While merging buddy free pages of a given order to make a higher order page, the buddy allocator might coalesce pages belonging to *two* *different* migratetypes of that order! So, don't assume that both the buddies come from the same freelist; instead, explicitly find out the migratetype info of the buddy page and use it while merging the buddies. Also, set the freepage migratetype of the buddy to the new one. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e31daf4..c40715c 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -685,10 +685,14 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, __mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, 1 << order, migratetype); } else { + int mt; + area = &zone->free_area[order]; - del_from_freelist(buddy, &area->free_list[migratetype]); + mt = get_freepage_migratetype(buddy); + del_from_freelist(buddy, &area->free_list[mt]); area->nr_free--; rmv_page_order(buddy); + set_freepage_migratetype(buddy, migratetype); } combined_idx = buddy_idx & page_idx; page = page + (combined_idx - page_idx); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>