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>

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 17f5403..845e58b 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zone, int sync, long timeout)
                 * here rather than calling cond_resched().
                 */
                if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
-                       schedule_timeout(1);
+                       schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
                else
                        cond_resched();