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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2020-04-01 21:10:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-02 09:35:31 -0700
commit6923aa0d8c629a7853822626877dcb11f4f1d354 (patch)
tree6057c6d23a9dc137a70aef7358bb6c26222306f1 /kernel/sysctl.c
parent964b692daf3018ae4b45285c3bcbb2d897cb4b40 (diff)
downloadlinux-6923aa0d8c629a7853822626877dcb11f4f1d354.tar.gz
mm/compaction: Disable compact_unevictable_allowed on RT
Since commit 5bbe3547aa3ba ("mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages")
it is allowed to examine mlocked pages and compact them by default.  On
-RT even minor pagefaults are problematic because it may take a few 100us
to resolve them and until then the task is blocked.

Make compact_unevictable_allowed = 0 default and issue a warning on RT if
it is changed.

[bigeasy@linutronix.de: v5]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200319165536.ovi75tsr2seared4@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303202225.nhqc3v5gwlb7x6et@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c29
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index cb650bb9da68..8a176d8727a3 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ static int proc_do_cad_pid(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		  void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
 static int proc_taint(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 			       void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
+static int proc_dointvec_minmax_warn_RT_change(struct ctl_table *table,
+					       int write, void __user *buffer,
+					       size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);
+#endif
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PRINTK
@@ -1467,7 +1472,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.data		= &sysctl_compact_unevictable_allowed,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax_warn_RT_change,
 		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
 		.extra2		= SYSCTL_ONE,
 	},
@@ -2555,6 +2560,28 @@ int proc_dointvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return do_proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos, NULL, NULL);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPACTION
+static int proc_dointvec_minmax_warn_RT_change(struct ctl_table *table,
+					       int write, void __user *buffer,
+					       size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int ret, old;
+
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) || !write)
+		return proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+	old = *(int *)table->data;
+	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+	if (old != *(int *)table->data)
+		pr_warn_once("sysctl attribute %s changed by %s[%d]\n",
+			     table->procname, current->comm,
+			     task_pid_nr(current));
+	return ret;
+}
+#endif
+
 /**
  * proc_douintvec - read a vector of unsigned integers
  * @table: the sysctl table