mm, vmstat: fix wrong WQ sleep when memory reclaim doesn't make any progress
authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Fri, 5 Feb 2016 23:36:30 +0000 (15:36 -0800)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:28:47 +0000 (14:28 +0000)
commit939f1e0d840ff8145db78ded0673b3207f49b959
tree9dfbdabef49c01704f4ecfb514925ab1afc01352
parent075ee9fb5e1ebfa5defc64746dfcbba28cf0ed5f
mm, vmstat: fix wrong WQ sleep when memory reclaim doesn't make any progress

commit 564e81a57f9788b1475127012e0fd44e9049e342 upstream.

Jan Stancek has reported that system occasionally hanging after "oom01"
testcase from LTP triggers OOM.  Guessing from a result that there is a
kworker thread doing memory allocation and the values between "Node 0
Normal free:" and "Node 0 Normal:" differs when hanging, vmstat is not
up-to-date for some reason.

According to commit 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to
discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress"), it meant to force
the kworker thread to take a short sleep, but it by error used
schedule_timeout(1).  We missed that schedule_timeout() in state
TASK_RUNNING doesn't do anything.

Fix it by using schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1) which forces the
kworker thread to take a short sleep in order to make sure that vmstat
is up-to-date.

Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Cristopher Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/backing-dev.c