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Peter W Morreale a56ed66304 mm: fix pdflush thread creation upper bound 
Fix a race on creating pdflush threads.  Without the patch, it is possible
to create more than MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS threads, and this has been
observed in practice on IO loaded SMP machines.

The fix involves moving the lock around to protect the check against the
thread count and correctly dealing with thread creation failure.

This fix also _mostly_ repairs a race condition on how quickly the threads
are created.  The original intent was to create a pdflush thread (up to
the max allowed) every second.  Without this patch is is possible to
create NCPUS pdflush threads concurrently.  The 'mostly' caveat is because
an assumption is made that thread creation will be successful.  If we fail
to create the thread, the miss is not considered fatal.  (we will try
again in 1 second)

Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07 08:31:03 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c percpu: __percpu_depopulate_mask can take a const mask 2009-04-06 13:44:15 -07:00
backing-dev.c block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based 2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem, x86: further fixes for arch-specific bootmem wrapping 2009-03-01 16:06:56 +09:00
bounce.c bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list 2008-12-29 08:29:52 +01:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special cases 2009-01-14 14:15:18 +01:00
failslab.c kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c 2009-04-03 12:23:01 +02:00
filemap.c Staging: pohmelfs: kconfig/makefile and vfs changes. 2009-04-03 14:53:36 -07:00
filemap_xip.c mm: do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation 2009-04-02 19:04:49 -07:00
fremap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
highmem.c mm: introduce debug_kmap_atomic 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: chg cannot become less than 0 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
internal.h nommu: there is no mlock() for NOMMU, so don't provide the bits 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
Kconfig nommu: make CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU available when CONFIG_MMU=n 2009-04-01 08:59:15 -07:00
Kconfig.debug generic debug pagealloc: build fix 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
Makefile generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: cleanup cache_charge 2009-04-02 19:04:56 -07:00
memory.c mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: remove GFP_HIGHUSER_PAGECACHE 2009-01-06 15:59:01 -08:00
mempolicy.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28 2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
mempool.c
migrate.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
mincore.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-02-17 14:27:39 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelists 2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
mprotect.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
mremap.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
oom_kill.c memcg: show memcg information during OOM 2009-04-02 19:04:55 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage" 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
page_alloc.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask 2009-04-05 10:33:07 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: remove redundant message at swapon 2009-04-02 19:04:56 -07:00
page_io.c block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC 2009-02-18 10:32:00 +01:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c mm: fix pdflush thread creation upper bound 2009-04-07 08:31:03 -07:00
percpu.c percpu: generalize embedding first chunk setup helper 2009-03-10 16:27:48 +09:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node. 2009-03-13 14:49:46 +10:30
readahead.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
rmap.c mm: fix mlocked page counter mismatch 2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
shmem.c shmem: writepage directly to swap 2009-04-01 08:59:15 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
slab.c Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-06 13:30:00 -07:00
slob.c kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects 2009-04-03 12:23:10 +02:00
slub.c kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects 2009-04-03 12:23:10 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c vmemmap: warn about page_structs with remote distance 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
sparse.c mm: mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(): remove redundant test 2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
swap.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
swap_state.c memcg: mem+swap controller core 2009-01-08 08:31:05 -08:00
swapfile.c PM/hibernate: fix "swap breaks after hibernation failures" 2009-02-21 14:17:17 -08:00
thrash.c
truncate.c FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache management 2009-04-03 16:42:36 +01:00
util.c kmemtrace: use tracepoints 2009-04-03 12:23:06 +02:00
vmalloc.c vmap: remove needless lock and list in vmap 2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
vmscan.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask 2009-04-05 10:33:07 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: align vmstat_work's timer 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00