Linux-libre 4.8.7-gnupck-4.8.7-gnu

6 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 3bfed5ab2..8fde443f3 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ static int wb_init(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 	spin_lock_init(&wb->work_lock);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->work_list);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&wb->dwork, wb_workfn);
-	wb->dirty_sleep = jiffies;
 
 	wb->congested = wb_congested_get_create(bdi, blkcg_id, gfp);
 	if (!wb->congested)
diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c
index 1d05cb9d3..234676e31 100644
--- a/mm/list_lru.c
+++ b/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -554,6 +554,8 @@ int __list_lru_init(struct list_lru *lru, bool memcg_aware,
 	err = memcg_init_list_lru(lru, memcg_aware);
 	if (err) {
 		kfree(lru->node);
+		/* Do this so a list_lru_destroy() doesn't crash: */
+		lru->node = NULL;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4be518d4e..dddead146 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1947,6 +1947,15 @@ retry:
 		     current->flags & PF_EXITING))
 		goto force;
 
+	/*
+	 * Prevent unbounded recursion when reclaim operations need to
+	 * allocate memory. This might exceed the limits temporarily,
+	 * but we prefer facilitating memory reclaim and getting back
+	 * under the limit over triggering OOM kills in these cases.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+		goto force;
+
 	if (unlikely(task_in_memcg_oom(current)))
 		goto nomem;
 
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 56be15224..1aeb51d24 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1786,7 +1786,6 @@ pause:
 					  pause,
 					  start_time);
 		__set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
-		wb->dirty_sleep = now;
 		io_schedule_timeout(pause);
 
 		current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause;
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index b67271024..525a91198 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ static int setup_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
 	 * guaranteed to be valid until irq is re-enabled, because it will be
 	 * freed after synchronize_sched().
 	 */
-	if (force_change)
+	if (old_shared && force_change)
 		synchronize_sched();
 
 fail:
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0fe8b7113..ba0fad78e 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3048,7 +3048,9 @@ unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 					    sc.gfp_mask,
 					    sc.reclaim_idx);
 
+	current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
 	nr_reclaimed = do_try_to_free_pages(zonelist, &sc);
+	current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
 
 	trace_mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end(nr_reclaimed);