mm: make unreserve highatomic functions reliable
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:42:14 +0000 (16:42 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:55:07 +0000 (18:55 -0800)
commit29fac03bef729ef6f9fba5be56f8554093813c39
tree32d051e15d176c8cb58cd8c11f67dc6e2e5621ca
parent04c8716f7b0075def05dc05646e2408f318167d2
mm: make unreserve highatomic functions reliable

Currently, unreserve_highatomic_pageblock bails out if it found
highatomic pageblock regardless of really moving free pages from the one
so that it could mitigate unreserve logic's goal which saves OOM of a
process.

This patch makes unreserve functions bail out only if it moves some
pages out of !highatomic free list to avoid such false positive.

Another potential problem is that by race between page freeing and
reserve highatomic function, pages could be in highatomic free list even
though the pageblock is !high atomic migratetype.  In that case,
unreserve_highatomic_pageblock can be void if count of highatomic
reserve is less than pageblock_nr_pages.  We could solve it simply via
draining all of reserved pages before the OOM.  It would have a
safeguard role to exhuast reserved pages before converging to OOM.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476259429-18279-5-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Sangseok Lee <sangseok.lee@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_alloc.c