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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2015-02-12 15:00:28 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-03-18 14:10:54 +0100
commit2cd12f3d5799add8af547cec707404c9ad053c76 (patch)
treea37896b70cc6f7de34efb36d088f94646bb98995 /mm
parent1bab6ee0b41e4fa4550693da82742aa50a94290c (diff)
mm: fix negative nr_isolated counts
commit ff59909a077b3c51c168cb658601c6b63136a347 upstream. The vmstat interfaces are good at hiding negative counts (at least when CONFIG_SMP); but if you peer behind the curtain, you find that nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file soon go negative, and grow ever more negative: so they can absorb larger and larger numbers of isolated pages, yet still appear to be zero. I'm happy to avoid a congestion_wait() when too_many_isolated() myself; but I guess it's there for a good reason, in which case we ought to get too_many_isolated() working again. The imbalance comes from isolate_migratepages()'s ISOLATE_ABORT case: putback_movable_pages() decrements the NR_ISOLATED counts, but we forgot to call acct_isolated() to increment them. It is possible that the bug whcih this patch fixes could cause OOM kills when the system still has a lot of reclaimable page cache. Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/compaction.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index d3efa975c817..91357ff6d3a8 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1015,8 +1015,10 @@ static isolate_migrate_t isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone,
low_pfn = isolate_migratepages_block(cc, low_pfn, end_pfn,
isolate_mode);
- if (!low_pfn || cc->contended)
+ if (!low_pfn || cc->contended) {
+ acct_isolated(zone, cc);
return ISOLATE_ABORT;
+ }
/*
* Either we isolated something and proceed with migration. Or