From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1{3,4,5pre*} VM bug found
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:15:43 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001251906370.14600-100000@d251.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001250421090.482-100000@mirkwood.dummy.home>
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>calls __get_free_pages(). When we're (almost) out of
>memory, the process will wake up kswapd and try to
You'll block also before to go out of memory if the allocation rate is
high enough.
>In 2.2.15pre4 or when the call to try_to_free_pages()
>generates disk I/O, the task will call schedule().
>Since the task state != TASK_RUNNABLE, schedule() will
>immedately remove it from the run queue ...
Before calling schedule() you always gets registered in a waitqueue so
you can't deadlock or wait too much.
If something there is the opposite problem. If you do:
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
get_page(GFP_KERNEL);
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
schedule();
then at point XXXXXXX you may become a task running and you don't block
anymore.
Andrea
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-25 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-25 3:27 Rik van Riel
2000-01-25 18:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-01-26 0:48 ` Rik van Riel
2000-01-27 19:09 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-01-27 19:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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