rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:55:36 +0000 (04:55 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:07:57 +0000 (14:07 -0800)
commit878d7439d0f45a95869e417576774673d1fa243f
treebf16331cb2e31ab00fe69d91755b7ac6ccb6a7d6
parent62da1921292ef789c23a7bf01d671d7572baf377
rcu: Fix batch-limit size problem

Commit 29c00b4a1d9e27 (rcu: Add event-tracing for RCU callback
invocation) added a regression in rcu_do_batch()

Under stress, RCU is supposed to allow to process all items in queue,
instead of a batch of 10 items (blimit), but an integer overflow makes
the effective limit being 1.  So, unless there is frequent idle periods
(during which RCU ignores batch limits), RCU can be forced into a
state where it cannot keep up with the callback-generation rate,
eventually resulting in OOM.

This commit therefore converts a few variables in rcu_do_batch() from
int to long to fix this problem, along with the module parameters
controlling the batch limits.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.2 +
kernel/rcutree.c
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