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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2012-11-27 01:29:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-27 02:41:24 +0100 |
| commit | 4eff96dd5283a102e0c1cac95247090be74a38ed (patch) | |
| tree | f874a34c9048a35639c1597150d7984bd0f5c152 /fs/internal.h | |
| parent | mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled (diff) | |
| download | linux-4eff96dd5283a102e0c1cac95247090be74a38ed.tar.xz linux-4eff96dd5283a102e0c1cac95247090be74a38ed.zip | |
writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
Commit 169ebd90131b ("writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread")
removed iget-iput pair from inode writeback. As a side effect, inodes
that are dirty during iput_final() call won't be ever added to inode LRU
(iput_final() doesn't add dirty inodes to LRU and later when the inode
is cleaned there's noone to add the inode there). Thus inodes are
effectively unreclaimable until someone looks them up again.
The practical effect of this bug is limited by the fact that inodes are
pinned by a dentry for long enough that the inode gets cleaned. But
still the bug can have nasty consequences leading up to OOM conditions
under certain circumstances. Following can easily reproduce the
problem:
for (( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )); do
mkdir $i
for (( j = 0; j < 1000; j++ )); do
touch $i/$j
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
done
done
then one needs to run 'sync; ls -lR' to make inodes reclaimable again.
We fix the issue by inserting unused clean inodes into the LRU after
writeback finishes in inode_sync_complete().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/internal.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/internal.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h index 916b7cbf3e3e..2f6af7f645eb 100644 --- a/fs/internal.h +++ b/fs/internal.h @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ extern int open_check_o_direct(struct file *f); * inode.c */ extern spinlock_t inode_sb_list_lock; +extern void inode_add_lru(struct inode *inode); /* * fs-writeback.c |