mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow

At the end of a window period, if the reclaimed pages is greater than
scanned, an unsigned underflow can result in a huge pressure value and
thus a critical event.  Reclaimed pages is found to go higher than
scanned because of the addition of reclaimed slab pages to reclaimed in
shrink_node without a corresponding increment to scanned pages.

Minchan Kim mentioned that this can also happen in the case of a THP
page where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed could be 512.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
Cc: Shiraz Hashim <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index 149fdf6c5c56..6063581f705c 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -112,9 +112,16 @@ static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_calc_level(unsigned long scanned,
 						    unsigned long reclaimed)
 {
 	unsigned long scale = scanned + reclaimed;
-	unsigned long pressure;
+	unsigned long pressure = 0;
 
 	/*
+	 * reclaimed can be greater than scanned in cases
+	 * like THP, where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed
+	 * could be 512
+	 */
+	if (reclaimed >= scanned)
+		goto out;
+	/*
 	 * We calculate the ratio (in percents) of how many pages were
 	 * scanned vs. reclaimed in a given time frame (window). Note that
 	 * time is in VM reclaimer's "ticks", i.e. number of pages
@@ -124,6 +131,7 @@ static enum vmpressure_levels vmpressure_calc_level(unsigned long scanned,
 	pressure = scale - (reclaimed * scale / scanned);
 	pressure = pressure * 100 / scale;
 
+out:
 	pr_debug("%s: %3lu  (s: %lu  r: %lu)\n", __func__, pressure,
 		 scanned, reclaimed);