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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 16/70] mm, vmscan: clear PGDAT_WRITEBACK when zone is balanced
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:41:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180917211650.531450671@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180917211649.099135838@linuxfoundation.org>

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

commit c2f83143f1c67d186520b72b6cefbf0aa07a34ee upstream.

Hillf Danton pointed out that since commit 1d82de618dd ("mm, vmscan:
make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes") that PGDAT_WRITEBACK is no
longer cleared.

It was not noticed as triggering it requires pages under writeback to
cycle twice through the LRU and before kswapd gets stalled.
Historically, such issues tended to occur on small machines writing
heavily to slow storage such as a USB stick.

Once kswapd stalls, direct reclaim stalls may be higher but due to the
fact that memory pressure is required, it would not be very noticable.

Michal Hocko suggested removing the flag entirely but the conservative
fix is to restore the intended PGDAT_WRITEBACK behaviour and clear the
flag when a suitable zone is balanced.

Fixes: 1d82de618ddd ("mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203203222.gq7hk66yc36lpgtb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3123,6 +3123,7 @@ static bool zone_balanced(struct zone *z
 	 */
 	clear_bit(PGDAT_CONGESTED, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags);
 	clear_bit(PGDAT_DIRTY, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags);
+	clear_bit(PGDAT_WRITEBACK, &zone->zone_pgdat->flags);
 
 	return true;
 }



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-17 22:41 [PATCH 4.9 00/70] 4.9.128-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 01/70] i2c: xiic: Make the start and the byte count write atomic Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 02/70] i2c: i801: fix DNVs SMBCTRL register offset Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 03/70] KVM: s390: vsie: copy wrapping keys to right place Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 04/70] ALSA: hda - Fix cancel_work_sync() stall from jackpoll work Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 05/70] cfq: Give a chance for arming slice idle timer in case of group_idle Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 06/70] kthread: Fix use-after-free if kthread fork fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 07/70] kthread: fix boot hang (regression) on MIPS/OpenRISC Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 08/70] staging: rt5208: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in xd_copy_page Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 09/70] staging/rts5208: Fix read overflow in memcpy Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 10/70] IB/rxe: do not copy extra stack memory to skb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 11/70] block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 12/70] nl80211: fix null-ptr dereference on invalid mesh configuration Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 13/70] locking/rwsem-xadd: Fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 14/70] selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 15/70] locking/osq_lock: Fix osq_lock queue corruption Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 17/70] mm: remove seemingly spurious reclaimability check from laptop_mode gating Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 18/70] ARC: [plat-axs*]: Enable SWAP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 19/70] misc: mic: SCIF Fix scif_get_new_port() error handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 20/70] ethtool: Remove trailing semicolon for static inline Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 21/70] Bluetooth: h5: Fix missing dependency on BT_HCIUART_SERDEV Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 22/70] gpio: tegra: Move driver registration to subsys_init level Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 23/70] net: phy: Fix the register offsets in Broadcom iProc mdio mux driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 24/70] scsi: target: fix __transport_register_session locking Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 25/70] md/raid5: fix data corruption of replacements after originals dropped Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:41 ` [PATCH 4.9 26/70] timers: Clear timer_base::must_forward_clk with timer_base::lock held Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 27/70] misc: ti-st: Fix memory leak in the error path of probe() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 28/70] uio: potential double frees if __uio_register_device() fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 29/70] tty: rocket: Fix possible buffer overwrite on register_PCI Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 30/70] f2fs: do not set free of current section Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 31/70] perf tools: Allow overriding MAX_NR_CPUS at compile time Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 32/70] NFSv4.0 fix client reference leak in callback Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 33/70] macintosh/via-pmu: Add missing mmio accessors Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 34/70] ath9k: report tx status on EOSP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 35/70] ath9k_hw: fix channel maximum power level test Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 36/70] ath10k: prevent active scans on potential unusable channels Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 37/70] wlcore: Set rx_status boottime_ns field on rx Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 38/70] MIPS: Fix ISA virt/bus conversion for non-zero PHYS_OFFSET Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 39/70] ata: libahci: Correct setting of DEVSLP register Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 40/70] scsi: 3ware: fix return 0 on the error path of probe Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 41/70] ath10k: disable bundle mgmt tx completion event support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 42/70] Bluetooth: hidp: Fix handling of strncpy for hid->name information Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 43/70] x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 44/70] gpio: ml-ioh: Fix buffer underwrite on probe error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 45/70] net: mvneta: fix mtu change on port without link Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 46/70] f2fs: try grabbing node page lock aggressively in sync scenario Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 47/70] f2fs: fix to skip GC if type in SSA and SIT is inconsistent Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 48/70] tpm_tis_spi: Pass the SPI IRQ down to the driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 49/70] tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: switch to i2c_lock_bus(..., I2C_LOCK_SEGMENT) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 50/70] f2fs: fix to do sanity check with reserved blkaddr of inline inode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 51/70] MIPS: Octeon: add missing of_node_put() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 52/70] MIPS: generic: fix " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 53/70] net: dcb: For wild-card lookups, use priority -1, not 0 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 54/70] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - only use first T9 instance Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 55/70] media: s5p-mfc: Fix buffer look up in s5p_mfc_handle_frame_{new, copy_time} functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 56/70] partitions/aix: append null character to print data from disk Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 57/70] partitions/aix: fix usage of uninitialized lv_info and lvname structures Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 58/70] media: helene: fix xtal frequency setting at power on Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 59/70] f2fs: Fix uninitialized return in f2fs_ioc_shutdown() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 60/70] iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Fix allocation in atomic context Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 61/70] mfd: ti_am335x_tscadc: Fix struct clk memory leak Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 62/70] f2fs: fix to do sanity check with {sit,nat}_ver_bitmap_bytesize Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 63/70] NFSv4.1: Fix a potential layoutget/layoutrecall deadlock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 64/70] MIPS: WARN_ON invalid DMA cache maintenance, not BUG_ON Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 65/70] RDMA/cma: Do not ignore net namespace for unbound cm_id Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 66/70] xhci: Fix use-after-free in xhci_free_virt_device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 67/70] netfilter: x_tables: avoid stack-out-of-bounds read in xt_copy_counters_from_user Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 68/70] mtd: ubi: wl: Fix error return code in ubi_wl_init() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 69/70] autofs: fix autofs_sbi() does not check super block type Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 22:42 ` [PATCH 4.9 70/70] mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-09-17 23:59 ` [PATCH 4.9 00/70] 4.9.128-stable review Nathan Chancellor
2018-09-18 16:20 ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-18 16:54 ` Naresh Kamboju

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