The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-fix-regression-with-deferred-struct-page-init.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-regression-with-deferred-struct-page-init.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-regression-with-deferred-struct-page-init.patch
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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: fix regression with deferred struct page init
0e56acae4b4dd4a9 ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of
doing larger sections") is causing a regression on some systems when the
kernel is booted as Xen dom0.
The system will just hang in early boot.
Reason is an endless loop in get_page_from_freelist() in case the first
zone looked at has no free memory. deferred_grow_zone() is always
returning true due to the following code snipplet:
/* If the zone is empty somebody else may have cleared out the zone */
if (!deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn,
first_deferred_pfn)) {
pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
return true;
}
This in turn results in the loop as get_page_from_freelist() is assuming
forward progress can be made by doing some more struct page
initialization.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620160821.4210-1-jgross@xxxxxxxx
Fixes: 0e56acae4b4dd4a9 ("mm: initialize MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES at a time instead of doing larger sections")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-fix-regression-with-deferred-struct-page-init
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1826,7 +1826,8 @@ deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, un
first_deferred_pfn)) {
pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
- return true;
+ /* Retry only once. */
+ return first_deferred_pfn != ULONG_MAX;
}
/*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jgross@xxxxxxxx are
mm-fix-regression-with-deferred-struct-page-init.patch
