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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:47:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:46 -0800
commit878aee7d6b5504e01b9caffce080e792b6b8d090 (patch)
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thp: freeze khugepaged and ksmd
It's unclear why schedule friendly kernel threads can't be taken away by the CPU through the scheduler itself. It's safer to stop them as they can trigger memory allocation, if kswapd also freezes itself to avoid generating I/O they have too. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/ksm.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 5e7d5d35ea82..e2b0afd0a031 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/hash.h>
+#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -1365,7 +1366,7 @@ static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int scan_npages)
struct rmap_item *rmap_item;
struct page *uninitialized_var(page);
- while (scan_npages--) {
+ while (scan_npages-- && likely(!freezing(current))) {
cond_resched();
rmap_item = scan_get_next_rmap_item(&page);
if (!rmap_item)
@@ -1383,6 +1384,7 @@ static int ksmd_should_run(void)
static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing)
{
+ set_freezable();
set_user_nice(current, 5);
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
@@ -1391,11 +1393,13 @@ static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing)
ksm_do_scan(ksm_thread_pages_to_scan);
mutex_unlock(&ksm_thread_mutex);
+ try_to_freeze();
+
if (ksmd_should_run()) {
schedule_timeout_interruptible(
msecs_to_jiffies(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs));
} else {
- wait_event_interruptible(ksm_thread_wait,
+ wait_event_freezable(ksm_thread_wait,
ksmd_should_run() || kthread_should_stop());
}
}