vmscan: fix increasing nr_isolated incurred by putback unevictable pages

commit c54839a722a02818677bcabe57e957f0ce4f841d upstream.

reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() assumes that shrink_page_list() returns
number of pages removed from the candidate list.  But shrink_page_list()
puts back mlocked pages without passing it to caller and without
counting as nr_reclaimed.  This increases nr_isolated.

To fix this, this patch changes shrink_page_list() to pass unevictable
pages back to caller.  Caller will take care those pages.

Minchan said:

It fixes two issues.

1. With unevictable page, cma_alloc will be successful.

Exactly speaking, cma_alloc of current kernel will fail due to
unevictable pages.

2. fix leaking of NR_ISOLATED counter of vmstat

With it, too_many_isolated works.  Otherwise, it could make hang until
the process get SIGKILL.

Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0d024fc8aa8efee1d84e9f572ab8da8ae9a83680..1a17bd7c0ce582b1f1de89a5c0f9fd2f5ba9e611 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1153,7 +1153,7 @@ cull_mlocked:
                if (PageSwapCache(page))
                        try_to_free_swap(page);
                unlock_page(page);
-               putback_lru_page(page);
+               list_add(&page->lru, &ret_pages);
                continue;
 
 activate_locked: