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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-04-01 02:23:31 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 19:59:15 +0400
commit327c0e968645f2601a43f5ea7c19c7b3a5fa0a34 (patch)
treeacc6789c120a6d5000ceebf51e690d14c6cfcacb /fs
parent2678958e1225f350806d90f211a3b475f64aee80 (diff)
downloadlinux-327c0e968645f2601a43f5ea7c19c7b3a5fa0a34.tar.xz
vmscan: fix it to take care of nodemask
try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low. The caller to alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages(). This can lead to unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where it is needed. This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to try_to_free_pages(). Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 0c14f8d52ee5..c77b848c3d43 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static void free_more_memory(void)
&zone);
if (zone)
try_to_free_pages(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_NOFS), 0,
- GFP_NOFS);
+ GFP_NOFS, NULL);
}
}