alistair23-linux/mm
Michal Hocko db73ee0d46 mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many_isolated for ever
Tetsuo Handa has reported[1][2][3] that direct reclaimers might get
stuck in too_many_isolated loop basically for ever because the last few
pages on the LRU lists are isolated by the kswapd which is stuck on fs
locks when doing the pageout or slab reclaim.  This in turn means that
there is nobody to actually trigger the oom killer and the system is
basically unusable.

too_many_isolated has been introduced by commit 35cd78156c ("vmscan:
throttle direct reclaim when too many pages are isolated already") to
prevent from pre-mature oom killer invocations because back then no
reclaim progress could indeed trigger the OOM killer too early.

But since the oom detection rework in commit 0a0337e0d1 ("mm, oom:
rework oom detection") the allocation/reclaim retry loop considers all
the reclaimable pages and throttles the allocation at that layer so we
can loosen the direct reclaim throttling.

Make shrink_inactive_list loop over too_many_isolated bounded and
returns immediately when the situation hasn't resolved after the first
sleep.

Replace congestion_wait by a simple schedule_timeout_interruptible
because we are not really waiting on the IO congestion in this path.

Please note that this patch can theoretically cause the OOM killer to
trigger earlier while there are many pages isolated for the reclaim
which makes progress only very slowly.  This would be obvious from the
oom report as the number of isolated pages are printed there.  If we
ever hit this should_reclaim_retry should consider those numbers in the
evaluation in one way or another.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201602092349.ACG81273.OSVtMJQHLOFOFF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201702212335.DJB30777.JOFMHSFtVLQOOF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
[3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201706300914.CEH95859.FMQOLVFHJFtOOS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp

[mhocko@suse.com: switch to uninterruptible sleep]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724065048.GB25221@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170710074842.23175-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
..
kasan Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-10 12:20:53 +02:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/balloon_compaction.c: don't zero ballooned pages 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
bootmem.c
cleancache.c fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:12 +02:00
cma.c cma: fix calculation of aligned offset 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
cma.h cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug.c: fix stack corruption due to sprintf usage 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
debug.c mm: make tlb_flush_pending global 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c x86/mm: Add support to access boot related data in the clear 2017-07-18 11:38:02 +02:00
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c dax: remove DAX code from page_cache_tree_insert() 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
frame_vector.c treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
frontswap.c
gup.c mm/gup: make __gup_device_* require THP 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
highmem.c
huge_memory.c Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: make huge_pte_offset() consistent and document behaviour 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hwpoison-inject.c mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists 2017-09-06 17:27:25 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm/kasan: add support for memory hotplug 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
kmemcheck.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
ksm.c mm: fix KSM data corruption 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: fix list_lru_count_node() to be race free 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm, madvise: ensure poisoned pages are removed from per-cpu lists 2017-08-31 16:33:15 -07:00
Makefile percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: reversed logic in memblock_discard() 2017-08-25 16:12:46 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
memory-failure.c x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages 2017-08-17 10:30:49 +02:00
memory.c mm: always flush VMA ranges affected by zap_page_range 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: fix use after free when calling get_mempolicy 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
mempool.c sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 2017-06-20 12:18:27 +02:00
memtest.c
migrate.c Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks 2017-08-20 13:26:27 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: fix overflow check in expand_upwards() 2017-07-14 15:05:12 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: kill invalidate_page 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c mm: migrate: prevent racy access to tlb_flush_pending 2017-08-10 15:54:07 -07:00
mremap.c mm/mremap: fail map duplication attempts for private mappings 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm: discard memblock data later 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
nommu.c mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill.c: add tracepoints for oom reaper-related events 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: memcontrol: fix NULL pointer crash in test_clear_page_writeback() 2017-08-18 15:32:01 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of zonelists_mutex 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_counter.c
page_ext.c mm, page_ext: periodically reschedule during page_ext_init() 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_io.c mm/page_io.c: fix oops during block io poll in swapin path 2017-08-02 17:16:11 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: unify new_node_page and alloc_migrate_target 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
page_owner.c mm, page_owner: don't grab zone->lock for init_pages_in_zone() 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
page_poison.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: fix early calls for spinlock in pcpu_stats 2017-06-21 13:53:52 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: resolve err may not be initialized in pcpu_alloc 2017-06-21 12:00:45 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mm/rmap: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:12:59 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
shmem.c mm, shmem: fix handling /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled 2017-08-25 16:12:46 -07:00
slab.c mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slab.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
slab_common.c mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
slob.c locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
slub.c mm/slub.c: add a naive detection of double free or corruption 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
sparse.c mm, sparse, page_ext: drop ugly N_HIGH_MEMORY branches for allocations 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
swap.c mm: swap: provide lru_add_drain_all_cpuslocked() 2017-07-10 16:32:33 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: don't disable preemption while taking the per-CPU cache 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
truncate.c mm/truncate.c: fix THP handling in invalidate_mapping_pages() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c
util.c mm: fix global NR_SLAB_.*CLAIMABLE counter reads 2017-08-10 15:54:06 -07:00
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: don't unconditonally use __GFP_HIGHMEM 2017-08-18 15:32:02 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm, vmscan: do not loop on too_many_isolated for ever 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: avoid taking zone lock in pagetypeinfo_showmixed() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: zs_page_migrate: skip unnecessary loops but not return -EBUSY if zspage is not inuse 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00