[PATCH] oom: use unreclaimable info
__alloc_pages currently starts shooting if page reclaim has failed to free up
swap_cluster_max pages in one run through the priorities. This is not always
a good indicator on its own, so make use of the all_unreclaimable logic as
well: don't consider going OOM until all zones we're interested in are
unreclaimable.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 1618058..ba18d0c 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
int swap_cluster_max;
int swappiness;
+
+ int all_unreclaimable;
};
/*
@@ -925,6 +927,7 @@
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
int i;
+ sc->all_unreclaimable = 1;
for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
struct zone *zone = zones[i];
@@ -941,6 +944,8 @@
if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
continue; /* Let kswapd poll it */
+ sc->all_unreclaimable = 0;
+
nr_reclaimed += shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
}
return nr_reclaimed;
@@ -1021,6 +1026,9 @@
if (sc.nr_scanned && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2)
blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
}
+ /* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
+ if (!sc.all_unreclaimable)
+ ret = 1;
out:
for (i = 0; zones[i] != 0; i++) {
struct zone *zone = zones[i];