Michal Hocko wrote:
> 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(-)
> 

I didn't know http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151021130323.gc8...@dhcp22.suse.cz
was forgotten. Anyway,

Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>

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