mm: vmscan: evaluate the watermarks against the correct classzone
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:39:39 +0000 (15:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 9 Jul 2011 04:14:43 +0000 (21:14 -0700)
When deciding if kswapd is sleeping prematurely, the classzone is taken
into account but this is different to what balance_pgdat() and the
allocator are doing.  Specifically, the DMA zone will be checked based on
the classzone used when waking kswapd which could be for a GFP_KERNEL or
GFP_HIGHMEM request.  The lowmem reserve limit kicks in, the watermark is
not met and kswapd thinks it's sleeping prematurely keeping kswapd awake in
error.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c

index a024586..a51b3c9 100644 (file)
@@ -2344,7 +2344,7 @@ static bool sleeping_prematurely(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
                }
 
                if (!zone_watermark_ok_safe(zone, order, high_wmark_pages(zone),
-                                                       classzone_idx, 0))
+                                                       i, 0))
                        all_zones_ok = false;
                else
                        balanced += zone->present_pages;