The patch titled
Subject: mm, page_alloc: Check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks -fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks-fix.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, page_alloc: Check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks -fix
Vlastimil Babka pointed out that the original code was protected by
the zone lock and provided a fix.
This is a fix to the mmotm patch
mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch . Once
applied the following line should be removed from the changelog "Technically
this is race-prone but so is the existing code."
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks-fix mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -831,9 +831,10 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zo
int batch_free = 0;
int to_free = count;
unsigned long nr_scanned;
- bool isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone);
+ bool isolated_pageblocks;
spin_lock(&zone->lock);
+ isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone);
nr_scanned = zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED);
if (nr_scanned)
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, -nr_scanned);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-only-check-pagecompound-for-high-order-pages.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-zone_statistics.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-the-fast-path-of-the-zonelist-iterator.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-__dec_zone_state-for-order-0-page-allocation.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-unnecessary-zone-lookups-during-pageblock-operations.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-alloc_flags-to-unsigned.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-nr_fair_skipped-to-bool.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-in-get_page_from_freelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-initialisation-in-get_page_from_freelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-initialisation-from-__alloc_pages_nodemask.patch
mm-page_alloc-simplify-last-cpupid-reset.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-__gfp_hardwall-modifications-out-of-the-fastpath.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-shorten-the-page-allocator-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-cost-of-fair-zone-allocation-policy-retry.patch
mm-page_alloc-shortcut-watermark-checks-for-order-0-pages.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-looking-up-the-first-zone-in-a-zonelist-twice.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-field-from-alloc_context.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-multiple-page-fields-with-a-single-branch.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-variable-from-free_pcppages_bulk.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-pageblock-lookup-in-page-free-fast-paths.patch
mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-freed-pages-until-a-pcp-drain.patch
mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-pages-allocated-from-the-pcp.patch
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