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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-01-12 17:19:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -0800 |
| commit | 7335084d446b83cbcb15da80497d03f0c1dc9e21 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bc34f3cc12a4f6fce19b8eeaed52dc3e4202b5b /mm | |
| parent | 5013473152d1ac9d44d787fb02edda845fdf2cb3 (diff) | |
mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction
During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so that
compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If this
decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible that 0 is
returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an OOM. This has
not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch addresses it.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 866ab27c52a..cb68c53db4e 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2263,6 +2263,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, struct zoneref *z; struct zone *zone; unsigned long writeback_threshold; + bool should_abort_reclaim; get_mems_allowed(); delayacct_freepages_start(); @@ -2274,7 +2275,8 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, sc->nr_scanned = 0; if (!priority) disable_swap_token(sc->target_mem_cgroup); - if (shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc)) + should_abort_reclaim = shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc); + if (should_abort_reclaim) break; /* @@ -2342,6 +2344,10 @@ out: if (oom_killer_disabled) return 0; + /* Aborting reclaim to try compaction? don't OOM, then */ + if (should_abort_reclaim) + return 1; + /* top priority shrink_zones still had more to do? don't OOM, then */ if (global_reclaim(sc) && !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc)) return 1; |