[PATCH 05/10] UBIFS: fix shrinker object count reports
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 3 09:49:56 EDT 2011
From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
Sometimes VM asks the shrinker to return amount of objects it can shrink,
and we return the ubifs_clean_zn_cnt in that case. However, it is possible
that this counter is negative for a short period of time, due to the way
UBIFS TNC code updates it. And I can observe the following warnings sometimes:
shrink_slab: ubifs_shrinker+0x0/0x2b7 [ubifs] negative objects to delete nr=-8541616642706119788
This patch makes sure UBIFS never returns negative count of objects.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
---
fs/ubifs/shrinker.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c b/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
index ca953a9..dfc105a 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/shrinker.c
@@ -284,7 +284,11 @@ int ubifs_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc)
long clean_zn_cnt = atomic_long_read(&ubifs_clean_zn_cnt);
if (nr == 0)
- return clean_zn_cnt;
+ /*
+ * Due to the way UBIFS updates the clean znode counter it may
+ * temporarily be negative.
+ */
+ return clean_zn_cnt > 0 ?: 1;
if (!clean_zn_cnt) {
/*
--
1.7.2.3
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