZ/10 or until some IO completes then clear the + * ZONE_WRITEBACK flag to recheck if the condition exists. + * + * 2) Global reclaim encounters a page, memcg encounters a + * page that is not marked for immediate reclaim or + * the caller does not have __GFP_IO. In this case mark + * the page for immediate reclaim and continue scanning. + * + * __GFP_IO is checked because a loop driver thread might + * enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits on a page for + * which it is needed to do the write (loop masks off + * __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); but more thought + * would probably show more reasons. + * + * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into the + * FS, just waiting on its writeback completion. Worryingly, + * ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with + * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so testing + * may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them. + * + * 3) memcg encounters a page that is not already marked + * PageReclaim. memcg does not have any dirty pages + * throttling so we could easily OOM just because too many + * pages are in writeback and there is nothing else to + * reclaim. Wait for the writeback to complete. + */ if (PageWriteback(page)) { - /* - * memcg doesn't have any dirty pages throttling so we - * could easily OOM just because too many pages are in - * writeback and there is nothing else to reclaim. - * - * Check __GFP_IO, certainly because a loop driver - * thread might enter reclaim, and deadlock if it waits - * on a page for which it is needed to do the write - * (loop masks off __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS for this reason); - * but more thought would probably show more reasons. - * - * Don't require __GFP_FS, since we're not going into - * the FS, just waiting on its writeback completion. - * Worryingly, ext4 gfs2 and xfs allocate pages with - * grab_cache_page_write_begin(,,AOP_FLAG_NOFS), so - * testing may_enter_fs here is liable to OOM on them. - */ - if (global_reclaim(sc) || + /* Case 1 above */ + if (current_is_kswapd() && + PageReclaim(page) && + zone_is_reclaim_writeback(zone)) { + unlock_page(page); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); + zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK); + goto keep; + + /* Case 2 above */ + } else if (global_reclaim(sc) || !PageReclaim(page) || !(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) { /* * This is slightly racy - end_page_writeback() @@ -757,9 +787,13 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, */ SetPageReclaim(page); nr_writeback++; + goto keep_locked; + + /* Case 3 above */ + } else { + wait_on_page_writeback(page); } - wait_on_page_writeback(page); } if (!force_reclaim) @@ -1374,8 +1408,10 @@ shrink_inactive_list(unsigned long nr_to_scan, struct lruvec *lruvec, * isolated page is PageWriteback */ if (nr_writeback && nr_writeback >= - (nr_taken >> (DEF_PRIORITY - sc->priority))) + (nr_taken >> (DEF_PRIORITY - sc->priority))) { wait_iff_congested(zone, BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/10); + zone_set_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK); + } /* * Similarly, if many dirty pages are encountered that are not @@ -2669,8 +2705,8 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining, * the high watermark. * * Returns true if kswapd scanned at least the requested number of pages to - * reclaim. This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be - * raised. + * reclaim or if the lack of progress was due to pages under writeback. + * This is used to determine if the scanning priority needs to be raised. */ static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, struct scan_control *sc, @@ -2697,6 +2733,8 @@ static bool kswapd_shrink_zone(struct zone *zone, if (nr_slab == 0 && !zone_reclaimable(zone)) zone->all_unreclaimable = 1; + zone_clear_flag(zone, ZONE_WRITEBACK); + return sc->nr_scanned >= sc->nr_to_reclaim; } |