This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1bdb24f5ab52e64658f496a0dbfe04ffb56edaf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:43:30 -0700
Subject: mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -515,19 +515,20 @@ 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(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(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();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch
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