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 05:41:43 +0000 (06:41 +0100)
commit58d1dbb904ba9ce1f8ac99c5d210ad7bb14eed08
treefe371ebfa1ada514aeed02a9a78f2d6eaa97af6b
parentd1e8042628a31e28c8e92411ab83a28bd5e3f7c9
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