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vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling
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A shrinker function can return -1, means that it cannot do anything
without a risk of deadlock.  For example prune_super() does this if it
cannot grab a superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0.  Currently we
interpret this -1 as a ULONG_MAX size shrinker and evaluate `total_scan'
according to this.  So the next time around this shrinker can cause
really big pressure.  Let's skip such shrinkers instead.

Also make total_scan signed, otherwise the check (total_scan < 0) below
never works.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 9, 2011
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9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions mm/vmscan.c
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Expand Up @@ -247,14 +247,18 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,

list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) {
unsigned long long delta;
unsigned long total_scan;
unsigned long max_pass;
long total_scan;
long max_pass;
int shrink_ret = 0;
long nr;
long new_nr;
long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch
: SHRINK_BATCH;

max_pass = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink, 0);
if (max_pass <= 0)
continue;

/*
* copy the current shrinker scan count into a local variable
* and zero it so that other concurrent shrinker invocations
Expand All @@ -265,7 +269,6 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrink,
} while (cmpxchg(&shrinker->nr, nr, 0) != nr);

total_scan = nr;
max_pass = do_shrinker_shrink(shrinker, shrink, 0);
delta = (4 * nr_pages_scanned) / shrinker->seeks;
delta *= max_pass;
do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1);
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