From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>

zone_reclaimable_pages is used in should_reclaim_retry which uses it to
calculate the target for the watermark check. This means that precise
numbers are important for the correct decision. zone_reclaimable_pages
uses zone_page_state which can contain stale data with per-cpu diffs
not synced yet (the last vmstat_update might have run 1s in the past).

Use zone_page_state_snapshot in zone_reclaimable_pages instead. None
of the current callers is in a hot path where getting the precise value
(which involves per-cpu iteration) would cause an unreasonable overhead.

Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 489212252cd6..9145e3f89eab 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -196,21 +196,21 @@ unsigned long zone_reclaimable_pages(struct zone *zone)
 {
        unsigned long nr;
 
-       nr = zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
-            zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
-            zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
+       nr = zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ACTIVE_FILE) +
+            zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_INACTIVE_FILE) +
+            zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ISOLATED_FILE);
 
        if (get_nr_swap_pages() > 0)
-               nr += zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
-                     zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON) +
-                     zone_page_state(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
+               nr += zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ACTIVE_ANON) +
+                     zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_INACTIVE_ANON) +
+                     zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_ISOLATED_ANON);
 
        return nr;
 }
 
 bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
 {
-       return zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED) <
+       return zone_page_state_snapshot(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED) <
                zone_reclaimable_pages(zone) * 6;
 }
 
-- 
2.7.0.rc3

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