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thp: freeze khugepaged and ksmd

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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>
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Andrea Arcangeli
2011-01-13 15:47:10 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8ee53820ed
commit 878aee7d6b
2 changed files with 18 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -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());
}
}