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-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c6
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c16
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c1
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c32
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c10
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c26
8 files changed, 61 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index c0018f2..c106d3b 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2407,7 +2407,6 @@ static ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file,
iov_iter_count(i));
again:
-
/*
* Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
* Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the
@@ -2463,7 +2462,10 @@ again:
written += copied;
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
-
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current)) {
+ status = -EINTR;
+ break;
+ }
} while (iov_iter_count(i));
return written ? written : status;
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 4298aba..36b3d98 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2259,12 +2259,8 @@ static void khugepaged_do_scan(struct page **hpage)
static void khugepaged_alloc_sleep(void)
{
- DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
- add_wait_queue(&khugepaged_wait, &wait);
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(
- msecs_to_jiffies(
- khugepaged_alloc_sleep_millisecs));
- remove_wait_queue(&khugepaged_wait, &wait);
+ wait_event_freezable_timeout(khugepaged_wait, false,
+ msecs_to_jiffies(khugepaged_alloc_sleep_millisecs));
}
#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA
@@ -2313,14 +2309,10 @@ static void khugepaged_loop(void)
if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop()))
break;
if (khugepaged_has_work()) {
- DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
if (!khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs)
continue;
- add_wait_queue(&khugepaged_wait, &wait);
- schedule_timeout_interruptible(
- msecs_to_jiffies(
- khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs));
- remove_wait_queue(&khugepaged_wait, &wait);
+ wait_event_freezable_timeout(khugepaged_wait, false,
+ msecs_to_jiffies(khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs));
} else if (khugepaged_enabled())
wait_event_freezable(khugepaged_wait,
khugepaged_wait_event());
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index bb28a5f..73f17c0 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ static void prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
__SetPageHead(page);
for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++, p = mem_map_next(p, page, i)) {
__SetPageTail(p);
+ set_page_count(p, 0);
p->first_page = page;
}
}
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 578e291..177aca4 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -871,9 +871,9 @@ static int unmap_and_move_huge_page(new_page_t get_new_page,
if (anon_vma)
put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
-out:
unlock_page(hpage);
+out:
if (rc != -EAGAIN) {
list_del(&hpage->lru);
put_page(hpage);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7125248..50f0824 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -411,8 +411,13 @@ void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
*
* Returns @bdi's dirty limit in pages. The term "dirty" in the context of
* dirty balancing includes all PG_dirty, PG_writeback and NFS unstable pages.
- * And the "limit" in the name is not seriously taken as hard limit in
- * balance_dirty_pages().
+ *
+ * Note that balance_dirty_pages() will only seriously take it as a hard limit
+ * when sleeping max_pause per page is not enough to keep the dirty pages under
+ * control. For example, when the device is completely stalled due to some error
+ * conditions, or when there are 1000 dd tasks writing to a slow 10MB/s USB key.
+ * In the other normal situations, it acts more gently by throttling the tasks
+ * more (rather than completely block them) when the bdi dirty pages go high.
*
* It allocates high/low dirty limits to fast/slow devices, in order to prevent
* - starving fast devices
@@ -594,6 +599,13 @@ static unsigned long bdi_position_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
*/
if (unlikely(bdi_thresh > thresh))
bdi_thresh = thresh;
+ /*
+ * It's very possible that bdi_thresh is close to 0 not because the
+ * device is slow, but that it has remained inactive for long time.
+ * Honour such devices a reasonable good (hopefully IO efficient)
+ * threshold, so that the occasional writes won't be blocked and active
+ * writes can rampup the threshold quickly.
+ */
bdi_thresh = max(bdi_thresh, (limit - dirty) / 8);
/*
* scale global setpoint to bdi's:
@@ -977,8 +989,7 @@ static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
*
* 8 serves as the safety ratio.
*/
- if (bdi_dirty)
- t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
+ t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1));
/*
* The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause).
@@ -1136,6 +1147,19 @@ pause:
if (task_ratelimit)
break;
+ /*
+ * In the case of an unresponding NFS server and the NFS dirty
+ * pages exceeds dirty_thresh, give the other good bdi's a pipe
+ * to go through, so that tasks on them still remain responsive.
+ *
+ * In theory 1 page is enough to keep the comsumer-producer
+ * pipe going: the flusher cleans 1 page => the task dirties 1
+ * more page. However bdi_dirty has accounting errors. So use
+ * the larger and more IO friendly bdi_stat_error.
+ */
+ if (bdi_dirty <= bdi_stat_error(bdi))
+ break;
+
if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
break;
}
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 9dd443d..2b8ba3a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -356,8 +356,8 @@ void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order)
__SetPageHead(page);
for (i = 1; i < nr_pages; i++) {
struct page *p = page + i;
-
__SetPageTail(p);
+ set_page_count(p, 0);
p->first_page = page;
}
}
@@ -3377,9 +3377,15 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(struct zone *zone)
unsigned long block_migratetype;
int reserve;
- /* Get the start pfn, end pfn and the number of blocks to reserve */
+ /*
+ * Get the start pfn, end pfn and the number of blocks to reserve
+ * We have to be careful to be aligned to pageblock_nr_pages to
+ * make sure that we always check pfn_valid for the first page in
+ * the block.
+ */
start_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn;
end_pfn = start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages;
+ start_pfn = roundup(start_pfn, pageblock_nr_pages);
reserve = roundup(min_wmark_pages(zone), pageblock_nr_pages) >>
pageblock_order;
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 3231bf3..1d8b32f 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1633,6 +1633,8 @@ void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
goto fail;
addr = __vmalloc_area_node(area, gfp_mask, prot, node, caller);
+ if (!addr)
+ return NULL;
/*
* In this function, newly allocated vm_struct is not added
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index a1893c0..f54a05b 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static unsigned long zone_nr_lru_pages(struct zone *zone,
*/
void register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
{
- shrinker->nr = 0;
+ atomic_long_set(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list);
up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
@@ -247,25 +247,26 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
unsigned long long delta;
- unsigned long total_scan;
- unsigned long max_pass;
+ long total_scan;
+ long max_pass;
int shrink_ret = 0;
long nr;
long new_nr;
long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
: SHRINK_BATCH;
+ max_pass = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink, 0);
+ if (max_pass <= 0)
+ continue;
+
/*
* copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
* and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
* don't also do this scanning work.
*/
- do {
- nr = shrinker->nr;
- } while (cmpxchg(&shrinker->nr, nr, 0) != nr);
+ nr = atomic_long_xchg(&shrinker->nr_in_batch, 0);
total_scan = nr;
- max_pass = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink, 0);
delta = (4 * nr_pages_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
delta *= max_pass;
do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
@@ -325,12 +326,11 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
* manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the
* scan, there is no need to do an update.
*/
- do {
- nr = shrinker->nr;
- new_nr = total_scan + nr;
- if (total_scan <= 0)
- break;
- } while (cmpxchg(&shrinker->nr, nr, new_nr) != nr);
+ if (total_scan > 0)
+ new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan,
+ &shrinker->nr_in_batch);
+ else
+ new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_in_batch);
trace_mm_shrink_slab_end(shrinker, shrink_ret, nr, new_nr);
}