mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable

There is no reason why task in balance_dirty_pages() shouldn't be killable
and it helps in recovering from some error conditions (like when filesystem
goes in error state and cannot accept writeback anymore but we still want to
kill processes using it to be able to unmount it).

There will be follow up patches to further abort the generic_perform_write()
and other filesystem write loops, to avoid large write + SIGKILL combination
exceeding the dirty limit and possibly strange OOM.

Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index a3278f0..79c3441 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ pause:
                                          pages_dirtied,
                                          pause,
                                          start_time);
-               __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+               __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
                io_schedule_timeout(pause);
 
                dirty_thresh = hard_dirty_limit(dirty_thresh);
@@ -1145,6 +1145,9 @@ pause:
                 */
                if (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh)
                        break;
+
+               if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+                       break;
        }
 
        if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)