mod_zone_page_state() takes a "delta" integer argument. delta contains
the number of pages that should be added or subtracted from a struct
zone's vm_stat field.
If a zone is larger than 8TB this will cause overflows. E.g. for a
zone with a size slightly larger than 8TB the line
mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_ALLOC_BATCH, zone->managed_pages);
in mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_core() will result in a negative
result for the NR_ALLOC_BATCH entry within the zone's vm_stat, since
8TB contain 0x8xxxxxxx pages which will be sign extended to a negative
value.
Fix this by changing the delta argument to long type.
This could fix an early boot problem seen on s390, where we have a 9TB
system with only one node. ZONE_DMA contains 2GB and ZONE_NORMAL the
rest. The system is trying to allocate a GFP_DMA page but ZONE_DMA is
completely empty, so it tries to reclaim pages in an endless loop.
This was seen on a heavily patched 3.10 kernel. One possible
explaination seem to be the overflows caused by mod_zone_page_state().
Unfortunately I did not have the chance to verify that this patch
actually fixes the problem, since I don't have access to the system
right now. However the overflow problem does exist anyway.
Given the description that a system with slightly less than 8TB does
work, this seems to be a candidate for the observed problem.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/vmstat.h | 6 +++---
mm/vmstat.c | 10 +++++-----
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index 5dbc8b0ee567..3e5d9075960f 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ extern void zone_statistics(struct zone *, struct zone *, gfp_t gfp);
#define sub_zone_page_state(__z, __i, __d) mod_zone_page_state(__z, __i, -(__d))
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item item, int);
+void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item item, long);
void __inc_zone_page_state(struct page *, enum zone_stat_item);
void __dec_zone_page_state(struct page *, enum zone_stat_item);
-void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item, int);
+void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item, long);
void inc_zone_page_state(struct page *, enum zone_stat_item);
void dec_zone_page_state(struct page *, enum zone_stat_item);
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
* The functions directly modify the zone and global counters.
*/
static inline void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone,
- enum zone_stat_item item, int delta)
+ enum zone_stat_item item, long delta)
{
zone_page_state_add(delta, zone, item);
}
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 0d5712b0206c..4ebc17d948cb 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat,
* particular counter cannot be updated from interrupt context.
*/
void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
- int delta)
+ long delta)
{
struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pcp = zone->pageset;
s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dec_zone_page_state);
* 1 Overstepping half of threshold
* -1 Overstepping minus half of threshold
*/
-static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone,
- enum zone_stat_item item, int delta, int overstep_mode)
+static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
+ long delta, int overstep_mode)
{
struct per_cpu_pageset __percpu *pcp = zone->pageset;
s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static inline void mod_state(struct zone *zone,
}
void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
- int delta)
+ long delta)
{
mod_state(zone, item, delta, 0);
}
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dec_zone_page_state);
* Use interrupt disable to serialize counter updates
*/
void mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
- int delta)
+ long delta)
{
unsigned long flags;
--
2.3.9
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