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| author | Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> | 2012-10-08 16:33:39 -0700 | 
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-09 16:22:59 +0900 | 
| commit | 5a883813845a2bb5ed2bd8c9240736c0740b156f (patch) | |
| tree | 86d5b34fb76870923d0c2b4b5ebd72972b15b654 /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | 082708072a4250f5c4dbc62065e7af93f5e45646 (diff) | |
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memory-hotplug: fix zone stat mismatch
During memory-hotplug, I found NR_ISOLATED_[ANON|FILE] are increasing,
causing the kernel to hang.  When the system doesn't have enough free
pages, it enters reclaim but never reclaim any pages due to
too_many_isolated()==true and loops forever.
The cause is that when we do memory-hotadd after memory-remove,
__zone_pcp_update() clears a zone's ZONE_STAT_ITEMS in setup_pageset()
although the vm_stat_diff of all CPUs still have values.
In addtion, when we offline all pages of the zone, we reset them in
zone_pcp_reset without draining so we loss some zone stat item.
Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 7 | 
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 9b8e6243a52..5485f0ef4ec 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5916,6 +5916,7 @@ static int __meminit __zone_pcp_update(void *data)  		local_irq_save(flags);  		if (pcp->count > 0)  			free_pcppages_bulk(zone, pcp->count, pcp); +		drain_zonestat(zone, pset);  		setup_pageset(pset, batch);  		local_irq_restore(flags);  	} @@ -5932,10 +5933,16 @@ void __meminit zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone)  void zone_pcp_reset(struct zone *zone)  {  	unsigned long flags; +	int cpu; +	struct per_cpu_pageset *pset;  	/* avoid races with drain_pages()  */  	local_irq_save(flags);  	if (zone->pageset != &boot_pageset) { +		for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { +			pset = per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu); +			drain_zonestat(zone, pset); +		}  		free_percpu(zone->pageset);  		zone->pageset = &boot_pageset;  	}  |