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SubjectRe: [PATCH] memcg: do not call reclaim if !__GFP_WAIT
On Thu 28-05-15 12:59:34, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 20:26:06 +0300 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> wrote:
>
> > When trimming memcg consumption excess (see memory.high), we call
> > try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages without checking if we are allowed to sleep
> > in the current context, which can result in a deadlock. Fix this.
>
> Why does it deadlock? try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() is passed the
> gfp_mask and should honour its __GFP_WAIT setting?

The only instance of __GFP_WAIT check in vmscan code is in zone_reclaim.
Page allocations and memcg reclaim avoids calling reclaim if __GFP_WAIT
is not set. Maybe we can move the check to do_try_to_free_pages?

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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