[added to the 3.18 stable tree] mm, cma: prevent nr_isolated_* counters from going negative

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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

===============

[ Upstream commit 14af4a5e9b26ad251f81c174e8a43f3e179434a5 ]

/proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh warns nr_isolated_anon and nr_isolated_file go
increasingly negative under compaction: which would add delay when
should be none, or no delay when should delay.  The bug in compaction
was due to a recent mmotm patch, but much older instance of the bug was
also noticed in isolate_migratepages_range() which is used for CMA and
gigantic hugepage allocations.

The bug is caused by putback_movable_pages() in an error path
decrementing the isolated counters without them being previously
incremented by acct_isolated().  Fix isolate_migratepages_range() by
removing the error-path putback, thus reaching acct_isolated() with
migratepages still isolated, and leaving putback to caller like most
other places do.

Fixes: edc2ca612496 ("mm, compaction: move pageblock checks up from isolate_migratepages_range()")
[vbabka@xxxxxxx: expanded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index b47f08e..8d010df 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -784,16 +784,8 @@ isolate_migratepages_range(struct compact_control *cc, unsigned long start_pfn,
 		pfn = isolate_migratepages_block(cc, pfn, block_end_pfn,
 							ISOLATE_UNEVICTABLE);
 
-		/*
-		 * In case of fatal failure, release everything that might
-		 * have been isolated in the previous iteration, and signal
-		 * the failure back to caller.
-		 */
-		if (!pfn) {
-			putback_movable_pages(&cc->migratepages);
-			cc->nr_migratepages = 0;
+		if (!pfn)
 			break;
-		}
 
 		if (cc->nr_migratepages == COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX)
 			break;
-- 
2.5.0

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