From: KOSAKI Motohiro on
If number of reclaimable slabs are zero, shrink_icache_memory() and
shrink_dcache_memory() return 0. but strangely shrink_slab() ignore
it and continue meaningless loop iteration.

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0f9f624..8f61adb 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask,
int nr_before;

nr_before = (*shrinker->shrink)(0, gfp_mask);
+ /* no slab objects, no more reclaim. */
+ if (nr_before == 0) {
+ total_scan = 0;
+ break;
+ }
shrink_ret = (*shrinker->shrink)(this_scan, gfp_mask);
if (shrink_ret == -1)
break;
--
1.6.5.2



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