linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: check zone->all_unreclaimable in all

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Date:	Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:20:57 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: check zone->all_unreclaimable in
 all_unreclaimable()

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:44:16PM +0300, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> Check zone->all_unreclaimable in all_unreclaimable(), otherwise the
> kernel may hang up, because shrink_zones() will do nothing, but
> all_unreclaimable() will say, that zone has reclaimable pages.
> 
> do_try_to_free_pages()
> 	shrink_zones()
> 		 for_each_zone
> 			if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
> 				continue
> 	if !all_unreclaimable(zonelist, sc)
> 		return 1
> 
> __alloc_pages_slowpath()
> retry:
> 	did_some_progress = do_try_to_free_pages(page)
> 	...
> 	if (!page && did_some_progress)
> 		retry;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 6771ea7..1c056f7 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -2002,6 +2002,8 @@ static bool all_unreclaimable(struct zonelist *zonelist,
>  
>  	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
>  			gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
> +		if (zone->all_unreclaimable)
> +			continue;
>  		if (!populated_zone(zone))
>  			continue;
>  		if (!cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall(zone, GFP_KERNEL))


zone_reclaimable checks it. Isn't it enough?
Does the hang up really happen or see it by code review?

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