The patch titled Subject: mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.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: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists When online_pages() is called to add new memory to an empty zone, it rebuilds all zone lists by calling build_all_zonelists(). But there's a bug which prevents the new zone to be added to other nodes' zone lists. online_pages() { build_all_zonelists() ..... node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY) } Here the node of the zone is put into N_HIGH_MEMORY state after calling build_all_zonelists(), but build_all_zonelists() only adds zones from nodes in N_HIGH_MEMORY state to the fallback zone lists. build_all_zonelists() ->__build_all_zonelists() ->build_zonelists() ->find_next_best_node() ->for_each_node_state(n, N_HIGH_MEMORY) So memory in the new zone will never be used by other nodes, and it may cause strange behavor when system is under memory pressure. So put node into N_HIGH_MEMORY state before calling build_all_zonelists(). Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Keping Chen <chenkeping@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists mm/memory_hotplug.c --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists +++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -512,19 +512,20 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn zone->present_pages += onlined_pages; zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += onlined_pages; - if (need_zonelists_rebuild) - build_all_zonelists(NULL, zone); - else - zone_pcp_update(zone); + if (onlined_pages) { + node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY); + if (need_zonelists_rebuild) + build_all_zonelists(NULL, zone); + else + zone_pcp_update(zone); + } mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); init_per_zone_wmark_min(); - if (onlined_pages) { + if (onlined_pages) kswapd_run(zone_to_nid(zone)); - node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY); - } vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages(); _ Subject: Subject: mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists Patches currently in -mm which might be from jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch memory-hotplug-fix-invalid-memory-access-caused-by-stale-kswapd-pointer.patch memory-hotplug-fix-invalid-memory-access-caused-by-stale-kswapd-pointer-fix.patch mm-hotplug-correctly-setup-fallback-zonelists-when-creating-new-pgdat.patch mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch mm-hotplug-free-zone-pageset-when-a-zone-becomes-empty.patch mm-hotplug-mark-memory-hotplug-code-in-page_allocc-as-__meminit.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