mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow
authorVinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:59:39 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 05:37:25 +0000 (06:37 +0100)
commit66f43a5768799c1b33fde22fe2231645bb743e0f
tree3d455dfe5677a5adf359e9d7bb9e6fb2e18ac360
parent612e4679b865ed0bb7cdf06f71cd2e59d181f572
mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow

commit e1587a4945408faa58d0485002c110eb2454740c upstream.

At the end of a window period, if the reclaimed pages is greater than
scanned, an unsigned underflow can result in a huge pressure value and
thus a critical event.  Reclaimed pages is found to go higher than
scanned because of the addition of reclaimed slab pages to reclaimed in
shrink_node without a corresponding increment to scanned pages.

Minchan Kim mentioned that this can also happen in the case of a THP
page where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed could be 512.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486641577-11685-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Cc: Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/vmpressure.c