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| author | Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> | 2022-04-29 09:16:17 +0300 |
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| committer | akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-04-29 09:16:17 +0300 |
| commit | d56c15845a5493dbe9e8b77f63418bea117d1221 (patch) | |
| tree | e0d0de4845767d7d5b2ba5b4d86fc8b6795c8d6d /mm | |
| parent | 00bc102f82e0a0c70f1d4c9fdeb4c0cbc622d777 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d56c15845a5493dbe9e8b77f63418bea117d1221.tar.xz | |
mm: compaction: clean up comment for sched contention
Since commit cf66f0700c8f ("mm, compaction: do not consider a need to
reschedule as contention"), async compaction won't abort when scheduling
is needed. Correct the relevant comment accordingly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220418141253.24298-5-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Charan Teja Kalla <charante@codeaurora.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Pintu Kumar <pintu@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/internal.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index ee2ddf77191f..e839b26fb3d8 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -513,15 +513,12 @@ static bool compact_lock_irqsave(spinlock_t *lock, unsigned long *flags, * very heavily contended. The lock should be periodically unlocked to avoid * having disabled IRQs for a long time, even when there is nobody waiting on * the lock. It might also be that allowing the IRQs will result in - * need_resched() becoming true. If scheduling is needed, async compaction - * aborts. Sync compaction schedules. + * need_resched() becoming true. If scheduling is needed, compaction schedules. * Either compaction type will also abort if a fatal signal is pending. * In either case if the lock was locked, it is dropped and not regained. * - * Returns true if compaction should abort due to fatal signal pending, or - * async compaction due to need_resched() - * Returns false when compaction can continue (sync compaction might have - * scheduled) + * Returns true if compaction should abort due to fatal signal pending. + * Returns false when compaction can continue. */ static bool compact_unlock_should_abort(spinlock_t *lock, unsigned long flags, bool *locked, struct compact_control *cc) @@ -574,7 +571,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc, /* * Periodically drop the lock (if held) regardless of its * contention, to give chance to IRQs. Abort if fatal signal - * pending or async compaction detects need_resched() + * pending. */ if (!(blockpfn % SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) && compact_unlock_should_abort(&cc->zone->lock, flags, diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h index 69a5eabe0943..ddd09245a6db 100644 --- a/mm/internal.h +++ b/mm/internal.h @@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ struct compact_control { bool direct_compaction; /* False from kcompactd or /proc/... */ bool proactive_compaction; /* kcompactd proactive compaction */ bool whole_zone; /* Whole zone should/has been scanned */ - bool contended; /* Signal lock or sched contention */ + bool contended; /* Signal lock contention */ bool rescan; /* Rescanning the same pageblock */ bool alloc_contig; /* alloc_contig_range allocation */ }; |