The patch titled page allocator: get the pageblock migratetype without disabling interrupts has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is page-allocator-get-the-pageblock-migratetype-without-disabling-interrupts.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: page allocator: get the pageblock migratetype without disabling interrupts From: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Local interrupts are disabled when freeing pages to the PCP list. Part of that free checks what the migratetype of the pageblock the page is in but it checks this with interrupts disabled and interupts should never be disabled longer than necessary. This patch checks the pagetype with interrupts enabled with the impact that it is possible a page is freed to the wrong list when a pageblock changes type. As that block is now already considered mixed from an anti-fragmentation perspective, it's not of vital importance. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-get-the-pageblock-migratetype-without-disabling-interrupts mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~page-allocator-get-the-pageblock-migratetype-without-disabling-interrupts +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1034,6 +1034,7 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct pa kernel_map_pages(page, 1, 0); pcp = &zone_pcp(zone, get_cpu())->pcp; + set_page_private(page, get_pageblock_migratetype(page)); local_irq_save(flags); if (unlikely(clearMlocked)) free_page_mlock(page); @@ -1043,7 +1044,6 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct pa list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pcp->list); else list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->list); - set_page_private(page, get_pageblock_migratetype(page)); pcp->count++; if (pcp->count >= pcp->high) { free_pages_bulk(zone, pcp->batch, &pcp->list, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mel@xxxxxxxxx are vmscan-low-order-lumpy-reclaim-also-should-use-pageout_io_sync.patch page-allocator-replace-__alloc_pages_internal-with-__alloc_pages_nodemask.patch page-allocator-do-not-sanity-check-order-in-the-fast-path.patch page-allocator-do-not-sanity-check-order-in-the-fast-path-fix.patch page-allocator-do-not-check-numa-node-id-when-the-caller-knows-the-node-is-valid.patch page-allocator-check-only-once-if-the-zonelist-is-suitable-for-the-allocation.patch page-allocator-break-up-the-allocator-entry-point-into-fast-and-slow-paths.patch page-allocator-move-check-for-disabled-anti-fragmentation-out-of-fastpath.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-preferred-zone-for-allocation-only-once-fix.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-migratetype-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-calculate-the-alloc_flags-for-allocation-only-once.patch page-allocator-remove-a-branch-by-assuming-__gfp_high-==-alloc_high.patch page-allocator-inline-__rmqueue_smallest.patch page-allocator-inline-buffered_rmqueue.patch page-allocator-inline-__rmqueue_fallback.patch page-allocator-do-not-call-get_pageblock_migratetype-more-than-necessary.patch page-allocator-do-not-disable-interrupts-in-free_page_mlock.patch page-allocator-do-not-setup-zonelist-cache-when-there-is-only-one-node.patch page-allocator-do-not-check-for-compound-pages-during-the-page-allocator-sanity-checks.patch page-allocator-use-allocation-flags-as-an-index-to-the-zone-watermark.patch page-allocator-update-nr_free_pages-only-as-necessary.patch page-allocator-get-the-pageblock-migratetype-without-disabling-interrupts.patch page-allocator-use-a-pre-calculated-value-instead-of-num_online_nodes-in-fast-paths.patch page-allocator-slab-use-nr_online_nodes-to-check-for-a-numa-platform.patch add-debugging-aid-for-memory-initialisation-problems.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