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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 8ed2ffd963c5..7340353f8aea 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -957,8 +957,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(congestion_wait); * jiffies for either a BDI to exit congestion of the given @sync queue * or a write to complete. * - * In the absence of zone congestion, cond_resched() is called to yield - * the processor if necessary but otherwise does not sleep. + * In the absence of zone congestion, a short sleep or a cond_resched is + * performed to yield the processor and to allow other subsystems to make + * a forward progress. * * The return value is 0 if the sleep is for the full timeout. Otherwise, * it is the number of jiffies that were still remaining when the function @@ -978,7 +979,19 @@ long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zone, int sync, long timeout) */ if (atomic_read(&nr_wb_congested[sync]) == 0 || !test_bit(ZONE_CONGESTED, &zone->flags)) { - cond_resched(); + + /* + * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ + * context and the current implementation of the WQ + * concurrency control doesn't recognize that a particular + * WQ is congested if the worker thread is looping without + * ever sleeping. Therefore we have to do a short sleep + * here rather than calling cond_resched(). + */ + if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) + schedule_timeout(1); + else + cond_resched(); /* In case we scheduled, work out time remaining */ ret = timeout - (jiffies - start); diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 2ec34342a87b..0d5712b0206c 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1379,6 +1379,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_vmstat_file_operations = { #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */ #ifdef CONFIG_SMP +static struct workqueue_struct *vmstat_wq; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, vmstat_work); int sysctl_stat_interval __read_mostly = HZ; static cpumask_var_t cpu_stat_off; @@ -1391,7 +1392,7 @@ static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w) * to occur in the future. Keep on running the * update worker thread. */ - schedule_delayed_work_on(smp_processor_id(), + queue_delayed_work_on(smp_processor_id(), vmstat_wq, this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work), round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); } else { @@ -1460,7 +1461,7 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w) if (need_update(cpu) && cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, cpu_stat_off)) - schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, + queue_delayed_work_on(cpu, vmstat_wq, &per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu), 0); put_online_cpus(); @@ -1549,6 +1550,7 @@ static int __init setup_vmstat(void) start_shepherd_timer(); cpu_notifier_register_done(); + vmstat_wq = alloc_workqueue("vmstat", WQ_FREEZABLE|WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS proc_create("buddyinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &fragmentation_file_operations); |