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vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handling
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:40:58 +0000 (10:40 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:37:33 +0000 (15:37 +1100)
commit0aef64695ce7d0250fb7b3d3e7d4f19518b59e84
treeadfaeb2fa1d3d7c1bbb7df592174d5f064acd3ce
parentb2798e2e3477b160e950097dc6d2d0e0d8c7d077
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