The patch titled Subject: mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-compaction-skip-over-holes-in-__reset_isolation_suitable.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-compaction-skip-over-holes-in-__reset_isolation_suitable.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-compaction-skip-over-holes-in-__reset_isolation_suitable.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable __reset_isolation_suitable walks the whole zone pfn range and it tries to jump over holes by checking the zone for each page. It might still stumble over offline pages, though. Skip those by checking pfn_to_online_page() Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515085827.16474-9-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tobias Regnery <tobias.regnery@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-skip-over-holes-in-__reset_isolation_suitable mm/compaction.c --- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-skip-over-holes-in-__reset_isolation_suitable +++ a/mm/compaction.c @@ -236,10 +236,9 @@ static void __reset_isolation_suitable(s cond_resched(); - if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) + page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn); + if (!page) continue; - - page = pfn_to_page(pfn); if (zone != page_zone(page)) continue; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are mm-remove-return-value-from-init_currently_empty_zone.patch mm-memory_hotplug-use-node-instead-of-zone-in-can_online_high_movable.patch mm-drop-page_initialized-check-from-get_nid_for_pfn.patch mm-memory_hotplug-get-rid-of-is_zone_device_section.patch mm-memory_hotplug-split-up-register_one_node.patch mm-memory_hotplug-consider-offline-memblocks-removable.patch mm-consider-zone-which-is-not-fully-populated-to-have-holes.patch mm-compaction-skip-over-holes-in-__reset_isolation_suitable.patch mm-__first_valid_page-skip-over-offline-pages.patch mm-vmstat-skip-reporting-offline-pages-in-pagetypeinfo.patch mm-memory_hotplug-do-not-associate-hotadded-memory-to-zones-until-online.patch mm-memory_hotplug-replace-for_device-by-want_memblock-in-arch_add_memory.patch mm-memory_hotplug-fix-the-section-mismatch-warning.patch mm-memory_hotplug-remove-unused-cruft-after-memory-hotplug-rework.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html