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Michal Hocko 15f570bf3d mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at should_reclaim_retry() 
Tetsuo Handa has reported that it is possible to bypass the short sleep
for PF_WQ_WORKER threads which was introduced by commit 373ccbe592
("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make
any progress") and lock up the system if OOM.

The primary reason is that WQ_MEM_RECLAIM WQs are not guaranteed to run
even when they have a rescuer available.  Those workers might be essential
for reclaim to make a forward progress, however.  If we are too unlucky
all the allocations requests can get stuck waiting for a WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
work item and the system is essentially stuck in an OOM condition without
much hope to move on.  Tetsuo has seen the reclaim stuck on
drain_local_pages_wq or xlog_cil_push_work (xfs).  There might be others.

Since should_reclaim_retry() should be a natural reschedule point,
let's do the short sleep for PF_WQ_WORKER threads unconditionally in
order to guarantee that other pending work items are started.  This
will workaround this problem and it is less fragile than hunting down
when the sleep is missed.  Having a single sleeping point is more
robust.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow comment to 80 cols to save a couple of lines]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827135101.15700-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Debugged-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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arch xtensa: use generic vga.h 2018-10-26 16:25:18 -07:00
block for-4.20/block-20181021 2018-10-22 17:46:08 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-10-25 16:43:35 -07:00
Documentation slub: extend slub debug to handle multiple slabs 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
drivers Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fs/iomap.c: change return type to vm_fault_t 2018-10-26 16:25:18 -07:00
include mm: don't miss the last page because of round-off error 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
init Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 15:00:03 +01:00
ipc Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-25 11:14:36 -07:00
kernel mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
lib lib/test_kasan.c: add tests for several string/memory API functions 2018-10-26 16:25:18 -07:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm,page_alloc: PF_WQ_WORKER threads must sleep at should_reclaim_retry() 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-10-25 17:15:46 -07:00
samples Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
scripts scripts/tags.sh: add DECLARE_HASHTABLE() 2018-10-26 16:25:18 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-loadpin' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-10-25 13:32:00 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.20 2018-10-25 09:00:15 -07:00
tools USB/PHY patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 08:14:13 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM updates for v4.20 2018-10-25 17:57:35 -07:00
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.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 13:08:53 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.