[PATCH] mm: background scan
Add a background scanning timer to restore the watermarks to the pages_lots
level and only call on it if kswapd has not been called upon for the last 5
seconds. This allows us to balance all zones to the more generous pages_lots
watermark at a time unrelated to page allocation thus leading to lighter
levels of vm load when called upon under page allocation.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>

The -ck patches modify mm/vmscan.c and add a timer to wake up kswapd every 5
seconds. This timer is initialized after the creation of the kswapd thread.

The kswapd() thread function calls mod_timer at the front of its infinite
service loop (to reset the timer to 5 seconds in the future). mod_timer()
includes a BUG_ON() to assert that the timer's callback function is set.

Since the wakeup timer is initialized after the kswapd thread is created, if
kswapd gets scheduled before kswapd_run() has prepared the timer, the
BUG_ON() check will throw a stack trace and immediately terminate the kswapd
thread.

This patch modifies the kswapd_run() function in mm/vmscan.c to initialize the
watermark timer before starting the kswapd thread.

Signed-off-by: Chase Venters <chase.venters at clientec.com>

-ck