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Kuo-Hsin Yang fb4b49278f drm/gem: Mark pinned pages as unevictable
The gem drivers use shmemfs to allocate backing storage for gem objects.
On Samsung Chromebook Plus, the drm/rockchip driver may call
rockchip_gem_get_pages -> drm_gem_get_pages -> shmem_read_mapping_page
to pin a lot of pages, breaking the page reclaim mechanism and causing
oom-killer invocation.

E.g. when the size of a zone is 3.9 GiB, the inactive_ratio is 5. If
active_anon / inactive_anon < 5 and all pages in the inactive_anon lru
are pinned, page reclaim would keep scanning inactive_anon lru without
reclaiming memory. It breaks page reclaim when the rockchip driver only
pins about 1/6 of the anon lru pages.

Mark these pinned pages as unevictable to avoid the premature oom-killer
invocation. See also similar patch on i915 driver [1].

[1]: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20181106132324.17390-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

Signed-off-by: Kuo-Hsin Yang <vovoy@chromium.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190108074517.209860-1-vovoy@chromium.org
2019-01-09 21:24:50 +00:00
Documentation drm/todo: Better defio support in the generic fbdev emulation 2019-01-08 09:03:52 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch arm64 fixes: 2018-11-24 09:42:32 -08:00
block SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done 2018-11-14 08:19:10 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: user - Zeroize whole structure given to user space 2018-11-09 17:35:43 +08:00
drivers drm/gem: Mark pinned pages as unevictable 2019-01-09 21:24:50 +00:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.20 2018-11-25 09:19:58 -08:00
include drm: make drm_framebuffer.h self contained 2019-01-09 22:11:28 +01:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel swiotlb: Skip cache maintenance on map error 2018-11-21 18:47:58 +01:00
lib XArray updates for 4.20-rc4 2018-11-24 18:44:01 -08:00
mm Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued 2018-11-20 13:14:08 +02:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-24 09:19:38 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts drm-misc-next for v4.21: 2018-11-29 10:28:49 +10:00
security selinux/stable-4.20 PR 20181115 2018-11-15 11:26:09 -06:00
sound Linux 4.20-rc4 2018-11-29 10:34:03 +10:00
tools Power management fixes for 4.20-rc4 2018-11-23 10:52:57 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: change Sparse's maintainer 2018-11-25 09:17:43 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: drm: Remove myself as drm-bridge maintainer 2018-12-18 11:42:03 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc4 2018-11-25 14:19:31 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.