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mm: compaction: clean up comment for sched contention

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Since commit cf66f0700c ("mm, compaction: do not consider a need to
reschedule as contention"), async compaction won't abort when scheduling
is needed.  Correct the relevant comment accordingly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220418141253.24298-5-linmiaohe@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Charan Teja Kalla <charante@codeaurora.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Pintu Kumar <pintu@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Miaohe Lin 2022-04-28 23:16:17 -07:00 committed by akpm
parent 00bc102f82
commit d56c15845a
2 changed files with 5 additions and 8 deletions
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mm/compaction.c
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@ -513,15 +513,12 @@ static bool compact_lock_irqsave(spinlock_t *lock, unsigned long *flags,
* very heavily contended. The lock should be periodically unlocked to avoid
* having disabled IRQs for a long time, even when there is nobody waiting on
* the lock. It might also be that allowing the IRQs will result in
* need_resched() becoming true. If scheduling is needed, async compaction
* aborts. Sync compaction schedules.
* need_resched() becoming true. If scheduling is needed, compaction schedules.
* Either compaction type will also abort if a fatal signal is pending.
* In either case if the lock was locked, it is dropped and not regained.
*
* Returns true if compaction should abort due to fatal signal pending, or
* async compaction due to need_resched()
* Returns false when compaction can continue (sync compaction might have
* scheduled)
* Returns true if compaction should abort due to fatal signal pending.
* Returns false when compaction can continue.
*/
static bool compact_unlock_should_abort(spinlock_t *lock,
unsigned long flags, bool *locked, struct compact_control *cc)
@ -574,7 +571,7 @@ static unsigned long isolate_freepages_block(struct compact_control *cc,
/*
* Periodically drop the lock (if held) regardless of its
* contention, to give chance to IRQs. Abort if fatal signal
* pending or async compaction detects need_resched()
* pending.
*/
if (!(blockpfn % SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX)
&& compact_unlock_should_abort(&cc->zone->lock, flags,

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mm/internal.h
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@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ struct compact_control {
bool direct_compaction; /* False from kcompactd or /proc/... */
bool proactive_compaction; /* kcompactd proactive compaction */
bool whole_zone; /* Whole zone should/has been scanned */
bool contended; /* Signal lock or sched contention */
bool contended; /* Signal lock contention */
bool rescan; /* Rescanning the same pageblock */
bool alloc_contig; /* alloc_contig_range allocation */
};