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author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> | 2016-02-06 00:36:30 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-02-06 03:10:40 +0100 |
commit | 564e81a57f9788b1475127012e0fd44e9049e342 (patch) | |
tree | 6ed99c6e46c2133dc7ca7eb085a3f1a43407763a /mm | |
parent | vmstat: make vmstat_update deferrable (diff) | |
download | linux-564e81a57f9788b1475127012e0fd44e9049e342.tar.xz linux-564e81a57f9788b1475127012e0fd44e9049e342.zip |
mm, vmstat: fix wrong WQ sleep when memory reclaim doesn't make any progress
Jan Stancek has reported that system occasionally hanging after "oom01"
testcase from LTP triggers OOM. Guessing from a result that there is a
kworker thread doing memory allocation and the values between "Node 0
Normal free:" and "Node 0 Normal:" differs when hanging, vmstat is not
up-to-date for some reason.
According to commit 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to
discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress"), it meant to force
the kworker thread to take a short sleep, but it by error used
schedule_timeout(1). We missed that schedule_timeout() in state
TASK_RUNNING doesn't do anything.
Fix it by using schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) which forces the
kworker thread to take a short sleep in order to make sure that vmstat
is up-to-date.
Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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/backing-dev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index cc5d29d2da9b..926c76d56388 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zone, int sync, long timeout) * here rather than calling cond_resched(). */ if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) - schedule_timeout(1); + schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1); else cond_resched(); |