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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2012-07-11 23:02:13 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-12 01:04:43 +0200
commit4bf2bba3750f10aa9e62e6949bc7e8329990f01b (patch)
tree8e0eb9acc97fed0ea070dda3f97326ee0fbd9316 /mm
parentc/r: prctl: less paranoid prctl_set_mm_exe_file() (diff)
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mm, thp: abort compaction if migration page cannot be charged to memcg
If page migration cannot charge the temporary page to the memcg, migrate_pages() will return -ENOMEM. This isn't considered in memory compaction however, and the loop continues to iterate over all pageblocks trying to isolate and migrate pages. If a small number of very large memcgs happen to be oom, however, these attempts will mostly be futile leading to an enormous amout of cpu consumption due to the page migration failures. This patch will short circuit and fail memory compaction if migrate_pages() returns -ENOMEM. COMPACT_PARTIAL is returned in case some migrations were successful so that the page allocator will retry. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> 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/compaction.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 7ea259d82a99..2f42d9528539 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -701,8 +701,11 @@ static int compact_zone(struct zone *zone, struct compact_control *cc)
if (err) {
putback_lru_pages(&cc->migratepages);
cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
+ if (err == -ENOMEM) {
+ ret = COMPACT_PARTIAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
}
-
}
out: