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vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:02:59 +0000 (15:02 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:13:30 +0000 (15:13 +1100)
commit00af2170eb47222fefa73185352ae02f26a44cc3
tree824eeec2f206fcff4f69e979bdcb366542147a91
parent9b4325b546f95cbf862e97ea90bc1c99df04cd9d
vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling

A shrinker function can return -1, means that it cannot do anything
without a risk of deadlock.  For example prune_super() does this if it
cannot grab a superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0.  Currently we
interpret this -1 as a ULONG_MAX size shrinker and evaluate `total_scan'
according to this.  So the next time around this shrinker can cause really
big pressure.  Let's skip such shrinkers instead.

Also make total_scan signed, otherwise the check (total_scan < 0) below
never works.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c