thp: freeze khugepaged and ksmd
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:47:10 +0000 (15:47 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:32:46 +0000 (17:32 -0800)
It's unclear why schedule friendly kernel threads can't be taken away by
the CPU through the scheduler itself.  It's safer to stop them as they can
trigger memory allocation, if kswapd also freezes itself to avoid
generating I/O they have too.

Signed-off-by: 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
mm/ksm.c

Simple merge
diff --cc mm/ksm.c
Simple merge