Commit ff7283fa3a66823933991ad55a558a3a01d5ab27

Authored by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent ae41be3742

bugfix for memory cgroup controller: avoid !PageLRU page in mem_cgroup_isolate_pages

This patch makes mem_cgroup_isolate_pages() to be

  - ignore !PageLRU pages.
  - fixes the bug that isolation makes no progress if page_zone(page) != zone
    page once find. (just increment scan in this case.)

kswapd and memory migration removes a page from list when it handles
a page for reclaiming/migration.

Because __isolate_lru_page() doesn't moves page !PageLRU pages, it will
be safe to avoid touching !PageLRU() page and its page_cgroup.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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... ... @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@
250 250 unsigned long scan;
251 251 LIST_HEAD(pc_list);
252 252 struct list_head *src;
253   - struct page_cgroup *pc;
  253 + struct page_cgroup *pc, *tmp;
254 254  
255 255 if (active)
256 256 src = &mem_cont->active_list;
257 257  
... ... @@ -258,10 +258,17 @@
258 258 src = &mem_cont->inactive_list;
259 259  
260 260 spin_lock(&mem_cont->lru_lock);
261   - for (scan = 0; scan < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src); scan++) {
262   - pc = list_entry(src->prev, struct page_cgroup, lru);
  261 + scan = 0;
  262 + list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse(pc, tmp, src, lru) {
  263 + if (scan++ > nr_to_scan)
  264 + break;
263 265 page = pc->page;
264 266 VM_BUG_ON(!pc);
  267 +
  268 + if (unlikely(!PageLRU(page))) {
  269 + scan--;
  270 + continue;
  271 + }
265 272  
266 273 if (PageActive(page) && !active) {
267 274 __mem_cgroup_move_lists(pc, true);