linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 270/389] dm writecache: set a default MAX_WRITEBACK

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:25:48 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 270/389] dm writecache: set a default MAX_WRITEBACK_JOBS

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit ca7dc242e358e46d963b32f9d9dd829785a9e957 upstream.

dm-writecache has the capability to limit the number of writeback jobs
in progress. However, this feature was off by default. As such there
were some out-of-memory crashes observed when lowering the low
watermark while the cache is full.

This commit enables writeback limit by default. It is set to 256MiB or
1/16 of total system memory, whichever is smaller.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/md/dm-writecache.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-writecache.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #define HIGH_WATERMARK			50
 #define LOW_WATERMARK			45
-#define MAX_WRITEBACK_JOBS		0
+#define MAX_WRITEBACK_JOBS		min(0x10000000 / PAGE_SIZE, totalram_pages() / 16)
 #define ENDIO_LATENCY			16
 #define WRITEBACK_LATENCY		64
 #define AUTOCOMMIT_BLOCKS_SSD		65536