The patch titled
Subject: mm: Fix buddy list helpers
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers-fix.patch
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: Fix buddy list helpers
Tetsuo reports that free page statistics are not reporting correctly, and
Vlastimil noticed that "mm: Move buddy list manipulations into helpers"
botched one of its conversions of add_to_free_area(). Fix the
double-increment of ->nr_free.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155033679702.1773410.13041474192173212653.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers-fix
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1901,7 +1901,6 @@ static inline void expand(struct zone *z
continue;
add_to_free_area(&page[size], area, migratetype);
- area->nr_free++;
set_page_order(&page[size], high);
}
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-shuffle-initial-free-memory-to-improve-memory-side-cache-utilization.patch
mm-shuffle-initial-free-memory-to-improve-memory-side-cache-utilization-fix.patch
mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers.patch
mm-move-buddy-list-manipulations-into-helpers-fix.patch
mm-maintain-randomization-of-page-free-lists.patch
