From 1c7e7f6c0703d03af6bcd5ccc11fc15d23e5ecbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaditya Kumar Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:48:07 -0700 Subject: mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop() Offlining memory may block forever, waiting for kswapd() to wake up because kswapd() does not check the event kthread->should_stop before sleeping. The proper pattern, from Documentation/memory-barriers.txt, is: --- waker --- event_indicated = 1; wake_up_process(event_daemon); --- sleeper --- for (;;) { set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); if (event_indicated) break; schedule(); } set_current_state() may be wrapped by: prepare_to_wait(); In the kswapd() case, event_indicated is kthread->should_stop. === offlining memory (waker) === kswapd_stop() kthread_stop() kthread->should_stop = 1 wake_up_process() wait_for_completion() === kswapd_try_to_sleep (sleeper) === kswapd_try_to_sleep() prepare_to_wait() . . schedule() . . finish_wait() The schedule() needs to be protected by a test of kthread->should_stop, which is wrapped by kthread_should_stop(). Reproducer: Do heavy file I/O in background. Do a memory offline/online in a tight loop Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 661576324c7f..66e431060c05 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -2688,7 +2688,10 @@ static void kswapd_try_to_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, int classzone_idx) * them before going back to sleep. */ set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_normal_threshold); - schedule(); + + if (!kthread_should_stop()) + schedule(); + set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pgdat, calculate_pressure_threshold); } else { if (remaining) -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151