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[PATCH 3.12 18/60] mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow

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  [PATCH 3.12 18/60] mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> - 2017-03-14 14:40 +0100

#1600388 — [PATCH 3.12 18/60] mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow

From: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 mm/vmpressure.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index c98b14ee69d6..7ef7172d44f8 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -111,9 +111,16 @@ static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_calc_level(unsigned long scanned,
 						    unsigned long reclaimed)
 {
 	unsigned long scale = scanned + reclaimed;
-	unsigned long pressure;
+	unsigned long pressure = 0;
 
 	/*
+	 * reclaimed can be greater than scanned in cases
+	 * like THP, where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed
+	 * could be 512
+	 */
+	if (reclaimed >= scanned)
+		goto out;
+	/*
 	 * We calculate the ratio (in percents) of how many pages were
 	 * scanned vs. reclaimed in a given time frame (window). Note that
 	 * time is in VM reclaimer's "ticks", i.e. number of pages
@@ -123,6 +130,7 @@ static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_calc_level(unsigned long scanned,
 	pressure = scale - (reclaimed * scale / scanned);
 	pressure = pressure * 100 / scale;
 
+out:
 	pr_debug("%s: %3lu  (s: %lu  r: %lu)\n", __func__, pressure,
 		 scanned, reclaimed);
 
-- 
2.12.0

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