From 635697c663f38106063d5659f0cf2e45afcd4bb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:33:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling A shrinker function can return -1, means that it cannot do anything without a risk of deadlock. For example prune_super() does this if it cannot grab a superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0. Currently we interpret this -1 as a ULONG_MAX size shrinker and evaluate `total_scan' according to this. So the next time around this shrinker can cause really big pressure. Let's skip such shrinkers instead. Also make total_scan signed, otherwise the check (total_scan < 0) below never works. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed