[PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressure
Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that
eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even
when there is still a lot of swap free.
The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap
token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the
system that is swappable.
Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could
simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we
don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds.
This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 6389cda..491ac35 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
* repeatedly from either page_referenced_anon or page_referenced_file.
*/
static int page_referenced_one(struct page *page,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned int *mapcount, int ignore_token)
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned int *mapcount)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
unsigned long address;
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@
/* Pretend the page is referenced if the task has the
swap token and is in the middle of a page fault. */
- if (mm != current->mm && !ignore_token && has_swap_token(mm) &&
+ if (mm != current->mm && has_swap_token(mm) &&
rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem))
referenced++;
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
return referenced;
}
-static int page_referenced_anon(struct page *page, int ignore_token)
+static int page_referenced_anon(struct page *page)
{
unsigned int mapcount;
struct anon_vma *anon_vma;
@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@
mapcount = page_mapcount(page);
list_for_each_entry(vma, &anon_vma->head, anon_vma_node) {
- referenced += page_referenced_one(page, vma, &mapcount,
- ignore_token);
+ referenced += page_referenced_one(page, vma, &mapcount);
if (!mapcount)
break;
}
@@ -354,7 +353,7 @@
*
* This function is only called from page_referenced for object-based pages.
*/
-static int page_referenced_file(struct page *page, int ignore_token)
+static int page_referenced_file(struct page *page)
{
unsigned int mapcount;
struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
@@ -392,8 +391,7 @@
referenced++;
break;
}
- referenced += page_referenced_one(page, vma, &mapcount,
- ignore_token);
+ referenced += page_referenced_one(page, vma, &mapcount);
if (!mapcount)
break;
}
@@ -410,13 +408,10 @@
* Quick test_and_clear_referenced for all mappings to a page,
* returns the number of ptes which referenced the page.
*/
-int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked, int ignore_token)
+int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked)
{
int referenced = 0;
- if (!swap_token_default_timeout)
- ignore_token = 1;
-
if (page_test_and_clear_young(page))
referenced++;
@@ -425,15 +420,14 @@
if (page_mapped(page) && page->mapping) {
if (PageAnon(page))
- referenced += page_referenced_anon(page, ignore_token);
+ referenced += page_referenced_anon(page);
else if (is_locked)
- referenced += page_referenced_file(page, ignore_token);
+ referenced += page_referenced_file(page);
else if (TestSetPageLocked(page))
referenced++;
else {
if (page->mapping)
- referenced += page_referenced_file(page,
- ignore_token);
+ referenced += page_referenced_file(page);
unlock_page(page);
}
}