mm, thp: khugepaged should scan when sleep value is written
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 23:58:56 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 21 May 2016 00:58:30 +0000 (17:58 -0700)
commitf0508977787b3bcfd54e82111ab50d6245b9f4df
tree2ee4d47b6d18ad76ddcb919fe3bd76f4d4e1bdc4
parenta53eaff8c1192bb5bdfda5deb484bc8f415c5dfd
mm, thp: khugepaged should scan when sleep value is written

If a large value is written to scan_sleep_millisecs, for example, that
period must lapse before khugepaged will wake up for periodic
collapsing.

If this value is tuned to 1 day, for example, and then re-tuned to its
default 10s, khugepaged will still wait for a day before scanning again.

This patch causes khugepaged to wakeup immediately when the value is
changed and then sleep until that value is rewritten or the new value
lapses.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1605181453200.4786@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c