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| author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> | 2018-04-06 01:23:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-04-06 06:36:25 +0200 |
| commit | e830c63a621e20894a663351b968706bd0efbbd0 (patch) | |
| tree | db789c35c67d00d80d91698a11fb12ed64ab26dd /Documentation/atomic_t.txt | |
| parent | z3fold: limit use of stale list for allocation (diff) | |
| download | linux-e830c63a621e20894a663351b968706bd0efbbd0.tar.xz linux-e830c63a621e20894a663351b968706bd0efbbd0.zip | |
mm,vmscan: don't pretend forward progress upon shrinker_rwsem contention
Since we no longer use return value of shrink_slab() for normal reclaim,
the comment is no longer true. If some do_shrink_slab() call takes
unexpectedly long (root cause of stall is currently unknown) when
register_shrinker()/unregister_shrinker() is pending, trying to drop
caches via /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches could become infinite cond_resched()
loop if many mem_cgroup are defined. For safety, let's not pretend
forward progress.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201802202229.GGF26507.LVFtMSOOHFJOQF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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