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Jan Kara 0a417b8dc1 xfs: Timely free truncated dirty pages
Commit 99579ccec4 "xfs: skip dirty pages in ->releasepage()" started
to skip dirty pages in xfs_vm_releasepage() which also has the effect
that if a dirty page is truncated, it does not get freed by
block_invalidatepage() and is lingering in LRU list waiting for reclaim.
So a simple loop like:

while true; do
	dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=100
	rm file
done

will keep using more and more memory until we hit low watermarks and
start pagecache reclaim which will eventually reclaim also the truncate
pages. Keeping these truncated (and thus never usable) pages in memory
is just a waste of memory, is unnecessarily stressing page cache
reclaim, and reportedly also leads to anonymous mmap(2) returning ENOMEM
prematurely.

So instead of just skipping dirty pages in xfs_vm_releasepage(), return
to old behavior of skipping them only if they have delalloc or unwritten
buffers and fix the spurious warnings by warning only if the page is
clean.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
CC: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
CC: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Petr Tůma <petr.tuma@d3s.mff.cuni.cz>
Fixes: 99579ccec4
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2017-01-11 10:20:04 -08:00
arch KVM fixes for v4.10-rc3 2017-01-06 15:27:17 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-01-04 09:03:37 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation VFIO fixes for v4.10-rc3 2017-01-06 11:19:03 -08:00
drivers USB fixes for 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 11:42:04 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs xfs: Timely free truncated dirty pages 2017-01-11 10:20:04 -08:00
include USB fixes for 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 11:42:04 -08:00
init mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit 2016-12-25 11:54:48 -08:00
ipc ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'stable-4.10' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2017-01-05 23:06:06 -08:00
lib mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinker 2017-01-07 18:22:40 -08:00
mm mm: workingset: fix use-after-free in shadow node shrinker 2017-01-07 18:22:40 -08:00
net drop_monitor: consider inserted data in genlmsg_end 2017-01-03 11:09:44 -05:00
samples vfio-mdev: fix some error codes in the sample code 2017-01-04 08:32:23 -07:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound Revert "ALSA: firewire-lib: change structure member with proper type" 2017-01-05 08:39:47 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'turbostat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2016-12-25 14:01:28 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-12-25 14:30:04 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS Char/Misc fixes for 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 11:37:44 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc3 2017-01-08 14:18:17 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.