From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH rc5-mm1 1/3] mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:12:19 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803112108470.17067@blonde.site> (raw)
Memcgroups up against their limit were OOMing unjustifiably on x86_32
with highmem: pages ripe for freeing were not being found.
It's because the zonelist changes in vmscan.c now derive zone from gfp_mask,
and the gfp mask being passed into try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages is atuned
to allocating a struct page_cgroup (__GFP_HIGHMEM masked off), whereas here
we need to be scanning highmem zones.
Frankenstein a gfp_mask from GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE and the mask passed in.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
---
Same error was in -rc3-mm1, sorry for not sending fix in time for -rc5-mm1.
The error comes 1 or 4 patches earlier, but this patch atop 2.6.25-rc5-mm1
fits best just after
mm-have-zonelist-contains-structs-with-both-a-zone-pointer-and-zone_idx.patch
I've other GFP masking fixes or cleanups to come another day: this fixes
just one clear bug, peculiar to the -mm tree, orthogonal to the rest.
But two little do_try_to_free_pages cleanups follow on from this...
mm/vmscan.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- 2.6.25-rc5-mm1/mm/vmscan.c 2008-03-11 14:19:36.000000000 +0000
+++ linux/mm/vmscan.c 2008-03-11 20:09:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -1444,7 +1444,6 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct scan_control sc = {
- .gfp_mask = gfp_mask,
.may_writepage = !laptop_mode,
.may_swap = 1,
.swap_cluster_max = SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX,
@@ -1454,9 +1453,10 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pag
.isolate_pages = mem_cgroup_isolate_pages,
};
struct zonelist *zonelist;
- int target_zone = gfp_zonelist(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE);
- zonelist = &NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zonelists[target_zone];
+ sc.gfp_mask = (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK) |
+ (GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE & ~GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
+ zonelist = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zonelists;
if (do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, sc.gfp_mask, &sc))
return 1;
return 0;
next reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 21:12 Hugh Dickins [this message]
2008-03-11 21:14 ` [PATCH rc5-mm1 2/3] just return do_try_to_free_pages Hugh Dickins
2008-03-12 13:58 ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-11 21:16 ` [PATCH rc5-mm1 3/3] do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant Hugh Dickins
2008-03-12 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-12 7:38 ` [PATCH rc5-mm1 1/3] mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms Balbir Singh
2008-03-12 12:29 ` Mel Gorman
2008-03-12 13:34 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-12 13:55 ` Mel Gorman
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